Morehead Patterson

Who is Morehead Patterson?

Morehead Patterson was an American businessman, a diplomat, an inventor, and president, CEO and chairman of American Machine and Foundry, the company founded by his father Rufus Patterson. Patterson led expansion of AMF from $5 million a year company to $500 million a year conglomerate. Patterson was also chairman of the Brookings Institution. Patterson was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1897 and attended Yale University, Oxford University and Harvard University, earning a law degree from Harvard University in 1924.