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Jun 6, 2021 · Former Alabama Gov. John Patterson, who entered politics as a reformer after his father’s assassination but was criticized for failing to protect the Freedom Riders from angry white mobs, has...
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Jun 5, 2021 · John M. Patterson, a defiant segregationist who defeated and preceded George C. Wallace as the governor of Alabama as the South plunged into the violence and turmoil of the civil rights movement...
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Patterson was born in Goldville in Tallapoosa County on Sept. 27, 1921, the oldest of four surviving children from a political family. An uncle, Lafayette Patterson, served in Congress and later in Franklin Roosevelt’s administration. His father, a World War I veteran wounded in France, served a single term in the Alabama Senate. Patterson enlisted...
Patterson won election with little effort. After taking office, the new attorney general supported efforts to wipe out crime in Phenix City and launched prosecutions of small loan operators for charging excessive interest rates. The corruption that led to his father's death did not end up dominating his administration. By the time Patterson was swo...
Patterson notched up some achievements in his four years in the governor’s mansion. He continued his fight against loan sharks and promoted school and highway construction. He also encouraged the development of the space program in Huntsville. But fights over civil rights dominated his term, and Patterson made no secret of where he stood. The gover...
Term limited in 1963, Patterson tried to return to the governor's mansion in 1966. He highlighted his segregationist stands in his campaign. In one ad, Patterson urged Alabamians to “vote for a man who successfully defended your constitutional rights from inside and outside encroachment.” But Patterson ran into the overwhelming popularity of Wallac...
Jun 5, 2021 · John Patterson, an intractable segregationist Democrat of the 1950s and 1960s who served as Alabama’s attorney general and then governor and belatedly said he came to regret the stances that...
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Jun 5, 2021 · Former Alabama Gov. John Patterson, a staunch segregationist who later expressed remorse for his efforts to oppose civil rights, has died at age 99.
Jun 5, 2021 · Former Alabama Gov. John Patterson (D) died Friday night at the age of 99, his family confirmed to multiple media outlets. Patterson’s daughter, Barbara Patterson Scholl, told WSFA in...
Jun 5, 2021 · Former Alabama Gov. John Patterson has died at the age of 99. His daughter says he died Friday. Patterson entered politics as a reformer after his father’s assassination but was criticized for failing to protect the Freedom Riders from angry white mobs.
