John Denniston Patton

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John Denniston Patton (November 28, 1829 – February 22, 1904) was a U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania.

Patton was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania and attended the public schools. He worked in a tannery for several years and then engaged in mercantile pursuits in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress, serving from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1885. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884, after which he retired from public life. Patton died in Indiana, Pennsylvania and is interred in Oakland Cemetery there.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by James Mosgrove

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district 1883 - 1885

Succeeded by Alexander C. White