“I believe that had I been sent to the military academy, as my mother and father threatened, I would have been president a long time ago.”
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Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr., is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected secretary of state of California in 1970; Brown later served as the mayor of Oakland from 1999 to 2007 and the attorney general of California from 2007 to 2011. He was both the olde…
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2026· 4 entries
Artsy: Write-in Jerry Brown President (2008) by Doug Aitken - For Sale
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Pat Brown | California Governor, Political Realignment, & Jerry Brown’s Father
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Public attention spiked: 7,042 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.5× the usual 1,276, with 1 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
The American Spectator: Jerry Brown Still Backs Bankrupt Bullet Train
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2024· 3 entries
Yahoo: Jerry Brown on California issues, the law-making process, and the challenges of governing
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Politico: Jerry Brown on Trump’s silver lining
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Yahoo: Ex-Gov. Jerry Brown speaks about California issues at Sacramento event
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2023· 1 entry
A beetle in the genus Bembidium was named B
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2019· 1 entry
In 2019, Brown was appointed to be a visiting professor at Berkeley.
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2018· 10 entries
Claimed: “California’s budget surplus is about "$30 billion"” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “California Gov. Jerry Brown "vetoed 2016 wildfire management bill while California burned."” Half True.
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Snopes rated the claim “Jerry Brown vetoed a wildfire management bill in 2016, contributing to the prevalence and risk of wildfires in the ensuing two years.” Mixture.
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Snopes rated the claim “California governor Jerry Brown is moving a veterans cemetery from San Francisco to Modesto to make way for low-income housing.” False.
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “"California Gov. Jerry Brown To Force Schools To Show Kids ‘Gay Sex’ As Part Of Inclusive LGBT Curriculum."” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “California Gov. Jerry Brown Outlaws Homelessness” False.
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Claimed: ““Here are the facts: there is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California. Overall immigrant apprehensions on the border last year were as low as they’ve been in nearly 50 years (and 85 percent of the apprehensions occurred outside of California).”” — rated True by PolitiFact.
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Snopes rated the claim “California governor Jerry Brown will release 10,000 convicted sex offenders following a judge's ruling.” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a new "culture" bill requiring that Arabic, not "American," numbers be taught in schools.” False.
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The governor proposed spending $120 million to establish California's first fully online community college by fall 2019
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2017· 3 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “"Crime has been getting worse since Jerry Brown was elected governor."” Mostly False.
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Awarded honorary doctorate from ENS (2017).
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PolitiFact rated the claim “California Gov. Jerry Brown was “Caught in the Middle of a $60 Billion Corruption Investigation.”” Pants on Fire.
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2016· 2 entries
Claimed: “Says Indiana Gov. Mike Pence "denies that there's such a thing as evolution."” — rated True by PolitiFact.
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Brown vetoed a bill to exempt feminine hygiene products from state sales taxes, at the same time that he vetoed other bills which would also have exempted diapers, saying that collectively, these exemptions would have re
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2015· 1 entry
Brown moved into the Historic Governor's Mansion, now part of Governor's Mansion State Historic Park
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2014· 2 entries
Kashkari accused Brown of failing to improve California's business climate
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Brown indicated that a "war chest" would have helped his campaign for an alternative to Proposition 13
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2013· 2 entries
Became the longest-serving governor in the history of California, surpassing Earl Warren
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Brown proposed a large, $25 billion Bay Delta Conservation Plan (later renamed the California Water Fix and Eco Restore project) to build two large, four-story-tall, 30-mile-long (48 km) tunnels to carry fresh water from
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2012· 2 entries
Brown signed a budget that made deep cuts to social services with the assumption that voters would pass $8 billion in tax increases in November 2012 to close California's $15
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“We need budget cuts. We need the continued growth of the economy for a long period of time. We”
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2011· 3 entries
Succeeding Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger who had been officially term-limited
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Career landmark: Governor of California (2011–2019).
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Jerry and Anne Gust Brown acquired a Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Sutter Brown, dubbed the "first dog" of California
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2010· 3 entries
With the execution of Albert Greenwood Brown after the lifting of a statewide moratorium by a California court
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And 2014, his eligibility to do so having stemmed from California's constitutional grandfather clause
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Following the expiration of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's term
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2007· 1 entry
Career landmark: Attorney General of California (2007–2011).
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2005· 1 entry
In a ceremony officiated by Senator Dianne Feinstein in the Rotunda Building in downtown Oakland
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2004· 3 entries
After failing to pass in 2002, thus making permanent the city's shift to the strong mayor model of governance
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Barzaghi left Brown's staff in July 2004, six days after police had responded to his residence over a complaint of domestic violence, and later moved to Morocco and then Normandy.
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Brown expressed interest to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General of California in the 2006 election, and in May 2004, he formally filed to run
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1999· 1 entry
Career landmark: mayor of Oakland (1999–2007).
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1996· 1 entry
Brown unsuccessfully urged Oakland mayor Elihu Harris to appoint him to a seat on the Oakland Port Commission
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1995· 2 entries
Brown hosted a daily call-in talk show on the local Pacifica Radio station, KPFA-FM, in Berkeley broadcast to major U
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With Brown's political career at a low point, in the motion picture Jade, the fictional governor of California tells an assistant district attorney to drop a case, "unless you want as much of a future in this state as Je
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1992· 3 entries
Election lost: 1992 presidential election.
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Campaign: 1992 presidential election.
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But losing the Democratic primary to Bill Clinton
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1991· 1 entry
Proclaiming Brown to be just as serious as any other politician
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1990· 1 entry
Such as Dianne Feinstein's attempt to become the first female governor of California
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1988· 1 entry
Brown announced that he would stand as a candidate to become chairman of the California Democratic Party, and won against investment banker Steve Westly
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1987· 1 entry
After a strong campaign financed by business interests upset by her "pro-labor" and "pro-free speech" rulings
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1984· 2 entries
Was still mistrusted by the Jewish community
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The official gubernatorial portrait of Jerry Brown, commemorating his first period as Governor of California, was painted by Don Bachardy and unveiled in 1984.
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1982· 6 entries
Author Roger Rapaport wrote in his 1982 Brown biography California Dreaming: The Political Odyssey of Pat & Jerry Brown, "This combination clerk, chauffeur, fashion consultant, decorator, and trusted friend had no discernible powers.
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Instead making an unsuccessful run for the United States Senate that same year, losing to San Diego mayor and future governor Pete Wilson
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And instead ran for the United States Senate, but lost to San Diego mayor Pete Wilson
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Brown chose not to seek a third term as governor; instead, he ran for the United States Senate for the seat being vacated by Republican S
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Succeeding Brown, and was re-elected overwhelmingly in 1986
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Many considered Brown's political career to be over
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1981· 2 entries
Also appointed the first openly lesbian judge in the United States, Mary C
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Brown, who had established a reputation as a strong environmentalist, was confronted with a serious medfly infestation in the San Francisco Bay Area
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1980· 3 entries
Election won: 1980 presidential election.
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Campaign: 1980 presidential election.
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Brown challenged Carter for renomination
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1978· 2 entries
Against Republican state attorney general Evelle J
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San Francisco punk band the Dead Kennedys' first single, "California über alles", from the album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, was released; it was performed from the perspective of then-governor Brown painting a p
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1977· 1 entry
Sponsored the "first-ever tax incentive for rooftop solar", among many environmental initiatives
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1976· 4 entries
Late in the primary season and over a year after some candidates had started campaigning
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Campaign: 1976 presidential election.
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Brown proposed the establishment of a state space academy and the purchasing of a satellite that would be launched into orbit to provide emergency communications for the state
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“The country is rich, but not so rich as we have been led to believe. The choice to do one thing may preclude another. In short, we are entering an era of limits.”
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1975· 3 entries
Brown obtained the repeal of the "depletion allowance", a tax break for the state's oil industry, despite the efforts of lobbyist Joseph C
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Brown opposed Vietnamese immigration to California, saying that the state had enough poor people
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Career landmark: Governor of California (1975–1983).
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1974· 3 entries
Brown was elected Governor of California over California state controller Houston I
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Brown ran in a highly contested Democratic primary for Governor of California against speaker of the California Assembly Bob Moretti, San Francisco mayor Joseph L
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Making him the youngest California governor in 111 years
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1971· 1 entry
Career landmark: Secretary of State of California (1971–1975).
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1970· 1 entry
Brown was elected California secretary of state
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1969· 1 entry
Brown ran for the newly created Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees, which oversaw community colleges in the city; he placed first in a field of 124 and served until 1971
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1965· 1 entry
And had been so admitted to practice ever since
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1963· 1 entry
Brown went on to Yale Law School and graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1964
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1955· 1 entry
Brown entered Santa Clara University for a year and left to attend Sacred Heart Novitiate, a Jesuit novice house in Los Gatos, intent on becoming a Catholic priest
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1938· 2 entries
Born 1938-04-07.
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The only son of four children born to district attorney of San Francisco and later governor of California, Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr
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