Patterson H. McDade

Patterson H. McDade (died September 3, 1877) was an American politician from North Carolina.

Career McDade ran as a Democrat for the North Carolina House of Commons in 1846, but was unsuccessful. He was later elected and served in the House of Commons, representing Orange County from 1848 to 1849.

McDade served as clerk of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church. According to family oral history, he appealed to Union soldiers not to burn the church when they were quartered in the village of Chapel Hill. Local historians and historical records refuted the claim stating that McDade tried to save the church's minute book, not the building, from destruction. He provided funds for a plank road to be built between Hillsborough and Chapel Hill. He lived in a white two-story home near Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. He was buried at the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery on Raleigh Road.