G.W. Patterson

PATTERSON, STENSRUD

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Date: 1/14/2011 at 20:15:39

Senator from the forty-seventh district, including Emmet, Palo Alto, Clay, Dickinson and Kossuth counties, was born at Burt, Iowa, September 4, 1887, of Scotch parentage. Graduate of Burt high school.

Graduated from Iowa State College, animal husbandry department, 1909.

Married December 28, 1913, to Miss Eva M. Stensrud, Lake Mills, Iowa. Has three children, Donald W., Virginia Mae, and Kenneth Howard.

Business, farming and stock feeding. Elected to house of representatives, 1922; re-elected in 1924 and 1926. Elected senator in 1928; re-elected 1932. A republican.

Contributed by: Debbie Clough Gerischer. Source: Iowa Official Register 1933-1934, Biographies State Senators.