Charles Edward Patterson (May 3, 1842 Corinth, Orange County, Vermont - 1913) was an American lawyer and politician.
He was the son of Dr. James Hervey Patterson, was educated at Castleton Seminary in Castleton, Vermont and Cambridge Academy in Cambridge, New York, and graduated from Union College in 1860. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Troy, New York where he became a partner in the firm of David L. Seymour whose daughter he married.
He was a Democratic member from Rensselaer County of the New York State Assembly in 1881 and 1882, and was elected Speaker on February 2, 1882, after a month-long struggle of the different factions of the Democratic Party. The rural Democrats and the County Democracy had tried to oppose John Kelly and Tammany Hall, but eventually came to terms.
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| Preceded by George H. Sharpe |
Speaker of the New
York State Assembly 1882 |
Succeeded by Alfred C. Chapin |
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