Malcolm R. Patterson

Malcolm Rice Patterson was an American politician and jurist. He served as Governor of Tennessee from 1907 to 1911, and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1901 to 1906. He later served as a circuit court judge in Memphis , and wrote a weekly column for the Memphis Commercial Appeal .

Patterson was born Hamilton Rice Patterson in Somerville, Alabama, the son of Colonel Josiah Patterson , a Confederate cavalry officer and congressman, and Josephine Patterson. In 1866, his father changed his first name to Malcolm. The family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1872, where Patterson would graduate from Christian Brothers College . He studied at Vanderbilt University in the early 1880s, and read law with his father. He was admitted to the bar in 1883.

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