Thomas J. Paterson


Thomas Jefferson Paterson, sometimes misspelled Patterson,, was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Paterson was born in Lisle, New York and attended public schools.
Paterson was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress.
He was engaged as a land agent in Rochester, New York.
State Senator John E. Paterson was his brother; Congressman John Paterson and State Senator Caleb Hyde were his grandfathers.