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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 ...
Paterson, who is legally blind, has said he was slugged by one youngster and punched him back. ... Paterson served as governor from 2008 to 2010 and is married to Mary Paterson, Curtis Sliwa’s ...
Paterson, 70, who is legally blind, also hailed the parents of three of the youngsters for making them surrender after the Friday night attack in Manhattan that injured him and 20-year-old stepson ...
The two teens have been charged in the attack on ex-Governor David Patterson and ... he did not attack the Sliwa or former governor, who is legally blind. ... York’s governor from 2008 to 2010 ...
Upon his election, Paterson became the youngest State Senator in Albany. He won the seat again in 1986 for a full term representing the 29th District in the New York State Senate, and served as senator until assuming the office of Lieutenant Governor on January 1, 2007. (The districts changed for the 2002 election.) [4] [5]
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.
Paterson made history at the time as the state's first Black and legally blind governor. Paterson praised his stepson for protecting him as best he could. "When they were insulting him and then ...
Michelle R. Paige Paterson (born April 1, 1961 [1] in Fairfield, California [2]) was the First Lady of New York state. Then-wife of New York Governor David Paterson, she became the First Lady of New York on March 17, 2008, when her husband was sworn in as governor, following the resignation of Eliot Spitzer.