Albert Patterson

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Albert Patterson (d. June 18, 1954) was a newly elected attorney general of the U.S. state of Alabama when he was gunned down outside of his office in Phenix City, Alabama shortly after he was elected. Patterson, a former state senator, had won the election on a campaign promise to clean up the highly corrupt east Alabama town and was assassinated in 1954 before he could make good on it. His death brought about martial law in the city, however, and led to its revival and also led directly to the election of his son, John Malcolm Patterson, to the office of Governor of the state.

Alan Grady's book When Good Men Do Nothing: The Assassination of Albert Patterson ISBN 0-8173-1141-6 chronicles the events leading to and following the murder.

These events were dramatized in the 1955 biopic film noir The Phenix City Story, directed by Phil Karlson.

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