Dan W. Patton Explained

Daniel Webster Patton
Office:Tulsa City Engineer
Term Start:1944
Term End:1948
Term Start1:1928
Term End1:1930
Office2:Tulsa County Engineer
Term Start2:1917
Term End2:1926
Term Start3:1939
Term End3:1941
Term Start4:1915
Term End4:1917
Birth Date:1 August 1885
Death Place:Tulsa, Oklahoma

Daniel Webster Patton (August 1, 1885December 30, 1963; also known as Dan W. Patton) was an American politician who served as the 17th Mayor of Tulsa from 1928 to 1930.

Biography

Daniel Webster Patton was born on August 1, 1885, near Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Rufus Patton and Mary C. McClure.[1] At 15, he joined the U.S. Department of Interior working alongside his older brother J. Gus Patton. The two brothers moved to Tulsa in 1901 and surveyed and plotted the town. Daniel stayed in Tulsa and surveyed railroads and bridges in eastern Oklahoma. He was the county engineer in Le Flore County and Pushmataha County while living in Poteau. He was elected mayor of Poteau in 1915.[2]

In 1917, Patton returned to Tulsa and served as county engineer until 1926.[3] Patton was a Republican and won the 1928 Tulsa Mayoral election. He lost re-election campaigns for mayor in 1930 and 1932. He returned to the Tulsa County engineers office from 1939 to 1941 and later served as the city engineer for Tulsa from 1944 to 1948. He was fired as Tulsa city engineer by Roy M. Lundy after his mayoral election. He died on December 30, 1963, in Tulsa.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Thoburn . Joseph Bradfield . A Standard History of Oklahoma: An Authentic Narrative of Its Development from the Date of the First European Exploration Down to the Present Time, Including Accounts of the Indian Tribes, Both Civilized and Wild, of the Cattle Range, of the Land Openings and the Achievements of the Most Recent Period . 1916 . American Historical Society . . 955 . 21 April 2024 . en.
  2. Web site: O'Dell . Larry . Patton, Daniel Webster (1885–1963). . okhistory.org . . 14 January 2024.
  3. Web site: Gallery of Mayors . . 13 January 2024.