Patterson joined the Republican Party and served as a Greenfield 's annual delegate to the Ohio Republican Party caucus . As a delegate and an African-American businessman , he was important to the Warren G. Harding 1920 campaign in turning out the Ohio black vote . For his work in the 1920 election , he was rewarded with a position as alternate delegate to the 1924 Republican National Convention
1924 Republican National Convention
1924 Republican National Convention
Frederick Patterson