Adam E. Patterson: First Afric an American Judge Advocate in History

摘要

The first African-American lawyer to join our Corps-then known as the Judge Advocate General's Department -was Adam E. Patterson. He had practiced law in Oklahoma and Illinois for more than fifteen years before being appointed as a Major, Division Judge Advocate, 92d Division, American Expeditionary Force, by General John J. Pershing on October 5, 1918. What follows is the story of a remarkable lawyer and judge advocate. Born in Walthall, Mississippi on December 23, 1876, Adam E. Patterson went to high school in Kansas City, Kansas and Pueblo, Colorado. After graduating in 1897, he attended the University of Kansas, and earned his LL.B. in 1900.