James Willis Patterson {2 July 1823 - 4 May 1893}: representative and senator from New Hampshire. Patterson was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, where he attended school before enrolling at Dartmouth College {Hanover, New Hampshire}. After graduating in 1848 he taught in an academy at Woodstock, Connecticut, for two years, and then in 1854 became a professor at Dartmouth. During his tenure at Dartmouth {until 1865}, he held several public offices in Hanover. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1862, and the following year was elected a Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress, with reelection to the thirty-ninth. In 1867 he was elected to the Senate, where he served until 1873. Patterson then became regent of the Smithsonian Institution until he returned to Dartmouth to teach once more. He served again in the state house of representatives, was state superintendent of public instruction, and president of the American Institution of Instruction. Patterson died in Hanover, New Hampshire. John James Patterson {8 August 1830 - 28 September 1912}: senator from South Carolina. Patterson was born in Waterloo, Pennsylvania, where he attended school before entering Jefferson College in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1848 and went into journalism; he soon became publisher of the Juniata Sentinel and later editor and part owner of the Harrisburg Telegraph. In 1854 Patterson became a member of the state house of representatives, where he served two years. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in 1856, and again in Chicago in 1860. During the Civil War Patterson served as a captain in the Fifteenth United Sates Volunteer Infantry; after he returned to Pennsylvania to run unsuccessfully for Thirty- eighth Congress in 1862. In 1869 he moved to Columbia, South Carolina, and went into railroad construction. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1873 and served until 1879; he then chose to go back into business: first in Washington, D. C., and then in 1886, in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, where he specialized in the construction of electric railways and lighting plants. He died in Mifflintown.