David Patterson Dyer (12 February 1838 – 29 April 1924) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-MO 9) from 4 March 1869 to 3 March 1871, succeeding George Washington Anderson and preceding Andrew King.
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David Patterson Dyer was born in Henry County, Virginia in 1838, and his family moved to Lincoln County, Missouri when he was three years old. He became a lawyer in Bowling Green, Missouri in 1859, and he served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, in the State House from 1862 to 1865, as a delegate to the 1868 Republican National Convention, in the US House of Representatives from 1869 to 1871, as a US Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri from 1875 to 1876 and from 1902 to 1907, as a district court judge from 1907 until his death in 1924.