Robert Porter Patterson sr

• Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  Judge

  1939 – 1940 · 1 yrAppointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt

• District Court, S.D. New York

  Judge

  1930 – 1939 · 9 yrsAppointed by Herbert Hoover

Career

• Private practice

  New York City

  1947 – 1952 · 5 yrs

• Secretary of War

  1945 – 1947 · 2 yrs

• Assistant secretary of war

  1940 – present · 86 yrs

• Undersecretary of war

  1940 – 1945 · 5 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1919 – 1930 · 11 yrs

• U.S. Army

  1917 – 1919 · 2 yrs

• New York Army National Guard

  1916 – 1917 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  New York City

  1915 – 1916 · 1 yr

Education