Frederick Douglass Patterson Biography

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NAME: Frederick Douglass Patterson
OCCUPATION: Educator
BIRTH DATE: October 10, 1901
DEATH DATE: April 26, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH: Washington, D.C.
PLACE OF DEATH: New Rochelle, New York

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Educator Frederick Douglass Patterson served as president of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. He also founded the United College Negro Fund.

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Frederick Douglass Patterson was born on October 10, 1901, in Washington, D.C. He studied veterinary medicine at Iowa State College and received his Ph.D. from Cornell. In 1928, he joined the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama. He became the institute’s third president. He founded the United Negro College Fund. By 1988, the year Patterson died, the Fund had helped 45,000 students.