| Joseph Turner Patterson | |
| Native Name: | instead.--> |
| Term Start: | January 18, 1956 |
| Term End: | April 19, 1969[1] |
| Birth Date: | 10 July 1907 |
| Death Date: | [2] |
| Death Cause: | Stroke |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Mother: | Mae Vivian Harpole |
| Father: | Albert Thomas "Abb" Paterson |
| Education: | Mississippi A&M Mississippi College Cumberland University Law School LLB 1929 |
| Known For: | Role in Civil Rights |
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Joseph Turner Patterson (1907–1969) was the thirty-fourth Attorney General of Mississippi.
Patterson was born July 10, 1907, in Eupora, Mississippi.[3]
In 1930, Patterson was elected city attorney of Calhoun, Mississippi. In 1932, he was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives. In 1936, he joined the staff of Senator Pat Harrison.
In 1962, Patterson cooperated with the Kennedy administration to register James Meredith to attend Ole Miss.
In 1968, he represented the state's interests in Coffey v. State Educational Finance Commission.[4] This case marked the end of state subsidies to segregation academies.
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