The Republican Party, which was embroiled in a power struggle between Walter P. Brownlow and Newell Sanders, initially nominated two candidates, T. Asbury Wright (Brownlow's candidate) and George Tillman (Sanders's candidate), but Wright eventually withdrew.
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In October 1908, a feud between the West Tennessee Land Company and Obion County residents over control of Reelfoot Lake resulted in two of the company's officers, Quentin Rankin and Robert Z. Taylor, being kidnapped by a vigilante group known as the Night Riders.
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It was there that he encountered the young Raymond M. Patterson who brought him attention in his book "The Dangerous River" and attracted 3 documentaries.
Nearly half came from a few millionaires such as William H. Regnery, H. Smith Richardson of the Vick Chemical Company, General Robert E. Wood of Sears-Roebuck, Sterling Morton of Morton Salt Company, publisher Joseph M. Patterson (New York Daily News) and his cousin, publisher Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune).
H. (Cecil Holden) Patterson (June 22, 1912 – May 26, 2006) was born in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Since that time CaribPress has profiled notable figures from a variety of professions including former Jamaican Prime Minister P. J. Patterson, television executive Paula Madison, Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks and businessman Butch Stewart.
In 1978 Tennessee governor Ray Blanton signed into law a state senate resolution naming Patterson the father of karate in Tennessee.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Rensselaer Co., 1st D.) in 1881 and 1882; and was elected Speaker on February 2, 1882, after a month-long struggle of the different factions of the Democratic Party.
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He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Troy, New York where he became a partner in the firm of David L. Seymour whose daughter he married.
In 1872, the House of Representatives submitted the names of nine politicians to the Senate for investigation: Senators William B. Allison (R-IA), James A. Bayard, Jr. (D-DE), George S. Boutwell (R-MA), Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), James Harlan (R-IA), John Logan (R-IL), James W. Patterson (R-NH), and Henry Wilson (R-MA); and Vice President Schuyler Colfax (R-IN).
Pawlicki and Jerry L. Patterson co-developed PARR (Patterson Rhythm Roll) in 1997, which claims to be the first course on how to set and control dice.
Donald D. Patterson (1911–?), businessman and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
Patterson was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the 81st United States Congress in 1948, and resumed the practice of law.
He was promoted to brigadier general in the United States Volunteers on April 11, 1862 and placed in command of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, III Corps, Army of the Potomac.
Francis F. Patterson, Jr. (1867–1935), American Republican Party politician
In June 1835, Moore resigned his post as director, and was replaced by Robert M. Patterson.
The school began as a grammar school in 1854 and was turned into a high school in 1871 and was known as Windsor Collegiate Institute until 1929, when it was renamed, J.C. Patterson, after a Windsor lawyer and Politician.
After resigning from office to accept a judgeship appointment from the Governor of Tennessee, Lamar Alexander, Chandler was succeeded by two interim mayors: first by J.O. Patterson, Jr. (the first-ever African-American to serve in the office), then by Wallace Madewell.
He practiced law and then became active in state and local political life as a State Representative for one term, a State Senator for two terms, a Memphis City Councilman for five terms and interim Mayor of Memphis (for 20 days total) in 1982, following the resignation of J. Wyeth Chandler (the first African-American to ever hold the office); after the statutory 20 days, he was succeeded by Wallace Madewell for a short period.
In retaliation, Prime Minister P. J. Patterson announced the government would no longer negotiate with "non-legal entities."
He was presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-fifth Congress and served as United States Representative for the first district from March 4, 1877, until December 13, 1877, when he was succeeded by Thomas M. Patterson, who contested his election.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress, for election in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress, and in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress.
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Patterson was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1959).
In the 2002 Republican primary for Texas land commissioner, Patterson defeated Kenn George of Dallas, a member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 108 and an assistant secretary of commerce in the administration of U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan.
He served as chairman of the Select Committee on Committee Reform (Ninety-sixth Congress), and chaired the House Subcommittee on International Development Finance in the Ninety-seventh and Ninety-eighth Congress.
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In 1996 Patterson returned to elective office when he won a seat on the Coast Community College District Board of Trustees where he continues to serve on the college board for Orange Coast College, Golden West College and Coastline Community College.
Jerry E. Patterson (born 1946), Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas, USA
John W. Patterson (1872–?), nicknamed Pat, African American baseball player and team manager 1893–1907
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John J. Patterson (1830–1912), U.S. senator from South Carolina, 1873–1879
Patterson debuted with the Lincoln, Nebraska Giants of 1890, a black team, and played for the Plattsmouth club in the Nebraska State League during the 1892 season, before the baseball color line was sharply drawn.
Patterson was elected as a Democrat to the 70th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William B. Bowling.
She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 4th congressional district in 1986, succeeding Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., who had given up the seat to make a successful run for Governor of South Carolina.
Beginning as one room above the Parkway Movie Theater off Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland, the Museum eventually expanded to its present site in the former Burke Mansion (architect: Daniel J. Patterson) down the road from the Claremont Resort and Spa in Berkeley.
John H. Patterson, President of the National Cash Register Corporation (NCR), vowed to keep Army aviation in Dayton and began a local campaign to raise money to purchase a tract of land large enough for a new airfield.
On 14 August 1918 he volunteered for a rescue operation into no man's land to save his company commander, Robert P. Patterson.
Silvermaster denied any Communist links and appealed to Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson to overrule the security officials.
Patterson was interested in ciphers and regularly exchanged coded correspondence with Thomas Jefferson.
Other offices Patterson held included president of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, clerk of the Superior Court, justice of the peace, Indian commissioner, trustee of the University of North Carolina, and various positions with the Masons.
He and his wife bequeathed Palmyra to the Episcopal Church as a school, which operated as The Patterson School from 1909 through 2009.
Samuel L. Patterson (1850–1908), North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture
George Gaylord Simpson was elected as the Society's first President, with E. B. Babcock, Emerson, and J. T. Patterson as his Vice-presidents and Ernst Mayr as secretary.
A group of prominent South Carolina Republicans, notably Senator John J. Patterson and Robert B. Elliott, organized an opposition to Governor Chamberlain prior to the state convention.
In November 1829, Susan became the wife of Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte-Patterson (1805–70), son of the King of Westphalia (Napoleon's youngest brother) and his American first wife, Elizabeth "Betsy" Patterson.
Thomas M. Patterson (1839–1916), United States Representative and Senator from Colorado
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Thomas H. Patterson (1820–1889), U.S. naval officer during the American Civil War
On September 29, 2010, Chevron, Atlantic Richfield, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil, which held the remaining Twichell papers, donated the surveys to the office of General Land Commissioner Jerry E. Patterson.