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Samuel Legerwood Patterson (March 6, 1850 – September 14, 1908) was a
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politician and farmer.


Biography

The son of
Samuel F. Patterson Samuel Finley Patterson (March 11, 1799 – January 20, 1874) was a North Carolina politician, planter, businessman, and member of the prominent Patterson family. Early life Patterson was born on March 11, 1799, in Rockbridge County, Virgini ...
and his wife, Phoebe Caroline, Patterson was born in 1850 at Palmyra, the family plantation in
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. He served in the state House of Representatives in 1891 and
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and in the
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in 1893. In the legislature, he was chair of the committee on agriculture. He was also a trustee of the
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. Patterson was appointed commissioner of agriculture from 1895 to 1897, when he was removed by the fusion of Republicans and Populists that came to power that year. He was reappointed in 1899 and then became the first popularly elected commissioner in 1900. He served until his death on September 14, 1908. Patterson Hall at
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is named in his honor. He and his wife bequeathed Palmyra to the Episcopal Church as a school, which operated as The Patterson School from 1909 through 2009.


References


Inventory of the Jones and Patterson Family PapersPatterson School closed for 2009-2010 school year
{{DEFAULTSORT:Patterson, Samuel L. North Carolina Commissioners of Agriculture 1850 births 1908 deaths People from Caldwell County, North Carolina Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives North Carolina state senators 19th-century American legislators