Patton was the representative for Virginia’s 13th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1837 to 1839.
He was previously the representative for Virginia’s 13th congressional district as a Jackson from 1835 to 1837; the representative for Virginia’s 13th congressional district as a Jackson from 1833 to 1835; the representative for Virginia’s 11th congressional district as a Jackson from 1831 to 1833; and the representative for Virginia’s 11th congressional district as a Jackson from 1829 to 1831.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1830 to Apr 1838, Patton missed 380 of 1,464 roll call votes, which is 26.0%. This is on par with the median of 23.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Apr 1838. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
