'heresy'. "MemphisHistory.com's page on J. O. Patterson Jr". Retrieved 2011-01-01. Bishop J. O. Patterson Jr. blazed trails in religion as well as politics »...

from Connecticut J. O. Patterson Jr. (James Oglethorpe Patterson, 1935–2011), American bishop and mayor of Memphis, Tennessee Jim Patterson (California politician)...

Board of Education Hon. Hazel O'Leary former U.S. Secretary of Energy J. O. Patterson Jr. 1958 first African American to occupy the office of Mayor of Memphis...

Democratic areas. He won reelection in 1972 elections against black pastor J. O. Patterson Jr., but by only 11.25%. Kuykendall established himself as one of the...

State Senate J. O. Patterson Jr. (1935–2011), Tennessee State Senate Jerry E. Patterson (born 1946), Texas State Senate John Patterson (Ohio congressman)...

serve as Mayor of Memphis (previous African-American mayors were J. O. Patterson Jr., W. W. Herenton, and Myron Lowery). He was the second African American...

was given his appointment from elder to superintendent by Bishop J. O. Patterson, Jr. In 1990, Dr. E. L. Battles made Wells the president of the National...

Alexander, Chandler was succeeded by two interim mayors: first by J.O. Patterson, Jr. (the first-ever African-American to serve in the office), then by...

the first African American elected as Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee. (J. O. Patterson Jr. was appointed to that office during 1982.) He served five terms from...

Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson (1997). The ensemble cast includes Sterling K. Brown, Kenneth Choi, Christian Clemenson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bruce Greenwood...