Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Ko David Alexander Paterson (i whanau i te Mei 20, 1954) he kaitōrangapū Amerika i mahi hei Kawana 55 o New York, i whai i a Eliot Spitzer me te mahi i nga tau e toru whakamutunga o te wa o Spitzer mai i te Poutu-te-rangi 2008 ki te mutunga o te 2010. Ko ia te tuatahi o Awherika Amerika ki te pupuri i taua tūranga, me te tuarua o nga Kawana matapo o tetahi kawanatanga i muri i a Bob C. Riley, ko ia te Kawana o Arkansas mo nga ra 11 i te Hanuere 1975.I muri i tana tohu mai i te Kura Ture o Hofstra, i mahi a Paterson i te tari a te roia o Queens County, New York, me te kaimahi o te perehitini o te rohe o Manhattan a David Dinkins. I te tau 1985, i pootihia ia ki te senate o te kawanatanga o New York ki te nohoanga i nohoia e tona papa, te hekeretari o mua o New York Basil Paterson. I te tau 2003, i eke ia ki te tūranga o te kaiarahi iti o te Senate. I tohua a Paterson hei hoa whakahaere na te kaitohutohu nui o New York i taua wa me te kaitono a te Manapori Manapori a Eliot Spitzer i nga pooti a te Kawana o New York 2006. I pootihia a Spitzer me Paterson i te marama o Noema 2006 me te 69 ōrau o te pooti, a ka riro a Paterson hei kawana tuarua i te 1 o Hanuere 2007.I te wehenga atu o Spitzer i muri i te raru mo te moepuku, ka oati a Paterson hei Kawana o New York i te Poutu-te-rangi 17, 2008. I whakarewahia e Paterson tetahi kaupapa poto mo te wa katoa hei kawana i te pooti kawana 2010, engari i kii ia i te Hui-tanguru 26, 2010 kaore ia e tu hei kaitono i te kaupapa matua a te Manapori. Mai i tana wehenga mai i te tari, ko Paterson te kaihautu korero irirangi i runga i te teihana WOR i New York City, a i te tau 2014 i tohua hei tiamana o te New York Democratic Party e tana kaiwhaiwhai hei kawana, Andrew Cuomo.  Pātai: He aha te tau i whānau mai ai a Paterson ki te ao?
Ko te tau 1954