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Robert Porter Patterson Sr.

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1930–1939

Robert Porter Patterson Sr., Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Education

  • Union CollegeA.B., 1912
  • Harvard Law SchoolLL.B., 1915

Career

Private practice, New York City, 1915-1916, 1919-1930, 1947-1952; New York Army National Guard, 1916-1917; U.S. Army, 1917-1919; Assistant secretary of war, 1940; Undersecretary of war, 1940-1945; Secretary of War, 1945-1947

Biography

Robert Porter Patterson Sr. (February 12, 1891 – January 22, 1952) was an American judge who served as Under Secretary of War under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and U.S. Secretary of War under President Harry S. Truman. He was a US circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit after he had been a district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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