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David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) [1] is an American politician and attorney who served as the 55th governor of New York, succeeding Eliot Spitzer, who resigned, and serving out nearly three years of Spitzer's term from March 2008 to December 2010.
New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies on the east coast of North America, and was admitted as a state on July 26, 1788. Prior to declaring its independence, New York was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, which it in turn obtained from the Dutch as the colony of New Netherland; see the list of colonial governors and the list of directors-general of New Netherland for the ...
Previously, Paterson had been mentioned as a possible successor to Senator Hillary Clinton should Clinton win the Democratic nomination and also the 2008 U.S. presidential election. [18] [19] Paterson was a 2008 Democratic party national convention superdelegate and endorsed Clinton. [20]
Paterson served as governor from 2008 to 2010 and is married to Mary Paterson, Curtis Sliwa’s ex-wife. NYCHA worker Diamond Minter is charged with assault in the attack on former Gov. David ...
The only instance since at least 1980 in which the second in line reached a state governorship was on January 8, 2002, when New Jersey Attorney General John Farmer Jr. acted as governor for 90 minutes between Donald DiFrancesco and John O. Bennett's terms in that capacity as president of the Senate following governor Christine Todd Whitman's ...
Paterson, who served as New York’s governor from 2008 to 2010, is married to Mary Paterson, the ex-wife of Sliwa. Sliwa and Mary share one child, Anthony. Sliwa and Mary share one child, Anthony.
Former New York Gov. David Paterson joins NewsNation's "CUOMO" to discuss the political turmoil surrounding NYC Mayor Eric Adams.
One of Governor Paterson's first moves as Governor was to fire Anthony Shorris. [10] He was succeeded by Paterson appointee Christopher O. Ward . [ 11 ] Subsequently, Shorris ran the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy at New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and consulted with various government agencies on ...