George Washington Patterson (November 11, 1799 – October 15, 1879) was an American politician in the U.S. State of New York.

At the age of 18, he taught school in New Hampshire for three months before moving to Livingston, New York with his older brother, where they ran a successful business dealing with the manufacture and sale of fanning mills.

[2] He served as a member of the New York State Assembly from Livingston County in 1832, 1833, and from 1835 to 1840;[3] Patterson was Speaker in 1839 and 1840.

He was quarantine commissioner of the Port of New York in 1859, and was supervisor and president of the board of education for many years.

[12] Both his brother William Patterson[13] and his nephew Augustus Frank were also United States representatives from New York.