John Patton (January 6, 1823 – December 23, 1897) was aU.S. Representative from theU.S. state ofPennsylvania. He was the father ofCharles Emory Patton, also a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1911–1915), Alexander Ennis Patton, Pennsylvania State Senator,John Patton Jr., aU.S. Senator fromMichigan (1894–1895), and the uncle ofWilliam Irvin Swoope, also a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1923–1927).

Patton was born inCovington Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania and moved toCurwensville, Pennsylvania in 1828. He attended the public schools and engaged in mercantile pursuits and lumbering 1844-1860.

He organized the First National Bank of Curwensville in 1864 and was elected its president. He then organized the Curwensville Bank, and was elected its president.

He was a delegate to theWhigNational Convention in1852 and to theRepublican National Convention in1860.

Patton was elected as aRepublican to theThirty-seventh Congress, serving from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1863. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in1862. He was again elected to theFiftieth Congress, serving from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1889. He was not a candidate for renomination in1888, after which he resumed banking.

Patton died inPhiladelphia, aged 74, where he had gone for medical treatment, and was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery, inCurwensville, Pennsylvania.

The town ofPatton, Pennsylvania is named for John Patton.^[1]

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