Tom Patrick

Name: Tom Patrick
Birth Name: Thomas Jefferson Patrick
Hometown: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthplace: Saltville, Virginia, USA
Died: 1983-04-22 (Age:75)
Pro Boxer: Record

Photo with Georgie Hansford.

Tom Patrick was the elder brother of fellow boxer Bob Patrick. They were of Irish-American heritage, and from a family of 12 children. Their father died when Tom was 6, and he left home at age 11. Patrick became a bellhop, then a fly boy at the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. He trained at a gym for four years before becoming a pro boxer at age 21. He reportedly had some 70 bouts in 11 years. See also.

According to the 1940 U.S. Census Records database on Ancestry.com, one Tom Patrick, a 31-year-old native of Virginia and "Prizefighter," was a lodger at a couple's home in Los Angeles during 1940.

According to a news item about a California State Athletic Commission meeting by Paul Zimmerman in the April 21, 1940 edition of the Los Angeles Times on Newspapers.com, Tom Patrick made a futile plea in "thick tones" to the commission to grant him a boxing license so that he could make a comeback, adding that he could not get any other work and had a wife to support. At the time, Patrick was "unmistakably marked by the profession that he once pursued." The commission was told that Patrick had been training and had reduced his weight from "208 to 188 pounds" with some boxing people supporting this assertion at the meeting. Reportedly making good money during his career, he "lived unwisely" after retiring and "accepted W.P.A. employment."

According to a marriage certificate in digital form in the California, County Marriages, 1850-1952 database on FamilySearch genealogical website, one Thomas J. Patrick, a 25-year-old "Fighter," married one Audrey R. Jary (her maiden name), a 27-year-old secretary and divorcee, in Santa Ana, California on September 23, 1933. Patrick and Jary were listed as natives of Tennessee and Canada respectively.

According to his employment registration form in digital form in the U.S., Chicago and North Western Railroad Employment Records, 1935-1970 database on Ancestry.com, one Thomas J. Patrick was born on March 9, 1908 in "Roynoke," Virginia. At the time of his registration on October 23, 1945, Patrick was living at 212 West 97th Street in Los Angeles, California. The place of his employment was in Proviso, Illinois. His Social Security number was "548-22-3378" (partially illegible).

According to the U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 database on Ancestry.com, one Thomas Patrick was born on March 9, 1908 and died on April 22, 1983. He enlisted in the U.S. Armed Forces on September 18, 1940 and was discharged on April 1, 1941. His Social Security number was 546223378.

According to the U.S., Social Security Death Index, one Thomas Patrick was born on March 9, 1908 and died during April 1983 with his last residence being in Chicago, Illinois. His Social Security number was 546-22-3378, which he received in California before 1951.