David T. Patterson
 David Trotter Patterson (February 28 1818 – November 3 1891) was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the beginning of the Reconstruction Period.A staunch Union supporter (as were most of his fellow East Tennesseans) he was elected by the Tennessee General Assembly to the U.S. Senate when Tennessee was readmitted to the Union on July 24 1866 the first state of the former Confederacy to do so.