Joseph Hester PATTERSON

United States of America
United States of America
AthleticsAthletics
Games Participations1
First Olympic GamesBerlin 1936
Year of Birth1912

Biography

Joe Patterson competed for the US Naval Academy and the U.S. Navy. He finished second in the 1936 Olympic Trial in the 400H. He became a career Navy officer but it was a brief career as he was killed after the crash of the submarine Squalus off the coast of Portsmouth, NH in May 1939.

Personal Best: 400H – 51.6 (1936).

Olympic Results

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