. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. r the State at large to the Republican NationalConvention at Baltimore, by which Abraham Lincoln and AndrewJohnson were nominated for President and Vice-president of theUnited States ; but he was prevented fi-om attending from the factthat he was engaged as a member of the Board of Visitors at WestPoint Military Academy. Mr. Patterson gave his vote for Mr. Lincoln at the re-election ofthe latter to the presidency of the United States ; was a member ofthe Philadelphia Convention of 1866, and in the same year waselected t
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. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. r the State at large to the Republican NationalConvention at Baltimore, by which Abraham Lincoln and AndrewJohnson were nominated for President and Vice-president of theUnited States ; but he was prevented fi-om attending from the factthat he was engaged as a member of the Board of Visitors at WestPoint Military Academy. Mr. Patterson gave his vote for Mr. Lincoln at the re-election ofthe latter to the presidency of the United States ; was a member ofthe Philadelphia Convention of 1866, and in the same year waselected to the United States Senate. He took his seat July 26, 1866, and his term of service expired in March, 1869. He was a memberof the Committee on Eevolutionary Claims and the Committee on theDistrict of Columbia. He took no conspicuous part in legislation, but constantly by his votes supported the policy of the President asagainst Congress. At the close of his term in the Senate he wentinto retirement upon a farm belonging to his father-in-law, near Greenville, Tennessee. 90. 7^J^^^. HON THOMAS W CSBORN, SENATOR FFCM FLORIDA THOMAS W. OSBORK I^^^HOM AS WARD OSBORN was born at Scotch Plains, NewY^^ Jerse}-, March 9, 1S33. His grandfather, John 13. Osborn, /;lfe?- served in the Revohition as a major and quartermaster; andhis grandmother, a sister of Ezra Darby, member of Congress from1804 to 1808, has passed into history as one of the • Heroic Womenof the Revohition. His parents removed to New York in 1842, andsettled in Jefferson County, where his youth was passed in labor onthe farm, with only the advantages of the district school for themonths of each winter until 185-1. He subsequently prepared forcollege at the Governeur Seminary, and in 1857 entered MadisonUniversity, where he graduated with the class of 1860. Soon after, he entered the law office of Messrs. Starbuck & Sawyer, in AYatertown, New York, and exeited himself with energy to preparefor admission to the bar. Immediatel