He was born in Barnwell, South Carolina.[1] He attended private schools in town and also in Augusta, Georgia.[1] Later, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1886, and commenced practice in Barnwell, South Carolina.[1]
Patterson was a probate judge of Barnwell County, South Carolina 1888–1892[1] and a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives 1899–1904. He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1905 – March 3, 1911). After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of his profession in Barnwell, South Carolina where he died on October 25, 1911. He was buried in the Episcopal Cemetery.
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