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Patterson, James Willis

educator, state legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born July 2, 1823, in Henniker, N. H. In 1862 he served in the New Hampshire legislature; and was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the thirty-eighth congress. In 1864 he was appointed a regent of the Smithsonian institution, and was reappointed in 1865. He was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress; and in 1866 was elected a senator in congress for the term commencing in 1867 and ending in 1873.

He died May 4, 1893, in Hanover, N. H.; and his portrait hangs in the new library building of the state capitol.