Jerry Brown | |
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 Brown in 2006 | |
| 34th and 39thGovernor of California | |
| In office January 3, 2011 –January 7, 2019 | |
| Lieutenant | Abel Maldonado Gavin Newsom |
| Preceded by | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Succeeded by | Gavin Newsom |
| In office January 6, 1975 –January 3, 1983 | |
| Lieutenant | Mervyn Dymally Mike Curb |
| Preceded by | Ronald Reagan |
| Succeeded by | George Deukmejian |
| 31stAttorney General of California | |
| In office January 9, 2007 –January 3, 2011 | |
| Governor | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Preceded by | Bill Lockyer |
| Succeeded by | Kamala Harris |
| 47thMayor of Oakland | |
| In office January 4, 1999 –January 8, 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Elihu Harris |
| Succeeded by | Ron Dellums |
| 6th Chairman of theCalifornia Democratic Party | |
| In office February 11, 1989 –March 3, 1991 | |
| Preceded by | Peter D. Kelly III |
| Succeeded by | Phil Angelides |
| 24thSecretary of State of California | |
| In office January 4, 1971 –January 6, 1975 | |
| Governor | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | H. P. Sullivan(Acting) |
| Succeeded by | March Fong Eu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (1938-04-07)April 7, 1938 (age 87) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Parents | Pat Brown Bernice Layne Brown |
| Relatives | Kathleen Brown(sister) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Yale University |
| Signature | _Brown.png) |
| Website | Official website |
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is anAmerican politician. He was the 39th Governor of California from 2011 to 2019. He was also the 34th Governor of California from 1975 to 1983.[1] In 2010, he was electedGovernor of California. On November 4, 2014, he was re-elected governor.[2] Brown is a member of theDemocratic Party. He has also been California's Secretary of State, Attorney General of California, and was the mayor ofOakland for eight years.[3] He ran forPresident of the United States in the Democratic primaries in1976,1980 and in 1992.
Brown was born inSan Francisco, California. His father wasPat Brown who also served asGovernor of California until losing re-election toRonald Reagan. His mother wasBernice Layne Brown. He was raised in San Francisco. Brown studied atYale University and at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.
Brown began his political career as a member of theLos Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees from 1969 to 1971. He later served asSecretary of State of California from 1971 to 1975.
Elected Governor in1974 at age 36, Brown was the youngest California governor in 111 years.
Brown declined to run for a third term in1982, instead running for theUnited States Senate in1982. However, he was defeated by Republican MayorPete Wilson (who himself would later become governor), and many considered his political career to be over. After travelling abroad, Brown returned to California and served as Chairman of theCalifornia Democratic Party (1989–1991), resigning to run for the Senate again in 1992.
Running againstMeg Whitman in2010, Brown became the 39th Governor in 2011; on October 7, 2013, he became the longest-serving governor in California history, surpassingEarl Warren. He was reelected in2014 with sixty percent of the vote. As a consequence of the 28-year gap between his second and third terms, Brown has been both thesixth-youngest California governor (the youngest since 1863) and theoldest California governor in history.
On November 23, 2017, Brown pardoned 70 year old Craig Richard Coley after DNA tests showed he was not involved in the murders of his ex girlfriend and her son in 1978.
Brown had been thought likely to run for theDemocratic nomination for President in the2016 U.S. presidential election. He had expressed some interest in doing so, particularly ifHillary Clinton did not run.[4][5][6] However, in an interview in 2014, Brown ruled out running. He did not rule out running for another term as Mayor of Oakland, saying that "I wouldn't mind being mayor of Oakland. But I don't know, when I'm 80 and a half, whether I'll have the same appetite. I'm very excited doing this job. [Still], I don't want to foreclose my options for four years from now."
In an interview byCNN during the second Republican Primary debate at theRonald Reagan Presidential Library, Brown hinted at a possible presidential bid in 2016.[7] He stated that "I'll jump in when the time is appropriate".[8]
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Brown married hisgirlfriend of fifteen years,Anne Gust, in 2005.[9]
In April 2011 Brown had surgery to remove abasal-cell carcinoma from the right side of his nose.[10] In December 2012, media outlets reported that Brown was being treated for early stage (the precise stage and grade was not stated) localizedprostate cancer with a very good health.[11]
The officialgubernatorial portrait of Jerry Brown, painted for his first term as Governor of California, was painted byDon Bachardy. It was shown to the public for the first time in 1984. The painting is controversial because it is not like all of the otherportraits.[12]
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