Robert Patterson (April 11, 1855 – February 28, 1938) was a Canadian provincial politician from Alberta.

Patterson immigrated to Canada at the age of 21 and joined the North-West Mounted Police in 1876 and dispatched to Fort Macleod.

[1] Patterson served on Fort Macleod town council and a member of the school board for a number of years.

[3] In the 1913 Alberta general election Patterson defeated Premier Arthur Lewis Sifton by a narrow margin.

In the 1917 Alberta general election he was defeated by George Skelding of the Liberal party by 50 votes.