<page_title> List of Governors of Alabama </page_title> <section_title> Governors of the State of Alabama </section_title> <table> <cell> 44 <col_header> No. </col_header> </cell> <cell> John Malcolm Patterson <col_header> Governor </col_header> <col_header> Thomas Bibb </col_header> <col_header> Israel Pickens </col_header> <col_header> Gabriel Moore </col_header> <col_header> John Gayle </col_header> <col_header> Clement Comer Clay </col_header> <col_header> Hugh McVay </col_header> <col_header> Arthur P. Bagby </col_header> <col_header> Benjamin Fitzpatrick </col_header> <col_header> Henry W. Collier </col_header> <col_header> John A. Winston </col_header> <col_header> Andrew B. Moore </col_header> <col_header> John Gill Shorter </col_header> <col_header> Vacant </col_header> <col_header> Rufus W. Cobb </col_header> <col_header> Edward A. O'Neal </col_header> <col_header> Thomas Seay </col_header> <col_header> Thomas G. Jones </col_header> <col_header> William C. Oates </col_header> <col_header> Joseph F. Johnston </col_header> <col_header> William D. Jelks </col_header> <col_header> William J. Samford </col_header> <col_header> William D. Jelks </col_header> <col_header> B. B. Comer </col_header> <col_header> Emmet O'Neal </col_header> <col_header> Charles Henderson </col_header> <col_header> Thomas Kilby </col_header> <col_header> William W. Brandon </col_header> <col_header> Bibb Graves </col_header> <col_header> Benjamin M. Miller </col_header> <col_header> Bibb Graves </col_header> <col_header> Frank M. Dixon </col_header> <col_header> Chauncey Sparks </col_header> <col_header> Jim Folsom </col_header> <col_header> Gordon Persons </col_header> <col_header> Jim Folsom </col_header> </cell> <cell> January 20, 1959 – January 14, 1963 (term limited) <col_header> Governor </col_header> <col_header> William Wyatt Bibb </col_header> <col_header> John Murphy </col_header> <col_header> Joshua L. Martin </col_header> <col_header> Reuben Chapman </col_header> <col_header> Thomas H. Watts </col_header> <col_header> Vacant </col_header> <col_header> Lewis E. Parsons </col_header> <col_header> Robert M. Patton </col_header> <col_header> Wager Swayne </col_header> <col_header> William Hugh Smith </col_header> <col_header> Robert B. Lindsay </col_header> <col_header> David P. Lewis </col_header> <col_header> George S. Houston </col_header> <row_header> John Malcolm Patterson </row_header> </cell> </table>
John Malcolm Patterson served as the 44th Governor of Alabama from 1959 to 1963.