William Patterson {1790- 17 August 1868}: representative from Ohio. Patterson was born in Maryland and moved to Mansfield, Ohio, where he attended high school and studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Mansfield, where he held many local offices. He was associate judge of the court of common pleas in 1820 and 1827, and was elected a Democrat to the Twenty-third Congress in 1833. He won reelection for the following term, then retired from public office. Patterson died in Van Wert, Ohio. George Washington Patterson {11 November 1799-15 October 1879}: representative from New York, and brother of William Patterson, also a representative from New York. Born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, Patterson attended Londonderry public schools and the Pinkerton Academy. In 1818 he moved to New York, where he settled in Genesee County and manufactured fanning mills. In 1825 he moved to Leicester, New York, and extended his efforts to farming and manufacturing farm tools. Patterson was Leicester commissioner of highways, justice of the peace, state assembly man and for several years speaker of the house, and basin commissioner. In 1841 he moved to Westfield, New York, where he administered the Chautauqua land office. In 1847 he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention, and in 1848 he was elected lieutenant governor of New York. Patterson continued to serve in various public offices after he left the position of lieutenant governor, including chairman of the harbor commission, quarantine commissioner of the Port of New York, and supervisor and president of the board of education. In 1856 he was delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, and again in 1860 in Chicago. Patterson was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress {1877 to 1879}; he did not run for reelection, but retired to Westfield, where he died.