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GOVERNOR DAVID PATERSON NEW YORK / 1998 BIRTHDAY SENATE CAMPAIGN KICKOFF INVITATION.

Invitation

R.S.V.P.

Return Envelope

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

DAVID PATERSON

COME CELEBRATE

HELP KICKOFF

DAVID’S

1998 SENATE CAMPAIGN

INVITE YOU TO JOIN THRM To Honor

SENATOR DAVID A. PATERSON

DEPUTY MINORITY LEADER

ON The Occasion OF HIS

BIRTHDAY

KICKOFF OF THE 1990

SENATE CAMPAIGN

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1998

6-9 P.M.

At The Home OF SANFORD RUBENSTEIN

### EAST 64 RD STREET

DRINKS AND HORS D'OEUVRES

HOST COMMITTEE

CO CHAIRS

Hon. Charles Rangel

Hon. Herman "Denny" Farrell

Hon. C. Virginia Fields Hon. Keith L.T. Wright

Hon. Martin Connor

Lisa Davis, Esq.

Hon. Jerrold Nader

Hon. Eric Schneider man

Hon. Mark Green

Hon . Kevin Wardally

Hon. Alan Hevesi

Hon. Charlie King

Hon. Nelson Antonio Denis

Hon. G. Oliver Koppell

Hon. Adriano Espaillat

Hon. Basil A. Paterson

Hon. Scott Stringer

Hon. Chuck Sutton

hon, Thomas Duane

Karen Boykin-Townes

Hon. Robert Ginsberg

David Boyle

Hon. Tony Spencer

Lurlyn Brathwaite

Hon. Beth Berns

Cheryl Burley

Hon. Theresa Freeman Johnson

Erica Calo

Hon. Joseph Haslip

Dennis Consumano, Esq.

Hon. John Harper

Kelli Conlin

Don Capoccia

Catherine Dabney, Esq.

Eugene Eisner, Esq.

Douglas T. Evans

Darrell Gay, Esq.

Latoya Goldsmith

Jeanique Greene

Stanley Hill

Lawrence G. Hirsch

H. Sidney Holmes III

Willie James

Bruce Jackson, Esq.

Michael Jones-Bey

Howie Katz,

Donna Lovell

Eugene McCabe

Woody Pascal

Victoria Pike

Esther Reed

Dennis Rivera

Jeff Samel, Esq.

Norman Seabrook

Gina Stahlnecker

Bill Stephanie

Marvin Terry

George Weldon

David Paterson

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

David Paterson

55th Governor of New York

In office

March 17, 2008 – December 31, 2010

Lieutenant

Joseph Bruno (acting)

Dean Skelos (acting)

Malcolm Smith (acting)

Pedro Espada Jr. (acting)

Richard Ravitch

Preceded by

Eliot Spitzer

Succeeded by

Andrew Cuomo

Lieutenant Governor of New York

In office

January 1, 2007 – March 17, 2008

Governor

Eliot Spitzer

Preceded by

Mary Donohue

Succeeded by

Joseph Bruno (acting)

Chair of the New York State Democratic Committee

In office

May 21, 2014 – November 4, 2015

Preceded by

Keith L. T. Wright

Succeeded by

Sheila Comar

Minority Leader of the New York State Senate

In office

January 1, 2003 – December 31, 2006

Preceded by

Martin Connor

Succeeded by

Malcolm Smith

Member of the New York State Senate

In office

December 10, 1985 – December 31, 2006

Preceded by

Leon Bogues

Succeeded by

Bill Perkins

Constituency

29th district (1985–2002)

30th district (2003–2006)

Personal details

Born

David Alexander Paterson

May 20, 1954 (age 68)

Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.

Political party Paige

(m. 1993; div. 2014)

Mary Galda (m. 2019)

Parent

Basil Paterson

Education

Columbia University (BA)

Hofstra University (JD)

Following his graduation from Hofstra Law School, Paterson worked in the District Attorney's office of Queens County, New York, and on the staff of Manhattan borough president David Dinkins. In 1985, he was elected to the New York State Senate to a seat once held by his father, former New York secretary of state Basil Paterson. In 2003, he rose to the position of Senate minority leader. Paterson was selected to be the running mate of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election. Spitzer and Paterson were elected with 65% of the vote, and Paterson took office as lieutenant governor on January 1, 2007.

After Spitzer resigned in the wake of a prostitution scandal, Paterson was sworn in as governor of New York state on March 17, 2008. Paterson held the office of governor during the Great Recession, and he implemented state budget cuts. Paterson also made two significant appointments: In January 2009, he appointed then-U.S. representative Kirsten Gillibrand to a vacant U.S. Senate seat, and in July 2009, he appointed Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor. Paterson launched a campaign for a full term as governor in the 2010 New York gubernatorial election, but announced on February 26, 2010, that he would bow out of the race. During the final year of his administration, Paterson faced allegations of witness tampering, soliciting improper gifts, and making false statements; he was eventually fined for perjury.

Since leaving office, Paterson has been a radio talk show host and chairman of the New York Democratic Party from May 2014 to November 2015. In late 2020, he published his first book, entitled Black, Blind, & in Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity.