Jerry Brown

Jerry Brown (born April 7, 1938, San Francisco, California, U.S.) is an American Democratic politician who served as governor of California (1975–83; 2011–19), mayor of Oakland, California (1999–2007), and California’s attorney general (2007–11). Brown was one of the four children of Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, who served as governor of California from 1959 to 1967. The younger Brown attended both public and parochial schools as a child, and in 1956, after spending a year at...