John Malcolm Patterson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Malcolm Patterson

44th Governor of Alabama

Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1921

Place of Birth: Goldville, Alabama, United States

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician, military officer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

John Malcolm Patterson (born September 27, 1921) is an American politician who served one term as the 44th Governor of the U.S.
state of Alabama from 1959 to 1963.
A staunch segregationist, he was his state's attorney general from 1955 to 1959.
His turbulent tenure as governor was roiled by numerous civil rights protests and a long-running extramarital affair with Tina Sawyer, a mother-of-two who would eventually become his third wife.In 2003, Patterson was the presiding judge over former Chief Justice Roy Moore's appeal against his removal from the Alabama Supreme Court. Patterson ran with the support of the Ku Klux Klan when he won the Governorship of Alabama in 1958.