Francis Ford Patterson, Jr. {30 July 1867 - 30 November 1935}: representative from New Jersey. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Patterson moved with his parents to Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1874, where he attended local schools. At thirteen he went to work in a newspaper office; at sixteen he moved to Camden, New Jersey, and worked for the Camden Courier. In 1890 he became New Jersey editor for the Philadelphia Record, and in 1894 he bought the Camden Post - Telegram, which he continued to publish for the next twenty-nine years. In 1900 Patterson sat in the state assembly of New Jersey; from 1900 to 1920 he served as Camden County clerk. Patterson was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in 1920, and on the death of Representative William J. Browning, he was elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill that seat. He was reelected to the next three Congresses, and served from 1920 to 1927. In 1926, unsuccessful in his attempt for renomination, he retired from politics to become president of the West Jersey Parkside Trust Company in Camden. Patterson died in Merchantville, New Jersey.