Name John Patterson Role Economist | Education Cornell University | |
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John H. Patterson(b. 1905-d. unk) of Greensburg, Pennsylvania was an American economist, academic and author known for his progressive trade position during the debate over the Smoot-Hawley Act. With Paul O’Leary, he authored An Introduction to Money, Banking and Corporations in 1937.
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Early life
Patterson came from a railroad family. As an undergraduate at Cornell University, he served on the Student Council’s Freshman Advisory Committee, joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and through that organization was a member of the Irving Literary Society. He took his bachelor's degree in Economics in 1925, his master's degree in 1926 and his PhD. in 1929. All degrees were conferred by Cornell University. He married a classmate, Ms. Anne Hubbel Seymour.
Academic career
His first teaching position was an instructor in economics at Washington Square College, New York University. In 1934 he took leave from NYU and returned as acting assistant professor of economics at Cornell. The next year he served as a lecturer in economics at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1939, he became Dean of Men, Middlebury College and an associate professor of Economics.
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Prior to the outbreak of World War Two, he was asked to take a position with the Office of Price Administration in Washington, D.C.