Don't Make Me Poison Your Salad

Deval Patrick was raised by a single mother on Chicago's south side after his father, a jazz musician, left his family. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Deval spent the early 80s working as a lawyer for the NAACP. He sued then-Arkin saw Governor Bill Clinton and impressed him so much during the case that Clinton later hired him. In 1989 he became the first black person ever elected governor of Virginia.