David Paterson
55th Governor of New York from 2008 to 2010
- Born
- 20 May 1954, Brooklyn
- Age
- 72
David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 55th governor of New York, succeeding Eliot Spitzer, who resigned, and serving out nearly three years of Spitzer's term from March 2008 to December 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first legally blind person to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state, and the first African-American governor of New York.
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