William Patterson (Ohio)
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This article is about the U.S. Representative from Ohio. For the U.S. Representative from New York, see William Patterson (New York). For other uses, see William Patterson.
William Patterson (born 1790; died August 17, 1868) was a United States Representative from Ohio. Born in Maryland in 1790, he moved to Mansfield, Ohio, completed preparatory studies and studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced, and held several local offices. He was an associate judge of the court of common pleas in 1820 and 1827, and was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1833 to March 3, 1837. He died in Van Wert, Van Wert County in 1868. Interment was in Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield.
