# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-paterson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:01:27.701Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-paterson"
name: "David Paterson"
slug: "david-paterson"
description: "David Alexander Paterson is an American politician who served as the 55th governor of New York, succeeding Eliot Spitzer, who resigned, and serving out nearly three years of Spitzer's term from March 2008 to December 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first legally blind person to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state, and the first African-American governor of New York."
tagline: "55th Governor of New York from 2008 to 2010"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Paterson_2_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1954-05-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump