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John Malcolm Patterson (born September 27, 1921) is an American politician who was the forty-ninth Governor of Alabama, from 1959 to 1963. His tenure as governor was a difficult one, marked by clashes with the civil rights movement.

Patterson was born in Goldville, Alabama. He joined the US Army in 1939 and served in the North African, Sicilian, Italian, Southern France, and German campaigns of World War II. In 1945, he left the Army as a major, and obtained a law degree from the University of Alabama, but was recalled to active duty in the Army from 1951 to 1953 in the Korean War.

After his military service, Patterson joined the law practice of his father, Albert Patterson. Malcolm dating, Malcolm singles - Malcolm, Alabama. In 1954, Albert Patterson was nominated for Attorney General on a platform promising to clean up crime, but was shot to death in June of 1954. John Patterson replaced his father on the Democratic ticket in a special election, and was elected to the post of Attorney General.

As Attorney General, Patterson worked against organized crime, but his activities against the civil rights movement gained more attention. He managed to ban the NAACP from operating in the state of Alabama, and legally blocked the black community's boycotts in Tuskegee and Montgomery. With backing from the Ku Klux Klan, Patterson ran for Governor in 1958, and won, defeating George Wallace, making him the youngest governor in Alabama history, and the first to move directly from the post of Attorney General to Governor.