Title: Patterson for Alabama
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.
Subjects: Biography, Governors, History, Judges, Lawyers, Politics and government, Social conditions, Alabama, biography, Governors, united states, Lawyers, alabama, Lawyers, biography, Judges, biography
Places: Alabama, Phenix City (Ala.)
People: John Patterson (1921 Sept. 27-)
Time periods: 1951-, 20th century