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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.
5 de jun. de 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...
4 de jun. de 2021 · Patterson, John Malcolm. September 27, 1921 to June 4, 2021. Patterson’s gubernatorial term in Alabama was a turbulent one due to his enforcement of state-sponsored segregation and the increase of civil rights activity in Alabama.
27 de feb. de 2024 · A self-professed populist, John Patterson attempted major reforms as governor in Alabama’s property-tax assessment system and the funding of education. Most Alabamians recall his governorship not for these largely failed reform efforts, but for his continued support of segregation .
Governor Patterson was a staunch supporter of the state’s segregationist position and he clashed with the John F. Kennedy administration over the handling of the Freedom Riders. Patterson left office on January 14, 1963, and returned to his law practice in Montgomery.
5 de jun. de 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...
John Malcolm Patterson (September 27, 1921 – June 4, 2021) was an American politician. He was the 44th Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama. He served as governor from 1959 to 1963. Patterson was a member of the Democratic Party. Patterson ran with the support of the Ku Klux Klan when he won the Governorship of Alabama in 1958.
