Frederick Douglass Patterson biography

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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.