Education
Born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, Patton attended the Collegiate Institute, Waveland, Indiana. He graduated from the Chicago Medical College in 1867 and practiced medicine in Remington, Indiana.
United States representative politician
Born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, Patton attended the Collegiate Institute, Waveland, Indiana. He graduated from the Chicago Medical College in 1867 and practiced medicine in Remington, Indiana.
Pension examiner at Remington 1886-1890. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1892 and 1900. Patton was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1892.
He moved to Woodward, Woodward County, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in 1893. He was appointed receiver of public lands for Oklahoma in 1893, and later resumed the practice of medicine.
He was appointed pension examiner at Woodward. He died in Otterbein, Indiana, on January 17, 1914.
He was interred in Remington Cemetery, Remington, Indiana.
He served as member of the district board of health of Woodward, Oklahoma.