Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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Patterson, James Willis

Patterson, James Willis, a Representative and a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Henniker, N.H., July 2, 1823; pursued classical studies; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1848; teacher in the academy at Woodstock, Conn., for two years; attended the Theological Seminary at New Haven, Conn.; professor in Dartmouth College from 1854 to 1865; held several local offices; member of the State house of representatives in 1862; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867); elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1873; Regent of the Smithsonian Institution; again a professor in Dartmouth College; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1877 and 1878; State superintendent of public instruction 1885-1893; president of the American Institute of Instruction; died in Hanover, Grafton County, N.H., May 4, 1893; interment in Dartmouth Cemetery.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Patterson, James Willis," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1657 Original Sources, accessed April 1, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KSSZD35PX3P2PPU.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Patterson, James Willis." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1657, Original Sources. 1 Apr. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KSSZD35PX3P2PPU.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Patterson, James Willis' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1657. Original Sources, retrieved 1 April 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KSSZD35PX3P2PPU.