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Name:               Thomas MacDonald Patterson
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PATTERSON, Thomas MacDonald, (1839 - 1916) 

Senate Years of Service: 1901-1907 
Party: Democrat 
 
PATTERSON, Thomas MacDonald, a Delegate, a Representative and a Senator from 
Colorado; born in County Carlow, Ireland, November 4, 1839; immigrated to the 
United States with his parents, who settled in New York City in 1849; attended 
the public schools; moved with his parents to Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1853; 
worked in a printing office for three years and as a watchmaker and jeweler 
for five years; during the Civil War enlisted in the Eleventh Regiment, 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in 1861; attended the Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) 
University, Greencastle, Ind., 1862 and Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., 
1863; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in 
Crawfordsville, Ind.; moved to Denver, Colo., in 1872 and continued the 
practice of law; city attorney of Denver 1873-1874; elected as a Democrat to 
be a Delegate to the Forty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1875, to 
August 1, 1876, when the Territory became a State; successfully contested the 
election of James B. Belford to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from 
December 13, 1877, to March 3, 1879; was not a candidate for renomination in 
1878; resumed the practice of law in Denver; member of the Democratic National 
Committee 1874-1880; purchased the Rocky Mountain News in 1890 and later the 
Denver Times; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served 
from March 4, 1901, to March 3, 1907; was not a candidate for reelection; 
twice an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor; resumed newspaper 
activities in Denver, Colo., and died there July 23, 1916; interment in 
Fairmount Cemetery. 

Bibliography

Dictionary of American Biography; Downing, Sybil, and Robert E. Smith. Tom 
Patterson: Colorado Crusader for Change. Niwot: University of Colorado, 1995; 
Smith, Robert E. “The Anti-Imperialist Crusade of Thomas M. Patterson.” 
Colorado Magazine 51 (Winter 1974): 28-42. 


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