Some of you may wonder how many past governors we have in Alabama who are still living and how they are doing. We have six living past governors.
Gov. John Patterson is our oldest living chief executive. Patterson is 99 years old and living on his ancestral family farm in rural Tallapoosa County in an obscure area named Goldville.
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