32 Facts About John Patric

John Patric was a contributing writer for National Geographic during the mid- to late 1930s and early 1940s and was the author of two books.

John Patric wrote a National Geographic feature article, Imperial Rome Reborn, about fascist Italy, and after writing on World War II shipyard labor practices for Reader's Digest, he gave testimony at a United States congressional hearing.

In later life, John Patric was an early influence on portrait artist Chuck Close, and a perennial political activist and satirical political candidate in his home state of Washington.

John Patric was born in Snohomish, Washington, on May 22,1902.

The Patric household consisted of John, his parents, and four siblings.

John Patric's father, Arthur Noah Patric, originally from Mill City Pennsylvania, was a Snohomish hardware merchant.

John Patric left home shortly thereafter to continue his education, writing, and travels.

John Patric worked sporadically as a journalist, and studied at a number of universities across the United States.

In 1922, John Patric was writing for the American Insurance Digest.

John Patric proudly pointed to the fact that he had never actually received a degree from any of these institutions, and that he had been expelled from eight schools in the course of his academic career.

John Patric involved himself in campus politics, and he wrote a number of articles and editorial pieces for the University newspaper named The Daily Texan.

John Patric had an impish Schopenhauerish streak that caused him to delight in attacking anything pretentious or powerful.

When John Patric was ordered by his "boss" to stop writing about politics, he ran the order in a funeral-black border in his column for several days, then wrote another political column.

John Patric said she saw four men enter a car at the south side of the house.

John Patric's room was found in considerable disorder, with chairs and tables overturned, papers and clothes scattered about.

In 1940, John Patric spent a few months touring the country in his automobile with the writer and Libertarian political theorist Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of author Laura Ingalls Wilder.

John Patric was still writing and traveling extensively for National Geographic while fascism and tensions were on the rise in Europe.

John Patric wrote profiles on Benito Mussolini's Italy and pre-war Czechoslovakia.

When war broke out in the Pacific, John Patric quickly reworked his National Geographic Friendly Journeys in Japan material on Asian travel to fulfill the public's demand for more information on Japan.

John Patric made sporadic but regular appearances in the print media of this period, on book tours, commenting on events of the day in letters to the editor, and interviews in Libertarian and conservative publications such as the following excerpts from Faith and Freedom, March 1955:.

Under this pseudonym, John Patric made regular appearances on Washington state election ballots over a period lasting more than two decades beginning in late 1960.

John Patric is listed on the Hoax Museum's list of satirical political candidates.

John Patric eventually won his release in a subsequent hearing, while "acting as his own attorney, Patric based his defense on the contention that he had always been a screwball", wrote Jack O'Donnell of The Herald.

John Patric ran for numerous local offices in Snohomish County.

John Patric's lifestyle, including his diet, was highly idiosyncratic and he was a heavy smoker.

John Patric apparently subsisted at times on canned mackerel and chocolate bars, washed down with large quantities of coffee.

John Patric was fiercely self-sufficient and compulsively peripatetic and there's no way he could have survived being bed-ridden.

John Patric's mom was a pretty fiery individual in her own right and I still hope for some examples of her writing to turn up.

John Patric seems to have been active in state politics, connected in some way with conservative forces allied to Governor Hartley in the 1920s and 30s.

John Patric got some attention a few years back when there was a webcam set up in the old Carnegie Library to watch for a ghost and some folks suggested that the specter was Emma.

John Patric was born Emma Crueger and graduated from the UW in 1900.

John Patric died on August 31,1985, at the age of 83 in Everett, Washington.