Joseph Turner Patterson (1907–1969) was the thirty-fourth Attorney General of Mississippi.

Patterson was born July 10, 1907, in Eupora, Mississippi.

[1] In 1930, Patterson was elected city attorney of Calhoun, Mississippi.

In 1962, Patterson cooperated with the Kennedy administration to register James Meredith to attend Ole Miss.

[3] This case marked the end of state subsidies to segregation academies.