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A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first legally blind person to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state, [2] and the first African-American governor of New York. Following his graduation from Hofstra Law School , Paterson worked in the District Attorney's office of Queens County, New York , and on the staff of Manhattan borough ...
John Malcolm Patterson (September 27, 1921 – June 4, 2021) was an American politician. He served one term as Attorney General of Alabama from 1955 to 1959, and, at age 37, served one term as the 44th Governor of Alabama from 1959 to 1963.
Aubrey Herbert, MP 1911-23 (near blind from youth, becoming totally blind in his last year of life and service) Chris Holmes, Baron Holmes of Richmond, Conservative life peer in the House of Lords (blind) Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth, member of the House of Lords (paralyzed from the neck down following a car accident)
The two teens have been charged in the attack on ex-Governor David Patterson and his stepson, according to sources. ... he did not attack the Sliwa or former governor, who is legally blind ...
Governor Patterson or Paterson may refer to: David Paterson (born 1954), Governor of New York from 2008 to 2010; I. L. Patterson (1859–1929), Governor of Oregon from 1927 to 1929; John Malcolm Patterson (1921–2021), Governor of Alabama from 1959 to 1963; Malcolm R. Patterson (1861–1935), Governor of Tennessee from 1907 to 1911
Patterson ran for governor in 1958, beating Wallace in a Democratic primary that focused largely on Patterson’s pro-segregation stand. Patterson was the only person to beat Wallace in an Alabama ...
For 16 years, a wall at a General Mills cereal factory in Georgia bore a mural that looked like Confederate monument Stone Mountain. On the 12-foot-tall painting were three General Mills cereal ...
First 33 African-American legislators in Georgia: see Original 33. 1870; First African-American senator from Mississippi: Hiram R. Revels (also first in U.S.) First African-American acting governor: Oscar James Dunn of Louisiana from May until August 9, 1871, when sitting Governor Warmoth was incapacitated and chose to recuperate in Mississippi ...