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<ul id="toc-Governor_of_New_York_(2008–2010)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Executive_Chamber" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Executive_Chamber"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Executive Chamber </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Executive_Chamber-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-First_days_as_governor" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#First_days_as_governor"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 First days as governor </div> </a> <ul id="toc-First_days_as_governor-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Same-sex_marriage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Same-sex_marriage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3 Same-sex marriage </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Same-sex_marriage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-New_York_fiscal_crisis" class="vector-toc-list-item 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class="vector-toc-link" href="#Aqueduct_Race_Track"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.7 Aqueduct Race Track </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Aqueduct_Race_Track-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Allegations_of_corruption" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Allegations_of_corruption"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.8 Allegations of corruption </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Allegations_of_corruption-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Saturday_Night_Live" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Saturday_Night_Live"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.9 Saturday Night Live </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Saturday_Night_Live-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2010_gubernatorial_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2010_gubernatorial_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 2010 gubernatorial election </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2010_gubernatorial_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Later_career" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Later_career"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Later career </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Later_career-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_life" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_life"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Personal life </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Works" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Works"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Works </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Works-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div 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data-title="ديفيد باترسون" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%BE%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DA%86%DB%8C)" title="دیوید پترسون (سیاستچی) – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="دیوید پترسون (سیاستچی)" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%84_%CE%A0%CE%AC%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BD" title="Ντέιβιντ Πάτερσον – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ντέιβιντ Πάτερσον" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%BE%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1)" title="دیوید پترسون (سیاستمدار) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دیوید پترسون (سیاستمدار)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Føroyskt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EC%9D%B4%EB%B9%84%EB%93%9C_%ED%8C%A8%ED%84%B0%EC%8A%A8" title="데이비드 패터슨 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="데이비드 패터슨" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)" title="ديفيد باترسون (سياسى من امريكا) – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ديفيد باترسون (سياسى من امريكا)" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3_(%E6%94%BF%E6%B2%BB%E5%AE%B6)" title="デビッド・パターソン (政治家) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="デビッド・パターソン (政治家)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%8D%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD,_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4" title="Пэтерсон, Дэвид – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Пэтерсон, Дэвид" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Дејвид Патерсон – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Дејвид Патерсон" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="David Paterson" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Девід Патерсон – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Девід 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background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">55th <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_York" title="Governor of New York">Governor of New York</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office March 17, 2008 – December 31, 2010</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_New_York" title="Lieutenant Governor of New York">Lieutenant</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bruno" title="Joseph Bruno">Joseph Bruno</a> (acting) <a href="/wiki/Dean_Skelos" title="Dean Skelos">Dean Skelos</a> (acting) <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Smith_(U.S._politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Malcolm Smith (U.S. politician)">Malcolm Smith</a> (acting) <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Espada_Jr." title="Pedro Espada Jr.">Pedro Espada Jr.</a> (acting) <a href="/wiki/Richard_Ravitch" title="Richard Ravitch">Richard Ravitch</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer" title="Eliot Spitzer">Eliot Spitzer</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo" title="Andrew Cuomo">Andrew Cuomo</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_New_York" title="Lieutenant Governor of New York">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office January 1, 2007 – March 17, 2008</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Governor</th><td class="infobox-data">Eliot Spitzer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mary_Donohue" title="Mary Donohue">Mary Donohue</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bruno" title="Joseph Bruno">Joseph Bruno</a> (acting)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Chair of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Democratic_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State Democratic Committee">New York State Democratic Committee</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office May 21, 2014 – November 4, 2015</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Keith_L._T._Wright" title="Keith L. T. Wright">Keith L. T. Wright</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data">Sheila Comar</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Minority Leader of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" title="New York State Senate">New York State Senate</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office January 1, 2003 – December 31, 2006</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Connor" title="Martin Connor">Martin Connor</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Smith_(U.S._politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Malcolm Smith (U.S. politician)">Malcolm Smith</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" title="New York State Senate">New York State Senate</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office December 10, 1985 – December 31, 2006</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Leon_Bogues" title="Leon Bogues">Leon Bogues</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Perkins_(politician)" title="Bill Perkins (politician)">Bill Perkins</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/New_York%27s_29th_State_Senate_district" title="New York's 29th State Senate district">29th district</a> (1985–2002) <a href="/wiki/New_York%27s_30th_State_Senate_district" title="New York's 30th State Senate district">30th district</a> (2003–2006)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">David Alexander Paterson</div> (1954-05-20) May 20, 1954 (age 70) <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Michelle_Paige_Paterson" title="Michelle Paige Paterson">Michelle Paige</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1993; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 2014)</div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Mary Galda</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 2019)</div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Basil_Paterson" class="mw-redirect" title="Basil Paterson">Basil Paterson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>) <a href="/wiki/Hofstra_University" title="Hofstra University">Hofstra University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">JD</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/File:David_A_Paterson_Signature.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="David Paterson's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/David_A_Paterson_Signature.jpg/128px-David_A_Paterson_Signature.jpg" decoding="async" width="128" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/David_A_Paterson_Signature.jpg/192px-David_A_Paterson_Signature.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/David_A_Paterson_Signature.jpg/256px-David_A_Paterson_Signature.jpg 2x" data-file-width="882" data-file-height="100" /></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954)<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> is an American politician and attorney who served as the 55th <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_York" title="Governor of New York">governor of New York</a>, succeeding <a href="/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer" title="Eliot Spitzer">Eliot Spitzer</a>, who resigned, and serving out nearly three years of Spitzer's term from March 2008 to December 2010. A member of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a>, he was the first <a href="/wiki/Visual_impairment" title="Visual impairment">legally blind</a> person to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state,<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> and the first <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">African-American</a> governor of <a href="/wiki/New_York_state" class="mw-redirect" title="New York state">New York</a>. Following his graduation from <a href="/wiki/Hofstra_Law_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Hofstra Law School">Hofstra Law School</a>, Paterson worked in the <a href="/wiki/District_Attorney" class="mw-redirect" title="District Attorney">District Attorney's office</a> of <a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens County, New York</a>, and on the staff of <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> <a href="/wiki/Borough_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Borough President">borough president</a> <a href="/wiki/David_Dinkins" title="David Dinkins">David Dinkins</a>. In 1985, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" title="New York State Senate">New York State Senate</a> to a seat once held by his father, former <a href="/wiki/New_York_Secretary_of_State" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Secretary of State">New York Secretary of State</a> <a href="/wiki/Basil_Paterson" class="mw-redirect" title="Basil Paterson">Basil Paterson</a>. In 2003, he rose to the position of <a href="/wiki/Senate_Minority_Leader" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate Minority Leader">Senate minority leader</a>. Paterson was selected to be the <a href="/wiki/Running_mate" title="Running mate">running mate</a> of <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> gubernatorial nominee Eliot Spitzer in the <a href="/wiki/2006_New_York_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 New York gubernatorial election">2006 New York gubernatorial election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-2006-01-23-Healy-3">[3]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer_prostitution_scandal" title="Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal">prostitution scandal</a>, Paterson was sworn in as governor of New York state on March 17, 2008. Paterson held the office of governor during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">Great Recession</a>, and he implemented state budget cuts. He also made two significant appointments: In January 2009, he appointed then-U.S. representative <a href="/wiki/Kirsten_Gillibrand" title="Kirsten Gillibrand">Kirsten Gillibrand</a> to a vacant U.S. Senate seat, and, in July 2009, he appointed <a href="/wiki/Richard_Ravitch" title="Richard Ravitch">Richard Ravitch</a> as lieutenant governor. Paterson launched a campaign for a full term as governor in the <a href="/wiki/New_York_gubernatorial_election,_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="New York gubernatorial election, 2010">2010 New York gubernatorial election</a>, but he announced on February 26, 2010, that he would bow out of the race. During the final year of his administration, Paterson faced allegations of soliciting improper gifts and making false statements; he was eventually fined in excess of $62,000 for accepting free <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> tickets. He was not charged with perjury.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> Since leaving office, Paterson has been a radio talk show host and chairman of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Democratic Party">New York Democratic Party</a> from May 2014 to November 2015. In late 2020, he published his first book, entitled <a href="/wiki/Black,_Blind,_%26_in_Charge:_A_Story_of_Visionary_Leadership_and_Overcoming_Adversity" class="mw-redirect" title="Black, Blind, & in Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity">Black, Blind, & in Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity</a>.<a href="#cite_note-thirteen.org-5">[5]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education">edit</a>]</div> Paterson was born in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, New York, to Portia Hairston Paterson, a homemaker, and <a href="/wiki/Basil_Paterson" class="mw-redirect" title="Basil Paterson">Basil Paterson</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Labor_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor law">labor law</a> attorney. Basil Paterson was later a New York state senator for <a href="/wiki/Harlem" title="Harlem">Harlem</a>, secretary of state under <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Carey" title="Hugh Carey">Hugh Carey</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Deputy_mayor" title="Deputy mayor">deputy mayor</a> of New York City for <a href="/wiki/Ed_Koch" title="Ed Koch">Ed Koch</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Democrat_Chronicle-2008-03-13-Mandelaro-6">[6]</a> According to a New York Now interview, Paterson traces his roots on his mother's side of the family to pre–<a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a> African American slaves in the states of <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> His paternal grandmother, a <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaican</a>, Evangeline Rondon Paterson,<a href="#cite_note-SSDI-1985-8">[8]</a> was secretary to Black Nationalist leader <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Garvey" title="Marcus Garvey">Marcus Garvey</a>. His paternal grandfather was Leonard James Paterson,<a href="#cite_note-SSDI-1968-9">[9]</a> a native of <a href="/wiki/Carriacou" title="Carriacou">Carriacou</a><a href="#cite_note-WorldWarI-1917-06-05-10">[10]</a> who arrived in the United States aboard the S.S. Vestris on May 16, 1917.<a href="#cite_note-NYPassengerList-1917-05-16-11">[11]</a> It was reported by The Genetic Genealogist in March 2008 that Paterson had recently undergone genetic <a href="/wiki/Genealogy" title="Genealogy">genealogy</a> testing.<a href="#cite_note-DNA_testing-12">[12]</a> Part of his father's ancestry consists of immigrants from England, Ireland, and Scotland, while his mother's side includes Eastern European Jewish ancestry, as well as ancestors from the <a href="/wiki/Guinea-Bissau" title="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea-Bissau</a> region of West Africa.<a href="#cite_note-DNA_testing-12">[12]</a> At the age of three months, Paterson contracted an ear infection that spread to his <a href="/wiki/Optic_nerve" title="Optic nerve">optic nerve</a>, leaving him sightless in his left eye and with severely limited vision in his right.<a href="#cite_note-Democrat_Chronicle-2008-03-13-Mandelaro-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-The_Nation-2008-03-12-Nichols-13">[13]</a> Since New York City public schools would not guarantee him an education without placing him in <a href="/wiki/Special_education" title="Special education">special education</a> classes, his family bought a home in the <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a> suburb of <a href="/wiki/South_Hempstead,_New_York" title="South Hempstead, New York">South Hempstead</a> so that he could attend mainstream classes there. Paterson was the first student with a disability in the Hempstead public schools, graduating from <a href="/wiki/Hempstead_High_School_(New_York)" title="Hempstead High School (New York)">Hempstead High School</a> in 1971.<a href="#cite_note-USNews-2008-03-11-Salmon-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-Newsday-2008-03-12-Mailika-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-Observer-2006-02-12-Smith-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-NYT-2008-03-15-Paterson_Timeline-17">[17]</a> Paterson earned a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> in history from <a href="/wiki/Columbia_College,_Columbia_University" title="Columbia College, Columbia University">Columbia College</a> of <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> in 1977 and a <a href="/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">Juris Doctor</a> from <a href="/wiki/Hofstra_Law_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Hofstra Law School">Hofstra Law School</a> in 1983.<a href="#cite_note-USNews-2008-03-11-Salmon-14">[14]</a> After law school, he went to work for the <a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a> <a href="/wiki/District_Attorney" class="mw-redirect" title="District Attorney">District Attorney</a>'s Office, but he did not pass the New York <a href="/wiki/Bar_examination" title="Bar examination">bar examination</a>, which prevented him from becoming an <a href="/wiki/Attorney_at_law_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney at law (United States)">attorney at law</a>. He claimed that his failing the New York bar was partially the result of insufficient accommodation for his visual impairment, and has since advocated for changes in bar exam procedures.<a href="#cite_note-Observer-2006-02-12-Smith-16">[16]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_York_State_Senate_(1985–2006)">New York State Senate (1985–2006)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: New York State Senate (1985–2006)">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Early_political_career_of_David_Paterson" class="mw-redirect" title="Early political career of David Paterson">Early political career of David Paterson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_David_Paterson" title="Electoral history of David Paterson">Electoral history of David Paterson</a></div> On August 6, 1985, state senator <a href="/wiki/Leon_Bogues" title="Leon Bogues">Leon Bogues</a> died, and Paterson obtained the Democratic party nomination for the seat. In mid-September, a meeting of 648 Democratic committee members on the first ballot gave Paterson 58% of the vote, giving him the party nomination. That October, Paterson won the virtually uncontested special <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" title="New York State Senate">State Senate</a> election.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-1985-09-16-ExProsecutor-18">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-NYT-2008-03-11-Chan-19">[19]</a> At the time, the 29th Senate district covered the Manhattan neighborhoods of <a href="/wiki/Harlem" title="Harlem">Harlem</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Valley" title="Manhattan Valley">Manhattan Valley</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Upper_West_Side" title="Upper West Side">Upper West Side</a>, the same district that Paterson's father had represented.<a href="#cite_note-USNews-2008-03-11-Salmon-14">[14]</a> He was re-elected ten times, and remained in the state senate until 2006, sitting in the <a href="/wiki/186th_New_York_State_Legislature" title="186th New York State Legislature">186th</a>, <a href="/wiki/187th_New_York_State_Legislature" title="187th New York State Legislature">187th</a>, <a href="/wiki/188th_New_York_State_Legislature" title="188th New York State Legislature">188th</a>, <a href="/wiki/189th_New_York_State_Legislature" title="189th New York State Legislature">189th</a>, <a href="/wiki/190th_New_York_State_Legislature" title="190th New York State Legislature">190th</a>, <a href="/wiki/191st_New_York_State_Legislature" title="191st New York State Legislature">191st</a>, <a href="/wiki/192nd_New_York_State_Legislature" title="192nd New York State Legislature">192nd</a>, <a href="/wiki/193rd_New_York_State_Legislature" title="193rd New York State Legislature">193rd</a>, <a href="/wiki/194th_New_York_State_Legislature" title="194th New York State Legislature">194th</a>, <a href="/wiki/195th_New_York_State_Legislature" title="195th New York State Legislature">195th</a>, and <a href="/wiki/196th_New_York_State_Legislature" title="196th New York State Legislature">196th</a> New York State Legislatures.<a href="#cite_note-1992districts-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-2002districts-21">[21]</a> Paterson briefly ran in the Democratic primary for the office of <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Public_Advocate" title="New York City Public Advocate">New York City Public Advocate</a> in 1993, but he was defeated by <a href="/wiki/Mark_Green_(New_York_politician)" title="Mark Green (New York politician)">Mark Green</a>.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Senate_minority_leader_(2003–2006)">Senate minority leader (2003–2006)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Senate minority leader (2003–2006)">edit</a>]</div> Paterson was elected <a href="/wiki/Minority_Leader" class="mw-redirect" title="Minority Leader">Minority Leader</a> by the Senate Democratic Conference on November 20, 2002, becoming both the first non-white state legislative leader and the highest-ranking black elected official in the history of New York. Paterson unseated the incumbent minority leader, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Connor" title="Martin Connor">Martin Connor</a>. Paterson became known for his consensus-building style and sharp political skills.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-2008-03-13-Confessore-23">[23]</a> Describing Paterson's tenure in the Senate, <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> cited his "wit, flurries of reform proposals and unusual bursts of candor".<a href="#cite_note-NYT-2008-03-12-Paterson-24">[24]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2006_gubernatorial_election">2006 gubernatorial election</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 2006 gubernatorial election">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2006_New_York_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 New York gubernatorial election">2006 New York gubernatorial election</a></div> In 2006, Paterson was selected by New York attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial candidate <a href="/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer" title="Eliot Spitzer">Eliot Spitzer</a> as his running mate. The news stunned the New York political world, as the Democratic minority was poised to possibly take over the state legislature. Paterson traded the possibility of becoming Senate majority leader for the opportunity to hold the largely ceremonial lieutenant governor post.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-2006-01-25-Cooper-25">[25]</a> During their 2006 campaign, Paterson resolved a dispute with Spitzer over turf wars between staff members.<a href="#cite_note-NYMagazine-2006-10-30-Gray-26">[26]</a> The Spitzer–Paterson ticket won a landslide victory in the election, with 65.7% of the vote. It was the largest margin of victory in a gubernatorial race in New York history, and the second-largest for any statewide race in New York history.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-2006-11-06-Healy-27">[27]</a> In late December 2006, shortly before being sworn in as lieutenant governor, Paterson said that, if he ever succeeded Spitzer as governor, he and <a href="/wiki/Nelson_A._Rockefeller" class="mw-redirect" title="Nelson A. Rockefeller">Nelson A. Rockefeller</a> would have something besides the governorship in common: great difficulty in reading. Rockefeller was dyslexic, and Paterson compared this to his own blindness.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-2007-12-27-Roberts-28">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lieutenant_Governor_of_New_York_(2007–2008)">Lieutenant Governor of New York (2007–2008)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Lieutenant Governor of New York (2007–2008)">edit</a>]</div> Paterson took office as lieutenant governor on January 1, 2007.<a href="#cite_note-CNN-2006-NY-election-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stem-cell_research">Stem-cell research</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Stem-cell research">edit</a>]</div> Paterson led Spitzer's successful 2007 legislative effort to approve a <a href="/wiki/Bond_(finance)" title="Bond (finance)">bond issue</a> that will provide at least $1 billion toward <a href="/wiki/Stem_cell" title="Stem cell">stem-cell</a> research. Spitzer and Paterson touted the measure partly for its <a href="/wiki/Economic_development" title="Economic development">economic development</a> benefits, following <a href="/wiki/California_Constitution_Article_XXXV" class="mw-redirect" title="California Constitution Article XXXV">California's $3 billion effort</a>, which in turn had been prompted by the U.S. federal government halting funding for such research.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-2007-01-16-Confessore-30">[30]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Voting_rights">Voting rights</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Voting rights">edit</a>]</div> In September 2007, Paterson weighed in on a proposal before the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Council" title="New York City Council">New York City Council</a> to extend voting rights to noncitizens.<a href="#cite_note-nyobserver1-31">[31]</a> He told a crowd gathered at the West Indian American Day Carnival Parade that he believed noncitizens should be granted voting rights.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> He stressed that he was asking for a change in policy, rather than a new law, citing that, although 22 states and territories between 1776 and 1920 allowed the practice, none do now.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> Spitzer issued a statement expressing that he did not agree with Paterson's position, and he said that he was unaware that Paterson would be speaking on the matter.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> Paterson had tried to introduce legislation granting voting rights to noncitizens as a State Senator fifteen years earlier.<a href="#cite_note-nyobserver1-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Racial_discrimination_lawsuit">Racial discrimination lawsuit</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Racial discrimination lawsuit">edit</a>]</div> In February 2008, a U.S. District Judge denied a motion to dismiss a <a href="/wiki/Racial_discrimination" title="Racial discrimination">racial-discrimination</a> lawsuit naming Paterson. A white photographer claimed he was fired by Paterson due to his race.<a href="#cite_note-NY_Daily_News-2008-02-18-Benjamin-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-NY_Daily_News-2008-02-18-Slip_Opinion-37">[37]</a> The lawsuit was settled in 2009 for $300,000.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governor_of_New_York_(2008–2010)">Governor of New York (2008–2010)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Governor of New York (2008–2010)">edit</a>]</div> In the midst of <a href="/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer_prostitution_scandal" title="Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal">a prostitution scandal</a>, Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned his position effective March 17, 2008.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> Following Spitzer's resignation, Paterson was sworn in as the 55th governor of New York, at the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Capitol" title="New York State Capitol">New York State Capitol</a> on March 17, 2008,<a href="#cite_note-NYT-2008-03-17-Confessore-40">[40]</a> by New York chief judge <a href="/wiki/Judith_Kaye" title="Judith Kaye">Judith Kaye</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NY.GOV-2008-03-17-Paterson-inauguration-41">[41]</a> Paterson was the first black governor in the history of the state of New York and the fourth black governor in the history of the United States (the first three being the <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Reconstruction era of the United States">Reconstruction</a>-era <a href="/wiki/P._B._S._Pinchback" title="P. B. S. Pinchback">P. B. S. Pinchback</a> of <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Wilder" title="Douglas Wilder">Douglas Wilder</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Deval_Patrick" title="Deval Patrick">Deval Patrick</a>). The lieutenant governor's office remained vacant until September 22, 2009, when the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Court_of_Appeals" title="New York Court of Appeals">New York Court of Appeals</a> ruled in a 4–3 decision that Paterson's appointment of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Ravitch" title="Richard Ravitch">Richard Ravitch</a> was constitutional.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Paterson_DNC_2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/David_Paterson_DNC_2008.jpg/200px-David_Paterson_DNC_2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/David_Paterson_DNC_2008.jpg/300px-David_Paterson_DNC_2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/David_Paterson_DNC_2008.jpg/400px-David_Paterson_DNC_2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Paterson speaks during the <a href="/wiki/2008_Democratic_National_Convention" title="2008 Democratic National Convention">2008 Democratic National Convention</a>.</figcaption></figure> Paterson is the second <a href="/wiki/Blindness" class="mw-redirect" title="Blindness">legally blind</a><a href="#cite_note-WBFO-2008-03-17-Kryszak-43">[43]</a> governor of a U.S. state (the first was <a href="/wiki/Bob_C._Riley" title="Bob C. Riley">Bob C. Riley</a>, who was acting <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Arkansas" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Arkansas">governor of Arkansas</a> for 11 days in January 1975).<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> During his tenure, Paterson's staff read documents to him over voice mail.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> On July 17, 2008, Paterson was the keynote speaker addressing the 99th annual convention of the <a href="/wiki/NAACP" title="NAACP">NAACP</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati,_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnati, Ohio">Cincinnati, Ohio</a>.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> On October 24, 2008, Paterson's top aide, <a href="/wiki/Charles_J._O%27Byrne" title="Charles J. O'Byrne">Charles J. O'Byrne</a>, resigned from his post<a href="#cite_note-auto1-48">[48]</a> following the revelation that he owed nearly $300,000 in back taxes.<a href="#cite_note-auto2-49">[49]</a> O'Byrne admitted to having failed to pay taxes for five years.<a href="#cite_note-auto1-48">[48]</a> Although Paterson is a lifelong Democrat who was considered a liberal in the state Senate, he earned praise from some conservatives during his time as governor for making major spending cuts; for providing mandate relief; for enacting an inflation-indexed property tax cap and a school tax "circuit breaker"; and for his appointment of <a href="/wiki/Blue_Dog_Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Blue Dog Democrat">Blue Dog Democrat</a> <a href="/wiki/Kirsten_Gillibrand" title="Kirsten Gillibrand">Kirsten Gillibrand</a> to a vacant seat in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a>.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Executive_Chamber">Executive Chamber</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Executive Chamber">edit</a>]</div> <table class="infobox" style="width:auto;text-align:left;line-height:1.2em;margin-left:1em; margin-right:0; float:right; clear:right;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3" style="line-height:1.5em;font-size:110%;background:#DCDCDC;text-align:center">The Paterson Executive Chamber</th></tr><tr><th>Office</th><th>Name</th><th>Term</th></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#000"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_York" title="Governor of New York">Governor</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold">David Paterson</th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_New_York" title="Lieutenant Governor of New York">Lieutenant Governor</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Ravitch" title="Richard Ravitch">Richard Ravitch</a></th><td>2009–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Secretary_to_the_Governor_of_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary to the Governor of New York">Secretary to the Governor</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Charles_J._O%27Byrne" title="Charles J. O'Byrne">Charles J. O'Byrne</a></th><td>2008–2008</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_General_Counsel" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State General Counsel">General Counsel</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold">Terryl Brown-Clemens</th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Communications_Director" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State Communications Director">Communications Director</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold">Risa Heller</th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Director_of_State_Operations" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Director of State Operations">Director of State Operations</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold">Dennis Whalen</th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Chief_of_Staff" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State Chief of Staff">Chief of Staff</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Jon_Cohen_(physician)" title="Jon Cohen (physician)">Jon Cohen</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Attorney General">Office of the Attorney General</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo" title="Andrew Cuomo">Andrew Cuomo</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Inspector_General" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State Inspector General">Office of the Inspector General</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold">Joseph Fisch</th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Comptroller" title="New York State Comptroller">Office of the Comptroller</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_DiNapoli" title="Thomas DiNapoli">Thomas DiNapoli</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Agriculture_and_Markets" title="New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets">Department of Agriculture and Markets</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Hooker" title="Patrick Hooker">Patrick Hooker</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Banking" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State Department of Banking">Department of Banking</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Richard_H._Neiman" title="Richard H. Neiman">Richard H. Neiman</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Civil_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State Department of Civil Service">Department of Civil Service</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Nancy_G._Groenwegen" title="Nancy G. Groenwegen">Nancy G. Groenwegen</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Corrections_and_Community_Supervision" title="New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision">Department of Corrections and Community Supervision</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Fischer" title="Brian Fischer">Brian Fischer</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Environmental_Conservation" title="New York State Department of Environmental Conservation">Department of Environmental Conservation</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pete_Grannis" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Pete Grannis">Alexander Pete Grannis</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Education_Department" title="New York State Education Department">Education Department </a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Richard_P._Mills_(educator)" title="Richard P. Mills (educator)">Richard P. Mills</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Health" title="New York State Department of Health">Department of Health</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Richard_F._Daines" title="Richard F. Daines">Richard F. Daines</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Insurance_Department" title="New York State Insurance Department">Insurance Department</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Eric_R._Dinallo" title="Eric R. Dinallo">Eric R. Dinallo</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Labor" title="New York State Department of Labor">Department of Labor</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/M._Patricia_Smith" title="M. Patricia Smith">M. Patricia Smith</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Motor_Vehicles" title="New York State Department of Motor Vehicles">Department of Motor Vehicles</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/David_Swarts" title="David Swarts">David Swarts</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Division_of_Military_and_Naval_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Division of Military and Naval Affairs">Department of Military & Naval Affairs</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Major_General_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Major General (United States)">Maj. Gen.</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_J._Taluto" title="Joseph J. Taluto">Joseph J. Taluto</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Public_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State Department of Public Service">Department of Public Service</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Garry_A._Brown_(politician)" title="Garry A. Brown (politician)">Gary A. Brown</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_New_York" title="Secretary of State of New York">Secretary of State</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Noem%C3%AD_Col%C3%B3n" title="Ruth Noemí Colón">Ruth Noemí Colón</a> (Acting)</th><td>2010–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Taxation_and_Finance" title="New York State Department of Taxation and Finance">Department of Taxation and Finance</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Robert_L._Megna" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert L. Megna">Robert L. Megna</a></th><td>2008–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="background:#D1D1D1"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Transportation" title="New York State Department of Transportation">Department of Transportation</a></td><th style="font-weight:bold">Astrid C. Glynn</th><td>2008–2009</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_days_as_governor">First days as governor</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: First days as governor">edit</a>]</div> Paterson ascended to the governor's office during the busiest legislative period of the year. The state is required by law to pass its <a href="/wiki/Budget" title="Budget">budget</a> prior to April 1.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-2008-03-17-Peters-53">[53]</a> He had only two weeks to negotiate with lawmakers a proposal to close a $4.7 billion <a href="/wiki/Government_budget_deficit" class="mw-redirect" title="Government budget deficit">deficit</a> and pass a $124 billion budget from the Spitzer administration.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> He stated in his inauguration speech that it would be his top priority.<a href="#cite_note-Blomberg-2008-03-17-Goldman-55">[55]</a> Paterson made reference in his speech to the <a href="/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis" title="Subprime mortgage crisis">economic woes</a> being faced in the United States, calling them a "crisis", and promised to "adjust the budget accordingly".<a href="#cite_note-Reuters-2008-03-17-Gralla-56">[56]</a> Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an "end to the dysfunction in Albany" in his speech, echoing a 56-page study from the nonpartisan <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a> <a href="/wiki/New_York_University_School_of_Law" title="New York University School of Law">School of Law's</a> <a href="/wiki/Brennan_Center_for_Justice" title="Brennan Center for Justice">Brennan Center for Justice</a>, which referred to the legislature as "the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation".<a href="#cite_note-Brennan_Center-2004-07-21-Creelan&Moulton-57">[57]</a><a href="#cite_note-Empire_Center-2004-04-21-McMahon-58">[58]</a><a href="#cite_note-Star_Gazette-2008-03-18-Editorial-59">[59]</a> Paterson quickly signed five pieces of legislation on his first day in office: to add the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Labor" title="New York State Department of Labor">New York State Department of Labor</a> to the New York City Transit Track Safety Task Force; to eliminate a law that discouraged employers from holding <a href="/wiki/Blood_donation" title="Blood donation">blood drives</a>; to change the way in which members are appointed to a state health and research board; to restore eligibility caps to certain senior employment programs; and to grant tax exemptions to several local development corporations in New York State.<a href="#cite_note-Journal_News-2008-03-27-Anderson-60">[60]</a> Paterson appointed <a href="/wiki/Christopher_O._Ward" title="Christopher O. Ward">Christopher O. Ward</a> to be executive director of the Port Authority on May 22, 2008.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> Ward was successful in turning around construction at World Trade Center Site, and started the process of turning Farley Post Office into <a href="/wiki/Moynihan_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="Moynihan Station">Moynihan Station</a>.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> One day after Paterson's inauguration as the governor of New York, both he and his wife acknowledged having had extramarital affairs, one with a state employee.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Same-sex_marriage">Same-sex marriage</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Same-sex marriage">edit</a>]</div> In May 2008, Paterson informed New York State agencies that they were required to recognize <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">same-sex marriage</a> licenses from other jurisdictions for purposes of <a href="/wiki/Fringe_benefits#United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Fringe benefits">employee benefits</a>.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-64">[64]</a> The governor's directive was purportedly based upon a decision from <a href="/wiki/New_York_Supreme_Court,_Appellate_Division" title="New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division">New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division</a>'s Fourth Department.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-64">[64]</a> The governor's directive did not receive widespread public attention until weeks after the directive was given.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> At that time, the governor's decision provoked public reaction on both sides of the issue. While Paterson's directive received widespread approval from same-sex marriage supporters,<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> it was met with criticism from conservative legislators and from same-sex marriage opponents, one of whom referred to the directive as Paterson's "first major blunder" as governor.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-67">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> Then-Senate Majority Leader <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bruno" title="Joseph Bruno">Joseph Bruno</a> and others accused Paterson of having overstepped his bounds and usurped the authority of the legislature.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-67">[67]</a> Paterson reportedly described same-sex marriage as "beautiful", and contended that his decision was "the right thing to do"; the governor was enthusiastically cheered when he attended the 2008 gay-pride parade in Manhattan.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a><a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> On June 3, 2008, a lawsuit was filed by the <a href="/wiki/Alliance_Defense_Fund" class="mw-redirect" title="Alliance Defense Fund">Alliance Defense Fund</a> challenging the governor's directive.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> On September 2, 2008, Justice Lucy A. Billings of the State Supreme Court in the Bronx issued a decision that Paterson acted within his powers when he required state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages from outside New York State. In her dismissal of the Alliance Defense Fund suit, Justice Billings found that the governor's order was consistent with state laws on the recognition of marriages from outside the state.<a href="#cite_note-NYT0902-73">[73]</a> In April 2009, it was revealed that Paterson would propose legislation to legalize <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_New_York" title="Same-sex marriage in New York">same-sex marriage in New York</a>.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> Paterson later tapped former Senate Majority Leader and former political foe <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bruno" title="Joseph Bruno">Joseph Bruno</a> to support same-sex marriage in Albany.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> On December 2, 2009, same-sex marriage legislation was "overwhelmingly" defeated on the floor of the New York State Senate by a vote of 24 to 38; no Republican voted yes, eight Democrats voted no.<a href="#cite_note-Benjamin-76">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-77">[77]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Daily_News_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily News (New York)">Daily News</a> described the defeat as a "major blow", while The New York Times stated that the defeat "all but ensures that the issue is dead in New York until at least 2011, when a new Legislature will be installed."<a href="#cite_note-Benjamin-76">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-77">[77]</a> In late 2010, before the January 2011 expiration of his term as governor, Paterson reached out to members of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" title="New York State Senate">New York State Senate</a> in an attempt to gauge support for the passage of same-sex marriage legislation during a lame-duck session of the <a href="/wiki/Legislature" title="Legislature">Legislature</a>; however, the governor came to the conclusion that passage of the bill during the lame-duck session was not feasible.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-78">[78]</a> When asked what would have to occur for same-sex marriage to be legalized in New York, Paterson responded, "Get rid of the lobbyists," and added that same-sex marriage advocates had "forced" a Senate floor vote prematurely in December 2009.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-78">[78]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_York_fiscal_crisis">New York fiscal crisis</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: New York fiscal crisis">edit</a>]</div> In March 2008, Paterson warned that New York state faced its worst fiscal crisis since 2001.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> On July 29, Paterson gave a rare televised address that was broadcast on all of New York's major news networks, stating that the state budget deficit had gone up $1.4 billion over the 90 days since his original budget submission, citing rising costs due to the poor economy and a struggling <a href="/wiki/Wall_Street" title="Wall Street">Wall Street</a>, and calling the state legislature back to Albany for an emergency session starting on August 19, 2008.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a><a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> He also warned that the budget deficit was estimated to grow 22 percent by 2011.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> With <a href="/wiki/AIG" class="mw-redirect" title="AIG">AIG</a> on the verge of collapse on September 16, 2008, and in the aftermath of <a href="/wiki/Lehman_Brothers" title="Lehman Brothers">Lehman Brothers</a> filing for bankruptcy, Paterson publicly lobbied for a government bailout of the insurance giant.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> He hit the cable networks early<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> and was quoted by media around the world.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a><a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a><a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> Paterson revised Spitzer's record-size executive budget proposal to cut spending. Budget negotiations carried over past the deadline, causing the new governor to lament that too many lawmakers were "unwilling to make serious cuts to our budget".<a href="#cite_note-budget1-89">[89]</a> On April 10, 2008, a $121.7 billion budget package was passed by both houses of the state legislature. The budget closed a projected $4.6 billion deficit with $1.8 billion of spending cuts, $1.5 billion in additional revenue from increased taxes and fees and $1.3 billion of one time transfers, and did not tap into the state's $1.2 billion of reserves or increase the top income tax rate on those earning $1 million or more.<a href="#cite_note-budget1-89">[89]</a> Paterson's budget provided property tax relief, delivered aid to municipalities, and restored hundreds of millions in property tax rebates for middle-class homeowners and $1 billion for upstate economic development.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> The budget provided for a tuition remission program for military <a href="/wiki/Veteran" title="Veteran">veterans</a>, offering them free tuition at both <a href="/wiki/State_University_of_New_York" title="State University of New York">SUNY</a> and <a href="/wiki/CUNY" class="mw-redirect" title="CUNY">CUNY</a> institutions.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> Paterson called the 2008 budget proposal "too big and too bloated", and he said he would work to convince the legislature to stop what he saw as unsustainable growth.<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> In April 2008, Paterson asked the heads of all state agencies to cut their budgets by 3.35%, threatened a hiring freeze, and asked legislative leaders to follow suit.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a><a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> At his first State of the State address in January 2009, Paterson said "My fellow New Yorkers: let me come straight to the point—the state of our state is perilous. New York faces an historic economic challenge, the gravest in nearly a century. ... The pillars of Wall Street have crumbled. The global economy is reeling. Trillions of dollars of wealth have vanished."<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> New York faced a budget deficit of $15 billion, and state debt approached $55 billion.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] Paterson's budget proposal called for dramatic across-the-board cuts to various state agencies; he described those cuts as "deep and painful".<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> Paterson proposed to close the 81-year-old Reynolds Game Farm, in Tompkins county, the state's only remaining pheasant facility, but changed course following criticism from sportsmen's groups.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a><a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a><a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> In March 2009, Paterson announced that in light of the fiscal crisis, he would take a 10% pay cut.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Appointment_of_U.S._senator">Appointment of U.S. senator</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Appointment of U.S. senator">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Paterson_Afghanistan_4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/David_Paterson_Afghanistan_4.jpg/200px-David_Paterson_Afghanistan_4.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="298" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/David_Paterson_Afghanistan_4.jpg/300px-David_Paterson_Afghanistan_4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/David_Paterson_Afghanistan_4.jpg/400px-David_Paterson_Afghanistan_4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1641" data-file-height="2444" /></a><figcaption>Paterson visiting <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a> in December 2008.</figcaption></figure> After being nominated for the position on December 1, 2008, Senator <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> was confirmed as <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">United States Secretary of State</a> by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a>. Clinton resigned her Senate seat on January 21, 2009, to assume the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Cabinet" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Cabinet">Cabinet</a> post.<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> By mandate of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Constitution">New York Constitution</a>, Paterson was tasked with appointing a temporary replacement until <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_New_York,_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate special election in New York, 2010">a special election in 2010 for the conclusion of the term of her Class 1 seat</a>. Persons mentioned in the media as potential appointees included U.S. Representative <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Meeks" title="Gregory Meeks">Gregory Meeks</a>, former State Comptroller <a href="/wiki/H._Carl_McCall" title="H. Carl McCall">H. Carl McCall</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_C._Thompson,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="William C. Thompson, Jr.">William C. Thompson, Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Byron_Brown" title="Byron Brown">Byron Brown</a>, Representative <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E._Serrano" title="José E. Serrano">José E. Serrano</a>, Representative <a href="/wiki/Nydia_M._Vel%C3%A1zquez" class="mw-redirect" title="Nydia M. Velázquez">Nydia M. Velázquez</a>,<a href="#cite_note-ICSWWWTHP-105">[105]</a> Representative <a href="/wiki/Nita_Lowey" title="Nita Lowey">Nita Lowey</a>, Representative <a href="/wiki/Carolyn_B._Maloney" class="mw-redirect" title="Carolyn B. Maloney">Carolyn B. Maloney</a>, former Hillary Clinton aide <a href="/wiki/Leecia_Eve" title="Leecia Eve">Leecia Eve</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Federation_of_Teachers" title="United Federation of Teachers">United Federation of Teachers</a> president <a href="/wiki/Randi_Weingarten" title="Randi Weingarten">Randi Weingarten</a>, Representative <a href="/wiki/Kirsten_Gillibrand" title="Kirsten Gillibrand">Kirsten Gillibrand</a>, and political heiress <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Kennedy" title="Caroline Kennedy">Caroline Kennedy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a><a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> While <a href="/wiki/New_York_Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Attorney General">New York Attorney General</a> and former <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development" title="United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development">United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development</a> <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo" title="Andrew Cuomo">Andrew Cuomo</a> refused to publicly declare his interest in the seat, he attracted a plurality of support from polled New Yorkers to take the seat.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> Cuomo was cited by some analysts as a savvy Senate appointee because his appointment might dissuade him from mounting a <a href="/wiki/Partisan_primary" class="mw-redirect" title="Partisan primary">primary</a> challenge against Paterson in the <a href="/wiki/New_York_gubernatorial_election,_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="New York gubernatorial election, 2010">2010 gubernatorial election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a><a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> Paterson acknowledged on January 20, 2009, that Cuomo was indeed under consideration for the appointment.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a> It was reported on December 5, 2008, that Paterson had spoken with Kennedy regarding her interest in the Senate seat.<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> However, Kennedy abruptly withdrew her name from consideration on January 21, 2009.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> Up until her withdrawal, which Kennedy said was based on "personal reasons",<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> the high-profile, well-connected daughter of former President <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> was widely considered the front-runner for the nomination.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> After Kennedy removed herself from consideration, some reports indicated that Paterson "never intended" to pick Kennedy, having come to consider her "unready" for the seat after a series of media misfires.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a><a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a><a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> Some sources and analysts doubted the reports' veracity, calling the Paterson camp's denials of any interest in appointing Kennedy "misdirection".<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> On January 23, 2009, Paterson chose Gillibrand—a moderate upstate representative from a largely conservative district—to fill Clinton's vacated seat.<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_family" title="Kennedy family">Kennedy family</a> criticized Paterson's handling of the appointment.<a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a> Although Gillibrand's appointment was praised by some (including Schumer, New York's senior senator;<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a> President Obama;<a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> and Clinton herself,<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a>) others criticized Paterson's choice, calling Gillibrand "sharp-elbowed",<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> "too conservative",<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> and "unliked".<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> Others, including <a href="/wiki/Liberalism_in_the_United_States" title="Liberalism in the United States">liberal</a> <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">New York Times</a> editorialist <a href="/wiki/Maureen_Dowd" title="Maureen Dowd">Maureen Dowd</a><a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Magazine">New York Magazine</a> writer Chris Smith,<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> criticized Paterson's "peculiar" and "dithering" handling of the Senate appointment and suggested it was a cynical way of rallying upstate support for re-election. Paterson later admitted that he personally ordered his staff to contest Caroline Kennedy's version of events in the hours after she withdrew from consideration to be United States senator.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Appointment_of_new_lieutenant_governor">Appointment of new lieutenant governor</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Appointment of new lieutenant governor">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2009_New_York_State_Senate_leadership_crisis" title="2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis">2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis</a></div> Due to the ongoing leadership crisis in the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" title="New York State Senate">New York State Senate</a>, in which the Senate tied with 31 Democratic votes and 31 Republican votes, with no presiding officer to break the tie, Paterson announced on July 8, 2009, that he would appoint <a href="/wiki/Richard_Ravitch" title="Richard Ravitch">Richard Ravitch</a>, a former chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Transportation_Authority" title="Metropolitan Transportation Authority">Metropolitan Transportation Authority</a>, to be <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant Governor">lieutenant governor</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nyt0709-132">[132]</a> On August 20, 2009, however, a four-judge panel of the New York State Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, ruled that Paterson had no legal authority to name a lieutenant governor, and that the lieutenant governor position could not be filled in any way other than via an election. On September 23, 2009, the New York Court of Appeals reversed the Appellate Division's decision, holding Paterson's appointment of Ravitch to be constitutional.<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aqueduct_Race_Track">Aqueduct Race Track</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Aqueduct Race Track">edit</a>]</div> In January 2010, Paterson awarded a contract to operate a 4,500-<a href="/wiki/Slot_machine" title="Slot machine">slot machine</a> <a href="/wiki/Racino" title="Racino">racino</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Aqueduct_Race_Track" class="mw-redirect" title="Aqueduct Race Track">Aqueduct Race Track</a> to Aqueduct Race Track Entertainment Group (AEG) in <a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a>. The selection AEG led to accusations of favoritism. The New York State inspector general, Joseph Fisch, said the state government showed "militant indifference" to the public's best interest. Fisch criticized Paterson for delegating the process to his aides, who Fisch said did not keep him properly informed.<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a> On March 9, 2010, Paterson <a href="/wiki/Recused" class="mw-redirect" title="Recused">recused</a> himself from the case, saying that he was doing so on the advice of his lawyers.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> On the same day, investors <a href="/wiki/Floyd_Flake" title="Floyd Flake">Floyd Flake</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jay-Z" title="Jay-Z">Jay-Z</a> withdrew from AEG. Flake had a 0.6% share.<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Allegations_of_corruption">Allegations of corruption</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Allegations of corruption">edit</a>]</div> In February 2010, The New York Times reported that Paterson may have been involved in <a href="/wiki/Witness_tampering" title="Witness tampering">witness tampering</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Domestic_abuse" class="mw-redirect" title="Domestic abuse">domestic-abuse</a> case involving staffer David W. Johnson after <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Police" title="New York State Police">New York State Police</a> and Paterson allegedly talked to the complainant in an attempt to persuade her to drop the case. Paterson was said to have asked the woman if she needed any help a day before the case was dropped.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> On February 26, 2010, Paterson withdrew his bid for a full term as governor of New York.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-2010-02-26-138">[138]</a> In March 2010, the New York State Commission on Public Integrity asked Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to investigate allegations that Paterson had solicited an unlawful gift of free <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> tickets.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a> He also faced allegations that he had lied under oath to the Commission on Public Integrity in 2010 during an investigation about the Yankees tickets.<a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a> Following the "twin scandals", a poll showed that fewer than half of New Yorkers believed Paterson should remain in office. Despite this, Paterson announced on March 5, 2010, that he intended to remain in his post until his term in office concluded at the end of the year.<a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a> Paterson was not criminally charged in connection with his witness interaction in the Johnson domestic abuse matter.<a href="#cite_note-142">[142]</a> On December 20, 2010, the Commission on Public Integrity found that Paterson had lied about accepting five free World Series tickets and fined him $62,125.<a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Saturday_Night_Live">Saturday Night Live</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Saturday Night Live">edit</a>]</div> After the <a href="/wiki/Weekend_Update" title="Weekend Update">Weekend Update</a> sketch featuring David Paterson aired in 2009 on the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> show <a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a>, Paterson was upset by the way the sketch portrayed him, stating that it was an offensive <a href="/wiki/Stereotype" title="Stereotype">stereotype</a> to those who were visually impaired.<a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a> On the 36th-season premiere of Saturday Night Live (aired September 25, 2010), Paterson appeared in the Weekend Update sketch alongside <a href="/wiki/Fred_Armisen" title="Fred Armisen">Fred Armisen</a>, who was comedically portraying Paterson.<a href="#cite_note-SNLsketch-145">[145]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2010_gubernatorial_election">2010 gubernatorial election</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 2010 gubernatorial election">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2010_New_York_gubernatorial_election" title="2010 New York gubernatorial election">2010 New York gubernatorial election</a></div> In October 2008, Paterson launched a campaign website and announced his intention to run for a full term as governor.<a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] Paterson's prime <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> opponent was expected to be former New York City mayor <a href="/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani" title="Rudy Giuliani">Rudy Giuliani</a>.<a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a> By February 2009, after the prolonged Senate appointment process, a <a href="/wiki/Siena_College" title="Siena College">Siena College</a> poll indicated that Paterson was losing popularity among New Yorkers and showed Giuliani with a fifteen-point lead in a hypothetical contest.<a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a> In April 2009, a <a href="/wiki/Quinnipiac_University_Polling_Institute" title="Quinnipiac University Polling Institute">Quinnipiac</a> poll found that 60% of voters disapproved of Paterson's performance (the worst-ever rating for a New York governor); 53% believed that Paterson should withdraw his candidacy for the gubernatorial election.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-149">[149]</a> In an August 21, 2009, radio interview, Paterson suggested that his low popularity was caused by racism and added that Gov. <a href="/wiki/Deval_Patrick" title="Deval Patrick">Deval Patrick</a> of Massachusetts had received a similar reception.<a href="#cite_note-150">[150]</a> Paterson added that President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> would be the next African-American elected official to suffer from poor approval due to his skin color. The White House asked Paterson to tone down his comments on race, but less than 24 hours later, Paterson said: "[One] very successful minority is permissible; but when you see too many success stories, then some people get nervous."<a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a> Giuliani never ran for Governor.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-152">[152]</a> Eventually, Republicans nominated <a href="/wiki/Carl_Paladino" title="Carl Paladino">Carl Paladino</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-152">[152]</a> On September 18, 2009, advisors to President Barack Obama informed Paterson that the President believed Paterson should withdraw his 2010 gubernatorial candidacy and clear a path for "popular Attorney General <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo" title="Andrew Cuomo">Andrew Cuomo</a>" to run.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated4-153">[153]</a> According to <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>, Obama was worried that Paterson's continued unpopularity could hinder the campaigns of New York's Democratic congressmembers and could also topple Democratic control of the state legislature. The Times cited a potential gubernatorial run by Giuliani as another reason for the Obama administration's request. On September 19, 2009, Paterson insisted he was still running.<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a> He reiterated his position on February 9, 2010, saying, "[The] only way I'm not going to be governor next year is at the ballot box and the only way I'll be leaving office before is in a box".<a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a> On February 26, 2010, however, Paterson withdrew his bid for a full term as governor of New York "amid crumbling support from his party and an uproar over his administration's intervention in a domestic violence case involving a close aide".<a href="#cite_note-NYT-2010-02-26-138">[138]</a> Later in 2010, Cuomo became the Democratic nominee for governor of New York and won the election in a landslide over Paladino.<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_career">Later career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Later career">edit</a>]</div> After leaving office at the end of 2010, Paterson appeared on New York radio station <a href="/wiki/WOR_(AM)" title="WOR (AM)">WOR</a> on a number of occasions as a substitute talk-show host, filling in for morning host <a href="/wiki/John_R._Gambling" title="John R. Gambling">John Gambling</a>.<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a> On September 1, 2011, the station announced that Paterson would become the regular weekday afternoon <a href="/wiki/Drive_time" title="Drive time">drive-time</a> host beginning on September 6.<a href="#cite_note-158">[158]</a> He replaced <a href="/wiki/Steve_Malzberg" title="Steve Malzberg">Steve Malzberg</a>. In December 2012, Paterson was let go from his radio show at WOR after <a href="/wiki/IHeartMedia" title="IHeartMedia">Clear Channel</a> purchased the station.<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a> In 2012, then-governor Andrew Cuomo appointed Paterson to the board of the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Transportation_Authority" title="Metropolitan Transportation Authority">Metropolitan Transit Authority</a>. Paterson was confirmed to this post in June 2012.<a href="#cite_note-160">[160]</a> In July 2013, Paterson said that he might run for Congress if U.S. Representative <a href="/wiki/Charles_Rangel" title="Charles Rangel">Charles Rangel</a> retired.<a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a> In December 2013, however, Paterson stated that he had "no intention of running for Congress in the 13th District, either now or in the future".<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a> Paterson was appointed in 2013 to be a <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_professors" class="mw-redirect" title="Distinguished professors">distinguished professor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Health care in the United States">health care</a> and <a href="/wiki/Public_policy_degrees" title="Public policy degrees">public policy</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Touro_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Touro College">Touro College</a>, in Harlem, and to advise the <a href="/wiki/Touro_College_of_Osteopathic_Medicine" title="Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine">Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine</a> on <a href="/wiki/Public_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Public policy of the United States">public policy issues</a>.<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a> Paterson was a director for investments with Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, a financial services holding company.<a href="#cite_note-164">[164]</a> In early 2014, Paterson unveiled his portrait that hangs in the Hall of Governors in the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Capitol" title="New York State Capitol">New York State Capitol</a>.<a href="#cite_note-165">[165]</a> In May 2014, Andrew Cuomo appointed Paterson chairman of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Democratic Party">New York Democratic Party</a>.<a href="#cite_note-166">[166]</a> On October 7, 2015, Paterson announced that he would leave that position following the November elections.<a href="#cite_note-167">[167]</a> Paterson oversaw victories in the 2014 state elections, where Democrats held the governor, attorney general, and comptroller positions.<a href="#cite_note-168">[168]</a> Paterson released his book <a href="/wiki/Black,_Blind,_%26_In_Charge:_A_Story_of_Visionary_Leadership_and_Overcoming_Adversity" class="mw-redirect" title="Black, Blind, & In Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity">Black, Blind, & In Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity</a> in late 2020. The book discussed not only his life, but the figures around him and the history that affected him.<a href="#cite_note-thirteen.org-5">[5]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/2021_New_York_City_Democratic_mayoral_primary" title="2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary">2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary</a>, Paterson endorsed the eventual winner of the primary, <a href="/wiki/Eric_Adams_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eric Adams (politician)">Eric Adams</a>.<a href="#cite_note-169">[169]</a> In the fall of 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Waterfront_Alliance" title="Waterfront Alliance">Waterfront Alliance</a>, chaired by former Paterson appointee <a href="/wiki/Christopher_O._Ward" title="Christopher O. Ward">Christopher O. Ward</a>, named Paterson the Hero of the Harbor.<a href="#cite_note-170">[170]</a> In August 2022, New York Governor <a href="/wiki/Kathy_Hochul" title="Kathy Hochul">Kathy Hochul</a> planted a tree in Paterson's honor at the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Executive_Mansion" title="New York State Executive Mansion">New York State Executive Mansion</a>.<a href="#cite_note-171">[171]</a> Paterson endorsed <a href="/wiki/Kathy_Hochul" title="Kathy Hochul">Kathy Hochul</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2022_New_York_gubernatorial_election" title="2022 New York gubernatorial election">2022 New York gubernatorial election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-172">[172]</a> In March 2023, a building on Eagle Street, in <a href="/wiki/Albany,_New_York" title="Albany, New York">Albany, New York</a> was named after Governor Paterson to commemorate the 15th anniversary of assuming the governorship.<a href="#cite_note-173">[173]</a> In 2024, Paterson and his band played a show in the building named after him in Albany.<a href="#cite_note-174">[174]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a>]</div> In 1992, Paterson and Michelle Paige married. Two years later, they had a son.<a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a> The couple separated in 2012 and divorced in July 2014.<a href="#cite_note-176">[176]</a> In 2019, Paterson married Mary Sliwa in New York City in a ceremony officiated by former New York Mayor David N. Dinkins at <a href="/wiki/The_Water_Club_(restaurant)" title="The Water Club (restaurant)">The Water Club</a>.<a href="#cite_note-177">[177]</a>  Their family includes three children. In October 2024 Paterson and his step-son Anthony Sliwa who is also the son of <a href="/wiki/Curtis_Sliwa" title="Curtis Sliwa">Curtis Sliwa</a> were assaulted in New York City's Upper East Side by a group of four men and one woman resulting in them suffering minor injuries. Two adults and two minors were later charged in the incident.<a href="#cite_note-178">[178]</a><a href="#cite_note-179">[179]</a> Paterson is <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a>.<a href="#cite_note-180">[180]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Works">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFPaterson2020" class="citation book cs1">Paterson, David A. (September 29, 2020). Black, Blind, & in Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity. 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Davis">Davis, Benjamin</a>. Communist Councilman from Harlem: Autobiographical Notes Written in a Federal Penitentiary New York, New York 1969</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_N._Dinkins" class="mw-redirect" title="David N. Dinkins">Dinkins, David</a> <a href="/wiki/A_Mayor%27s_Life" title="A Mayor's Life">A Mayor's Life</a>: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic, PublicAffairs Books, 2013</li> <li>Howell, Ron. Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of <a href="/wiki/Bertram_L._Baker" title="Bertram L. Baker">Bertram L. Baker</a> Fordham University Press Bronx, New York 2018</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hulan_Jack" title="Hulan Jack">Jack, Hulan</a>. Fifty Years a Democrat: The Autobiography of Hulan Jack. New Benjamin Franklin House New York, NY 1983</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constance_Baker_Motley" title="Constance Baker Motley">Baker Motley, Constance</a>. Equal Justice Under The Law: An Autobiography, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998.</li> <li>Pritchett, Wendell E. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Clifton_Weaver" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Clifton Weaver">Robert Clifton Weaver</a> and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2008</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Rangel" title="Charles Rangel">Rangel, Charles B</a>.; Wynter, Leon (2007) And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress. New York: St. Martin's Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-312-38213-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-312-38213-1">978-0-312-38213-1</a></li> <li>Walker, John C. The Harlem Fox: <a href="/wiki/J._Raymond_Jones" title="J. Raymond Jones">J. Raymond Jones</a> at Tammany 1920–1970, New York: State University New York Press, 1989.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Paterson&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:David_Paterson" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:David Paterson">David Paterson</a>.</div></div> </div><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://governordavidpaterson.com">Governor David Paterson's official website</a> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?1011110">Appearances</a> on <a href="/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; 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text-align: center;" rowspan="1"> Member of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" title="New York State Senate">New York State Senate</a> from the <a href="/wiki/New_York%27s_30th_State_Senate_district" title="New York's 30th State Senate district">30th</a> district 2003–2006 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Perkins_(politician)" title="Bill Perkins (politician)">Bill Perkins</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Connor" title="Martin Connor">Martin Connor</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"> Minority Leader of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" title="New York State Senate">New York State Senate</a> 2003–2006 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Smith_(U.S._politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Malcolm Smith (U.S. politician)">Malcolm Smith</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ccccff;">Political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Mary_Donohue" title="Mary Donohue">Mary Donohue</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; 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(2003-2006), <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" title="New York State Senate">State Senator</a> (1985–2006)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Governor of New York</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Executive_Chamber_of_David_Paterson" title="Executive Chamber of David Paterson">Executive Chamber</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><a href="/wiki/File:David_Paterson_2_by_David_Shankbone.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/David_Paterson_2_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/100px-David_Paterson_2_by_David_Shankbone.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="142" class="mw-file-element" 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navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michelle_Paige_Paterson" title="Michelle Paige Paterson">Michelle Paige Paterson</a> (spouse)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basil_Paterson" class="mw-redirect" title="Basil Paterson">Basil Paterson</a> (father)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Key staff</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Ravitch" title="Richard Ravitch">Richard Ravitch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_O._Ward" title="Christopher O. 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O'Byrne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Pearlman" title="Jeffrey Pearlman">Jeffrey Pearlman</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Black,_Blind,_%26_In_Charge:_A_Story_of_Visionary_Leadership_and_Overcoming_Adversity" class="mw-redirect" title="Black, Blind, & In Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity">Black, Blind, & In Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Governors_and_lieutenant_governors_of_New_York" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Governors_of_New_York" title="Template:Governors of New York"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Governors_of_New_York" title="Template talk:Governors of New York"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Governors_of_New_York" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Governors of New York"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Governors_and_lieutenant_governors_of_New_York" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_York" title="Governor of New York">Governors</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_New_York" title="Lieutenant Governor of New York">lieutenant governors</a> of <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Governors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Clinton_(vice_president)" title="George Clinton (vice president)">G. Clinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Jay" title="John Jay">Jay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Clinton_(vice_president)" title="George Clinton (vice president)">G. Clinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgan_Lewis_(governor)" title="Morgan Lewis (governor)">Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_D._Tompkins" title="Daniel D. Tompkins">Tompkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tayler" title="John Tayler">Tayler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DeWitt_Clinton" title="DeWitt Clinton">D. Clinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_C._Yates" title="Joseph C. Yates">Yates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DeWitt_Clinton" title="DeWitt Clinton">D. Clinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Pitcher" title="Nathaniel Pitcher">Pitcher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren" title="Martin Van Buren">Van Buren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enos_T._Throop" title="Enos T. Throop">Throop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_L._Marcy" title="William L. Marcy">Marcy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_H._Seward" title="William H. Seward">Seward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_C._Bouck" title="William C. Bouck">Bouck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silas_Wright" title="Silas Wright">Wright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Young_(governor)" title="John Young (governor)">Young</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamilton_Fish" title="Hamilton Fish">Fish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Hunt" title="Washington Hunt">Hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horatio_Seymour" title="Horatio Seymour">Seymour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myron_H._Clark" title="Myron H. Clark">Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_A._King" title="John A. King">King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_D._Morgan" title="Edwin D. Morgan">Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horatio_Seymour" title="Horatio Seymour">Seymour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reuben_Fenton" title="Reuben Fenton">Fenton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_T._Hoffman" title="John T. Hoffman">Hoffman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Adams_Dix" title="John Adams Dix">J. Adams Dix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_J._Tilden" title="Samuel J. Tilden">Tilden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Robinson" title="Lucius Robinson">Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alonzo_B._Cornell" title="Alonzo B. Cornell">Cornell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Cleveland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_B._Hill" title="David B. Hill">Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roswell_P._Flower" title="Roswell P. Flower">Flower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levi_P._Morton" title="Levi P. Morton">Morton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_S._Black" title="Frank S. Black">Black</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">T. Roosevelt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Odell_(politician)" title="Benjamin Odell (politician)">Odell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_W._Higgins" title="Frank W. Higgins">Higgins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes" title="Charles Evans Hughes">Hughes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace_White" title="Horace White">White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Alden_Dix" title="John Alden Dix">J. Alden Dix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Sulzer" title="William Sulzer">Sulzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_H._Glynn" title="Martin H. Glynn">Glynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Seymour_Whitman" title="Charles Seymour Whitman">Whitman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Smith" title="Al Smith">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathan_L._Miller" title="Nathan L. Miller">Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Smith" title="Al Smith">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">F. Roosevelt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_H._Lehman" title="Herbert H. Lehman">Lehman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Poletti" title="Charles Poletti">Poletti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey" title="Thomas E. Dewey">Dewey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman" title="W. Averell Harriman">Harriman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller" title="Nelson Rockefeller">Rockefeller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Wilson_(politician)" title="Malcolm Wilson (politician)">Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Carey" title="Hugh Carey">Carey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mario_Cuomo" title="Mario Cuomo">M. Cuomo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Pataki" title="George Pataki">Pataki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer" title="Eliot Spitzer">Spitzer</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Paterson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo" title="Andrew Cuomo">A. Cuomo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kathy_Hochul" title="Kathy Hochul">Hochul</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="2" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Flag_of_the_Governor_of_New_York.svg/100px-Flag_of_the_Governor_of_New_York.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Flag_of_the_Governor_of_New_York.svg/150px-Flag_of_the_Governor_of_New_York.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Flag_of_the_Governor_of_New_York.svg/200px-Flag_of_the_Governor_of_New_York.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="450" /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lieutenant governors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Van_Cortlandt" title="Pierre Van Cortlandt">Van Cortlandt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Van_Rensselaer" title="Stephen Van Rensselaer">S. 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Patterson">Patterson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanford_E._Church" title="Sanford E. Church">Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Jarvis_Raymond" title="Henry Jarvis Raymond">Raymond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_R._Selden" title="Henry R. Selden">Selden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Campbell_(New_York_politician)" title="Robert Campbell (New York politician)">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_R._Floyd-Jones" title="David R. Floyd-Jones">Floyd-Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_G._Alvord" title="Thomas G. Alvord">Alvord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stewart_L._Woodford" title="Stewart L. Woodford">Woodford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allen_C._Beach" title="Allen C. Beach">Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_C._Robinson" title="John C. 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Mahoney">Mahoney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_DeLuca" title="George DeLuca">DeLuca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Wilson_(politician)" title="Malcolm Wilson (politician)">Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_M._Anderson" title="Warren M. Anderson">Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Anne_Krupsak" title="Mary Anne Krupsak">Krupsak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mario_Cuomo" title="Mario Cuomo">M. Cuomo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_DelBello" title="Alfred DelBello">DelBello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_M._Anderson" title="Warren M. Anderson">Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stan_Lundine" title="Stan Lundine">Lundine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betsy_McCaughey" title="Betsy McCaughey">McCaughey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Donohue" title="Mary Donohue">Donohue</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Paterson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bruno" title="Joseph Bruno">Bruno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Skelos" title="Dean Skelos">Skelos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Smith_(U.S._politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Malcolm Smith (U.S. politician)">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedro_Espada_Jr." title="Pedro Espada Jr.">Espada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Ravitch" title="Richard Ravitch">Ravitch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Duffy_(politician)" title="Robert Duffy (politician)">Duffy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kathy_Hochul" title="Kathy Hochul">Hochul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrea_Stewart-Cousins" title="Andrea Stewart-Cousins">Stewart-Cousins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Benjamin" title="Brian Benjamin">Benjamin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrea_Stewart-Cousins" title="Andrea Stewart-Cousins">Stewart-Cousins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Delgado" title="Antonio Delgado">Delgado</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li>Italics indicate acting officeholders</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="New_York_State_Democratic_Committee" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:New_York_State_Democratic_Committee" title="Template:New York State Democratic Committee"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:New_York_State_Democratic_Committee" title="Template talk:New York State Democratic Committee"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:New_York_State_Democratic_Committee" title="Special:EditPage/Template:New York State Democratic Committee"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="New_York_State_Democratic_Committee" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Democratic_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="New York State Democratic Committee">New York State Democratic Committee</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Chairpersons</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Augustus_Schell" title="Augustus Schell">Schell</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Fowler_(New_York_politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Samuel Fowler (New York politician) (page does not exist)">Fowler</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_J._Bingham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph J. Bingham (page does not exist)">Bingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Richmond" title="Dean Richmond">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_J._Tilden" title="Samuel J. Tilden">Tilden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allen_C._Beach" title="Allen C. Beach">Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Magone" title="Daniel Magone">Magone</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Purcell_(editor)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Purcell (editor) (page does not exist)">Purcell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lester_B._Faulkner" title="Lester B. Faulkner">Faulkner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Manning" title="Daniel Manning">Manning</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_C._O%27Brien&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John C. O'Brien (page does not exist)">O'Brien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_C._B._Walker" title="Charles C. B. Walker">Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Murphy_Jr." title="Edward Murphy Jr.">Murphy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_W._Hinckley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James W. Hinckley (page does not exist)">Hinckley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elliott_Danforth" class="mw-redirect" title="Elliott Danforth">Danforth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Campbell_(New_York_politician)" title="Frank Campbell (New York politician)">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cord_Meyer_(New_York_politician)" title="Cord Meyer (New York politician)">Meyer</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=William._J._Conners&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William. J. Conners (page does not exist)">Conners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Alden_Dix" title="John Alden Dix">Dix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winfield_A._Huppuch" title="Winfield A. Huppuch">Huppuch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_E._Mack" title="Norman E. Mack">Mack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_M._Palmer" title="George M. Palmer">Palmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Church_Osborn" title="William Church Osborn">Osborn</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edwin_S._Harris&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edwin S. Harris (page does not exist)">Harris</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_A._Kellogg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph A. Kellogg (page does not exist)">Kellogg</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_W._Farley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William W. Farley (page does not exist)">Farley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Pell" title="Herbert Pell">Pell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Corning" title="Edwin Corning">Corning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._William_Bray" title="M. William Bray">Bray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Farley" title="James Farley">Farley</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_E._Fitzpatrick&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul E. Fitzpatrick (page does not exist)">Fitzpatrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_A._Lynch" title="Walter A. Lynch">Lynch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_H._Balch" title="Richard H. Balch">Balch</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_H._Prendergast&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael H. Prendergast (page does not exist)">Prendergrast</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_H._McKeon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William H. McKeon (page does not exist)">McKeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_J._Burns_(New_York_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="John J. Burns (New York politician)">Burns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_F._Crangle" title="Joseph F. Crangle">Crangle</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patrick_J._Cunningham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patrick J. Cunningham (page does not exist)">Cunningham</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dominic_J._Baranello&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dominic J. Baranello (page does not exist)">Baranello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_C._Hennessy" title="William C. Hennessy">Hennessy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Laurence_J._Kirwan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Laurence J. Kirwan (page does not exist)">Kirwan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_A._Marino&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John A. Marino (page does not exist)">Marino</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred_Gordon_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alfred Gordon (politician) (page does not exist)">Gordon</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Judith_H._Hope&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Judith H. Hope (page does not exist)">Hope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herman_D._Farrell_Jr." title="Herman D. Farrell Jr.">Farrell</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=June_F._O%27Neill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="June F. O'Neill (page does not exist)">O'Neill</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Paterson</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jay_S._Jacobs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jay S. Jacobs (page does not exist)">Jacobs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_L._T._Wright" title="Keith L. T. Wright">Wright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byron_Brown" title="Byron Brown">Brown</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Gubernatorial tickets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al_Smith" title="Al Smith">Smith</a>/<a href="/wiki/George_R._Fitts" class="mw-redirect" title="George R. Fitts">Fitts</a> (1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Smith" title="Al Smith">Smith</a>/<a href="/wiki/George_R._Lunn" title="George R. Lunn">Lunn</a> (1922, 1924)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Smith" title="Al Smith">Smith</a>/<a href="/wiki/Edwin_Corning" title="Edwin Corning">Corning 1st</a> (1926)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a>/<a href="/wiki/Herbert_H._Lehman" title="Herbert H. Lehman">Lehman</a> (1928, 1930)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_H._Lehman" title="Herbert H. Lehman">Lehman</a>/<a href="/wiki/M._William_Bray" title="M. William Bray">Bray</a> (1932, 1934, 1936)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_H._Lehman" title="Herbert H. Lehman">Lehman</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_Poletti" title="Charles Poletti">Poletti</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_J._Bennett_Jr." title="John J. Bennett Jr.">Bennett</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_Poletti" title="Charles Poletti">Poletti</a> (1942)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_M._Mead" title="James M. Mead">Mead</a>/<a href="/wiki/Erastus_Corning_2nd" title="Erastus Corning 2nd">Corning 2nd</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_A._Lynch" title="Walter A. Lynch">Lynch</a>/<a href="/wiki/Richard_H._Balch" title="Richard H. Balch">Balch</a> (1950)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman" title="W. Averell Harriman">Harriman</a>/<a href="/wiki/George_DeLuca" title="George DeLuca">DeLuca</a> (1956, 1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Morgenthau" title="Robert Morgenthau">Morgenthau</a>/<a href="/wiki/John_J._Burns_(New_York_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="John J. Burns (New York politician)">Burns</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_D._O%27Connor" title="Frank D. O'Connor">O'Connor</a>/<a href="/wiki/Howard_J._Samuels" title="Howard J. Samuels">Samuels</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Goldberg" title="Arthur Goldberg">Goldberg</a>/<a href="/wiki/Basil_Paterson" class="mw-redirect" title="Basil Paterson">Paterson</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Carey" title="Hugh Carey">Carey</a>/<a href="/wiki/Mary_Anne_Krupsak" title="Mary Anne Krupsak">Krupsak</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Carey" title="Hugh Carey">Carey</a>/<a href="/wiki/Mario_Cuomo" title="Mario Cuomo">M. Cuomo</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mario_Cuomo" title="Mario Cuomo">M. Cuomo</a>/<a href="/wiki/Alfred_DelBello" title="Alfred DelBello">DelBello</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mario_Cuomo" title="Mario Cuomo">M. Cuomo</a>/<a href="/wiki/Stan_Lundine" title="Stan Lundine">Lundine</a> (1986, 1990, 1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Vallone_Sr." title="Peter Vallone Sr.">Vallone</a>/<a href="/wiki/Sandra_Frankel" title="Sandra Frankel">Frankel</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._Carl_McCall" title="H. Carl McCall">McCall</a>/<a href="/wiki/Dennis_Mehiel" class="mw-redirect" title="Dennis Mehiel">Mehiel</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer" title="Eliot Spitzer">Spitzer</a>/<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Paterson</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo" title="Andrew Cuomo">A. Cuomo</a>/<a href="/wiki/Robert_Duffy_(politician)" title="Robert Duffy (politician)">Duffy</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo" title="Andrew Cuomo">A. 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href="/wiki/Executive_Chamber_of_Eliot_Spitzer" title="Executive Chamber of Eliot Spitzer">The Spitzer Administration Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer_political_surveillance_controversy" title="Eliot Spitzer political surveillance controversy">Troopergate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer_drivers_license_controversy" title="Eliot Spitzer drivers license controversy">Drivers license controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer_prostitution_scandal" title="Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal">Prostitution scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/In_the_Arena" title="In the Arena">In the Arena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viewpoint_with_Eliot_Spitzer" class="mw-redirect" title="Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer">Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="3" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Eliot_Spitzer.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Eliot Spitzer"><img alt="Eliot Spitzer" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Eliot_Spitzer.jpg/60px-Eliot_Spitzer.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="76" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Eliot_Spitzer.jpg/90px-Eliot_Spitzer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Eliot_Spitzer.jpg/120px-Eliot_Spitzer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="270" data-file-height="341" /></a><figcaption>Eliot Spitzer</figcaption></figure></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Eliot_Spitzer" title="Electoral history of Eliot Spitzer">Electoral history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Attorney_General_elections" title="New York Attorney General elections">New York Attorney General elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_New_York_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 New York gubernatorial election">2006 New York gubernatorial election</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Silda_Wall_Spitzer" title="Silda Wall Spitzer">Silda Wall Spitzer (spouse)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Spitzer" title="Bernard Spitzer">Bernard Spitzer (father)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashley_Alexandra_Dupr%C3%A9" title="Ashley Alexandra Dupré">Ashley Alexandra Dupré</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">David Paterson (successor as governor)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rich_Baum" class="mw-redirect" title="Rich Baum">Rich Baum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Shorris" title="Anthony Shorris">Anthony Shorris</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div 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