Grady Leslie Patterson, Jr. (January 13, 1924 – December 7, 2009) was a Democratic Party politician who served as the South Carolina Treasurer and a United States Air Force Lieutenant General.

He served in World War II in the U.S. Army Air Forces, flying missions from Iwo Jima as a fighter pilot.

In 1946, he became a member of the South Carolina Air National Guard serving in the Korean War and the Berlin Airlift.

[3] Patterson served as Assistant Attorney General under Dan McLeod in 1959 until he was first elected in 1966 as the State Treasurer after the death of Jefferson Bates.

You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This biographical article related to the United States Air Force is a stub.