Paterson is Catholic. Works Paterson, David (2020). Black, Blind, & in Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. See also List of minority governors and lieutenant governors in the United States References Further reading Clayton-Powell, Adam Jr. Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. New York, 1972 Davis, Benjamin. Communist Councilman from Harlem: Autobiographical Notes Written in a Federal Penitentiary New York, New York 1969 Dinkins, David A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic, PublicAffairs Books, 2013 Howell, Ron. Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker Fordham University Press Bronx, New York 2018 Jack, Hulan. Fifty Years a Democrat: The Autobiography of Hulan Jack. New Benjamin Franklin House New York, NY 1983 Baker Motley, Constance. Equal Justice Under The Law: An Autobiography, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998. Pritchett, Wendell E. Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2008 Rangel, Charles B.; 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. Walker, John C. The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones at Tammany 1920–1970, New York: State University New York Press, 1989. External links |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1954 births African-American state governors of the United States African-American state legislators in New York (state) African-American people in New York (state) politics American people of Carriacouan descent American politicians of Jamaican descent American politicians with disabilities American blind people Blind politicians Politicians from Brooklyn Columbia College (New York) alumni Democratic Party governors of New York (state) Lieutenant Governors of New York (state) Living people Hofstra University alumni Maurice A. Deane School of Law alumni Democratic Party New York (state) state senators People from Hempstead (village), New York 2004 United States presidential electors 2008 United States presidential electors Activists for African-American civil rights Andrew Cuomo African-American writers African-American Catholics Distinguished professors in the United States