Gilbert B. Patterson
Gilbert Brown Patterson was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina.
Biography
Born May 29, 1863 near Maxton, Robeson County, North Carolina, Patterson was the son of Gilbert and Margaret P. Patterson. He attended Shoe Heel Academy, Shoe Heel, North Carolina, and the Laurinburg High School and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1886 where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. From 1886 to 1889, he taught in Elizabeth City, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1890. He then commenced practice in Maxton, North Carolina.Career
Patterson was a member of the State house of representatives from 1899 to 1901. He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1903 to March 3, 1907.Returning to his law practice in 1907, Patterson married Mrs. Mattie Virginia McNair Evans. She had a son, Erasmus Hervey Evans, and, together they had a daughter, Mary McNair Patterson. He was a large landholder, a Master Mason and a Shriner, and for many years a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church.