Patman, Wright, 1893-1976
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Name (Latin)
Patman, Wright, 1893-1976
Other forms of name
Patman, John William Wright, 1893-1976
Patman, Wright, 1893-
Date of birth
1893-08-06
Date of death
1976-03-07
Place of birth
Cass County (Tex.)
Place of death
Bethesda (Md.)
Associate group
United States. Army
United States. Army (1917 - 1917)
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives (1921 - 1921)
United States. Congress. House
United States. Congress. House (1929-03-04 - 1929-03-04)
Occupation
Lawyers
Legislators--United States
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
John William Wright
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, October 30, 2013(Patman, John William Wright (1893 - 1976); father of William Neff Patman; a Representative from Texas; born at Patman's Switch near Hughes Springs, Cass County, Tex., August 6, 1893; attended the public schools; was graduated from Hughes Springs (Tex.) High School in 1912 and from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1916; engaged in agricultural pursuits in Texas in 1913 and 1914; was admitted to the bar in 1916 and commenced practice in Hughes Springs, Tex.; assistant county attorney of Cass County, Tex., in 1916 and 1917; during the First World War served as a private and later as a machine gun officer in the United States Army, 1917-1919; member of the State house of representatives, 1921-1924; district attorney of the fifth judicial district of Texas, 1924-1929; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first Congress; reelected to the twenty-three succeeding Congresses, and served from March 4, 1929, until his death March 7, 1976, in Bethesda, Md.; chairman, Select Committee on Small Business (Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty-fourth through Eighty-seventh Congresses), Joint Economic Committee (Eighty-fifth, Eighty-seventh, Eighty-ninth, Ninety-first and Ninety-third Congresses), Joint Committee on Defense Production (Eighty-eighth, Ninetieth, Ninety-second, and Ninety-fourth Congresses), Committee on Banking and Currency (Eighty-eighth through Ninety-third Congresses); interment in Hillcrest Cemetery, Texarkana, Tex.)
- U.S. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia.Alcoholic beverage control ... c1934.
- Rep. Wright Patman (D-TX), in Chronoscope, 1954:title frame (Wright Patman, Representative from Texas)