Robert Porter Patterson (Sr.) (February 12, 1891 – January 22, 1952) was the United States Undersecretary of War under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States Secretary of War under President Harry Truman. Patterson returned to private practice in 1947. He was killed in a plane crash in 1952.
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| - Robert Porter Patterson (Sr.) (February 12, 1891 – January 22, 1952) was the United States Undersecretary of War under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States Secretary of War under President Harry Truman. Patterson returned to private practice in 1947. He was killed in a plane crash in 1952.
- Robert Patterson (January 20, 1792 – August 7, 1881) was a United States major general during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. During the onset of the latter, he commanded a brief engagement with Colonel Thomas J. Jackson on July 2, 1861, at the Battle of Hoke's Run and produced an early Union victory. His inability to contain a smaller Confederate army under General Joseph E. Johnston within the Shenandoah Valley was a proximate cause for the Union Army's defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, but among Johnston's stated reasons for avoiding pursuit of the shattered Union Army as it fled in retreat to Washington, the size, integrity and mobility of Patterson's Army is prominent. Shortly after First Bull Run, the three-month term of the volunteers who comprised a major
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- Kenneth Claiborne Royall
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Robert Patterson (January 20, 1792 – August 7, 1881) was a United States major general during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. During the onset of the latter, he commanded a brief engagement with Colonel Thomas J. Jackson on July 2, 1861, at the Battle of Hoke's Run and produced an early Union victory. His inability to contain a smaller Confederate army under General Joseph E. Johnston within the Shenandoah Valley was a proximate cause for the Union Army's defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, but among Johnston's stated reasons for avoiding pursuit of the shattered Union Army as it fled in retreat to Washington, the size, integrity and mobility of Patterson's Army is prominent. Shortly after First Bull Run, the three-month term of the volunteers who comprised a majority of his army expired, Patterson was honorably discharged with them, and his active military career ended. Robert Porter Patterson (Sr.) (February 12, 1891 – January 22, 1952) was the United States Undersecretary of War under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States Secretary of War under President Harry Truman. Prior to his time in the War Department, Patterson had served as a federal district court judge (1930-1939), and then as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1939-1940). As Undersecretary, Patterson was instrumental in preparing the U.S. military for its eventual entry into World War II. As Secretary of War, helped begin the process of unifying the armed forces and pushed for a single chief of staff. Patterson also oversaw the desegregation of the armed forces. Patterson returned to private practice in 1947. He was killed in a plane crash in 1952.| is Commander
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