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  Patterson, Isaac L.
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NameIsaac L. Patterson
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Eola, Oregon , United States
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Born September 17, 1859
DiedDecember 21, 1929 (70 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Dec 01, 2017 11:27pm
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InfoBorn on September 17, 1859, on his familys "King's Valley' farm in Benton County, to Francis A., an emigrant from Belleville. Illinois, and Caroline (Tatum) Patterson; a Methodist Episcopalian. He had seven brothers and one sister. Married to Mary E. Woodworth of Salem; raised two sons, Lee and Philip. While growing up Patterson worked as a farm laborer and as a grocery clerk in Independence. He attended the Christian College at Monmouth for one year. In time he became part owner of a grocery. From that modest start he parlayed his mercantile training and his political skills into a successful wool and hide business in Portland after 1905. He later established a brokerage business and also became a gentleman farmer in Eola. Polk County, near Salem, raising peaches, hops, sheep and hogs. A lifelong Republican, Patterson served from 1895 to 1899 as a State Senator for Marion County. In 1898 President McKinley named him Collector of Customs, Portland District, and Theodore Roosevelt reappointed him in 1902, where he remained through the fiscal year 1906. Party work thereafter replaced office holding until Patterson's election to the Oregon State Senate from Benton and Polk counties in 1918. A candidate for governor in 1922, Patterson lost in a five-man race for his party's nomination, scoring a poor third behind the incumbent Olcott and Charles Hall of Coos Bay. However, because of his close ties with Old Guard leaders, he became chairman of the Republican Central Committee in 1924, and later served as chairman of Calvin Coolidge's successful presidential campaign in Oregon. This brought him statewide recognition, the Republican nomination for governor, and election to that office in 1926 when he garnered 120,073 votes to Democrat Waiter Pierce's 93,470. As governor, Patterson followed Coolidge's executive style. After an initial effort to reestablish the state income tax in order to relieve property taxes, he "championed no special program to the legislature and contented himself with letting it drift without executive guidance," as reported by the Salem Capital Journal, Known for his vetoes more than for his proposals, Patterson did improve administrative efficiency in the state agencies; pressed passage of a bill to provide a single board to control all the institutions of higher education; and secured the transfer of control of the state penitentiary from the governor to the State Board of Control (which also served as the state's central purchasing agent). He continued the expansion of the highway system and sought reforms in the boys' training school. A generally popular and admired figure, he suddenly died from pneumonia on December 21, 1929.


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