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Roscoe C. Patterson
For the U.S. Senator from New York whom this person was named after, see Roscoe Conkling .
Roscoe Conkling Patterson
(September 15 , 1876 - October 22 , 1954 ) was a United States Representative and Senator from Missouri . Born in Springfield, Missouri , he attended public and private schools, Drury College , (Springfield) and the University of Missouri at Columbia . He graduated from the law department of Washington University (St. Louis ) in 1897, was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Springfield. He was prosecuting attorney of Greene County from 1903 to 1907, and was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress, serving from March 4 , 1921 to March 3 , 1923 . He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress and resumed the practice of law in Springfield. He was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1924 , and in 1925 he moved to Kansas City, Missouri . From 1925 to 1929 he was United States district attorney for the western district of Missouri; he resigned in 1929 and was elected to the U.S. Senate, serving from March 4 , 1929 , to January 3 , 1935 . He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934. He was defeated by Harry S. Truman , who later became President of the United States. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Seventy-second Congress).
Patterson resumed the practice of law in Springfield, was a member of the Missouri Appellate Judicial Commission, and died in Springfield in 1954. Interment was in Maple Park Cemetery, southeast of the city.
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