Pat McCuiston

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Pat McCuiston

| image =

| state_senate = Kentucky

| district = 3rd

| term_start = January 1, 1968

| term_end = January 1, 1993

| predecessor = Owen Billington

| successor = Joey Pendleton

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1917|09|08}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|05|03|1917|09|08}}

| death_place =

| party = Democratic

| alma_mater = Murray State University

}}

Pat Michaux McCuiston (September 8, 1917 – May 3, 2002) was an American politician from Kentucky who served in the Kentucky Senate from 1968 to 1993. He was first elected to the Senate in 1967 and won reelection continuously until his defeat in the 1992 Democratic primary by Joey Pendleton.

On June 15, 1972, McCuiston was one of 20 Democratic senators who voted for Kentucky to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.{{cite news |last=Pardue |first=Anne |date=June 16, 1972 |title=Kentucky becomes 19th to ratify equal rights for women amendment |work=The Courier Journal |location=Louisville, Kentucky |page=1}}

A native of Kirksey, Kentucky, McCuiston graduated from Murray State University in 1939.{{cite news|url=https://www.kentuckynewera.com/article_dc42c744-7393-5e9d-8867-aaa5a7edc1a4.html|title=McCuiston remembered as ‘powerful,' ‘influential'|work=Kentucky New Era|first=Melony|last=Leazer|date=May 6, 2002|access-date=June 6, 2024}} He died in May 2002 at the age of 84.{{cite news |date=May 5, 2002 |title=McCuiston, former state senator, 84 |work=The Lexington Herald-Leader |page=C4}}