Patterson for Alabama
Subtitle: the life and career of John Patterson
By: Gene Howard.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780817316051; 9780817380564
Subjects: Patterson, John, -- 1921 Sept. 27-; Governors -- Alabama -- Biography; Lawyers -- Alabama -- Biography; Judges -- Alabama -- Biography; Alabama -- Politics and government -- 1951-; Alabama -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Phenix City (Ala.) -- History -- 20th century; Alabama -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "John Patterson, Alabama governor from 1959 to 1963, was thrust into the Alabama political arena after the brutal murder of his father, attorney general Albert Patterson in 1954. Allowed by the Democratic Party to take his father's place and to complete his elder's goal of cleaning up corruption in his hometown Phenix City, Patterson made a young, attractive, and sympathetic candidate. Patterson for Alabama details his efforts to clean up his hometown, oppose corruption in the administration of Governor Big Jim Folsom, and to resist school desegregation. Popular on all three counts, Patterson went on to defeat rising populist George Wallace for governor."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-250) and index.