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Jerry Brown Two Terms As Governor 1975-1983

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Jerry Brown Two Terms As Governor 1975-1983, Edmund Gerald “Jerry” Brown, Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California (1975-83), and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor (2011-present). He is the son of Pat Brown, the 32nd Governor of California (1959-67).

Both before and after his first two terms as governor, Brown was elected to a number of state, local and party offices. Brown previously served as a member of the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees (1969-1971), Secretary of State of California (1971-1975), chairman of the California Democratic Party (1989-1991), Mayor of Oakland (1999-2007) and Attorney General of California (2007-2011).

At the time of his election to a third, non-consecutive term as governor, on November 2, 2010, Brown was serving as the 31st Attorney General of California, an elected position. Brown was formally inaugurated as governor on January 3, 2011, the 28th anniversary of the end of his last term. During his first term (as California’s 34th Governor), he was the sixth-youngest Governor of that state. Upon his inauguration as California’s 39th Governor, he became its oldest serving governor. At the age of 73, Brown is also the oldest currently serving governor in the United States.

In 1974, Brown was in a three-person primary race with Speaker of the California Assembly Bob Moretti and San Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto. Alioto had support in Northern California and Moretti in Southern California. Brown had the name recognition of his father, Pat Brown, whom Democrats fondly remembered for his progressive administration. Brown won the primary, and in the General Election on November 5, 1974, Brown was elected Governor of California over California State Controller Houston I. Flournoy. Republicans ascribed the loss to anti-Republican feelings from Watergate, the election being held only ninety days after President Richard Nixon resigned from office. Brown succeeded Republican Governor Ronald Reagan, who had planned on retiring from office after serving two terms. Eight years after his father left Sacramento in 1967, Jerry Brown took office on January 6, 1975.
On November 7, 1978, Jerry Brown was re-elected governor. The Republican candidate was state Attorney General Evelle J. Younger, (1918-1989) a former Los Angeles County District Attorney. Jerry Brown had the attention of the state, national and international media.

Brown was responsible for appointing the first openly gay judge in the United States when he named Stephen Lachs to serve on the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1979. In 1981, he also appointed the first openly lesbian judge in the United States, Mary C. Morgan of the San Francisco Municipal Court. Brown completed his second term having appointed a total of five openly gay judges, including Rand Schrader and Jerold Krieger. Brown had completed his first term as governor without appointing any openly gay people to any position, but he cited the failed 1978 Briggs Initiative, which sought to ban homosexuals from working in California’s public schools, for his increased support of gay rights.

Pat Brown California Governor

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Pat Brown California Governor, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown
1959 – 1967
Significant Facts
Born:April 21, 1905 in San Francisco, California
Died: February 16, 1996 in Beverly Hills, California
Married:Bernice Layne on October 30, 1930 in Reno, Nevada
Political Party: Democrat

Biography
As a boy growing up in San Francisco, Brown earned his own money by delivering two newspapers-the Call and the Chronicle. After graduating from high school, Brown studied law at the San Francisco College of Law, where he graduated first in his class. While he was in law school, he worked for Milton Schmitt, a blind attorney. After he graduated from law school, Brown continued to work for Mr. Schmitt and upon Schmitt’s death, Brown took over the practice.

On January 8, 1944, Brown was sworn into office as San Francisco’s District Attorney, a post he held until 1950 when he became the state’s Attorney General. He served two terms as California’s Attorney General.

In 1958, Brown was elected Governor, winning by more than 1 million votes. Four years later, Brown defeated Richard Nixon to serve a second term as Governor. While in office, Brown achieved a statewide water plan and improvements in higher education. Brown also ended the practice of cross-filing for political candidates, and backed the use of computers in state government. His most controversial move was when he granted a 60-day reprieve to Caryl Chessman, who was convicted of rape and kidnapping with bodily harm (and eventually executed).

Governor Brown died as a result of a heart attack. He was 90 years old.

Jerry Brown’s Wife

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Jerry Brown’s Wife, After Gov.-elect Jerry Brown wrapped up his first post-election news conference Wednesday, TV crews and reporters swarmed California’s future first lady, Anne Gust, to discern what role she will play in her husband’s administration.

Gust, who played fundraiser and helped manage Brown’s gubernatorial campaign, said she hadn’t figured out how she would fit in yet.

“I know my role will be unpaid, whatever it is,” she told reporters. “But I assume I’ll continue to advise him and help him in whatever way is best, that he feels best.”

She has been a key political confidant and advisor to Brown since her departure five years ago from Gap Inc., where she served first as general counsel to the clothing retailer and then chief administrative officer.

She managed Brown’s campaign for attorney general in 2006 and made the transition into a de facto chief of staff in that office for Brown’s first two years.

On Tuesday night, before delivering his victory speech, Brown called his wife “the most important person of all, who really ran the whole show and kept me on track. I don’t need a plan when I have such a good planner at my side all the time.”

On Wednesday, Gust said she enjoys working in government. “Government involves such important issues,” she said of her time in the attorney general’s office. “Almost everything we dealt with was in the paper every day and very important to California. So it’s very inspiring that way when you wake up every day and know you’re really dealing with important issues.”

Asked whether she would advocate for any particular causes, Gust said, “There’s a lot of important issues that will face California, and wherever I can be most helpful is where I’d like to be.”

Wives Of Politicians

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Wives Of Politicians, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has acknowledged having an extramarital affair with Callista , then a congressional aide and now his third wife, while he was married to his second wife.
Political wives have been at the top of the news this week.

There’s Maria Shriver and her husband’s infidelity; Callista Gingrich, the third wife of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich; and Cheri Daniels, the politically reluctant spouse of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels who, years ago, divorced her current husband, married another man, then came back.

It’s striking, really, considering it wasn’t so long ago that the private lives of politicians were considered off limits, and even protected by the media.

Not so today. The question is asked every election: What right to privacy does a candidate’s family have – and what’s fair game?

Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, watches as her husband, Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown, gives his victory speech after being elected senator in 2006.

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Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, watches as her husband, Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown, gives his victory speech after being elected senator in 2006.

‘A Mere Appendage’

“There is no definition of ‘fair game,’ ” says Republican political consultant Mary Matalin. “So whatever you think it is, you can disabuse yourself of any of that notion.”

Matalin has worked with some of the most powerful politicians in the country. She says being the wife of a high-profile candidate – along with the accompanying media exposure and the combing through your past – is just awful.

“It’s unfair, it’s irrational, it’s pain that’s relentless,” she says. “And if you can develop a defense for yourself, you can never develop a defense for your loved ones.”

When a nasty campaign hurts the family’s children, says Matalin, even the most steeled political wife breaks down.

There is no definition of ‘fair game.’ So whatever you think it is, you can disabuse yourself of any of that notion.

– Republican political consultant Mary Matalin

Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and for the past seven years, the wife of Ohio politician Sherrod Brown.

“I was not prepared for morphing into a mere appendage of my husband’s campaign,” she says.

Schultz campaigned with her husband when he ran for the Senate in 2006. She says young staffers, or even just bystanders at political events, would tell her to cut her hair, wear other clothes or act differently onstage.

Schultz thinks this is, at least in part, plain old-fashioned sexism. “I wanna buy tickets to that show if anyone thinks they’re going to start lining up husbands and telling them how to behave,” she says.

Schultz believes that it’s up to the individual candidate and spouse to set the boundaries of their privacy, and that they should then defend them vigorously. The voracious appetite for private details, she says, doesn’t do anybody any good.

“Marriages are complicated things,” she adds. “The healthiest of marriages are complicated. And yet we want to make them caricatures.”

Kenyon College

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Kenyon College, private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, was founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of the Episcopal Church, together with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest institution of private higher education in Ohio. The campus is known for its Collegiate Gothic architecture and rustic setting, and was named one of the most beautiful campus in the world by Forbes magazine in 2010. Old Kenyon Hall, built in 1827, according to the authors, is the oldest Gothic Revival in America, even though it had been burned twice and was rebuilt. 2005 Princeton Review and Fiske Guide to schools in 2005 was awarded the highest rating university academic. Furthermore, in 2006, Newsweek selected Kenyon College as one of 25 “New Ivies,” based on the recognition of Statistics as well as interviews with administrators, students, faculty and alumni. In 2009, Forbes magazine seat Kenyon # 22 of the 600 colleges and universities in the list of best universities in the United States 2009. Kenyon College is accredited higher education commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
After becoming the first bishop of Ohio in 1818, Philander Chase found a severe shortage of trained clerics on the border of Ohio. A seminar is envisaged to correct this problem, but could not expect much support. Discouraged, he sailed to England and sought donations from Lord Kenyon, Lord Gambier, and the writer and philanthropist Hannah More, and the College was registered in December 1824. Unhappy with the original location of a school in Worthington, Chase has acquired 8,000 acres (32 km ²) of land in Knox County (with a lawyer in Mount Vernon, Henry Curtis), and what he called the Mount Gambier on 24 July 1825. There is a legend that Bishop Chase said, “Well, this will be done” to reach the top of the hill.
Kenyon sports teams competing in the North Coast Athletic Conference, known as Ladies and gentlemen, and the color purple, black and white gold are often added as an accent. men’s swimming team of the university is considered the best in the NCAA Division III, for the victory, for the period 1980-2010, a report by the National Council on 31 consecutive national championships. Women’s swimming team is also considered one of the best, winning 23 titles of its own (not consecutive) in 1984. Swimming coach Jim Steen trained more conference titles in any sport in NCAA history. In 1980? S and 90? S, Diving Coach Fletcher gilders athletes took 14 consecutive North Coast Athletic Conference championships and eight individual NCAA Division III title; gilders also obtain D3 NCAA Coach of the Year on three separate occasions.

In 2006, Kenyon and opened a 70 million Kenyon Athletic Center (KAC), 263 000 square feet (24 434 m², 6 acres), buildings, houses the Olympic pool, two basketball courts, eight squash courts, gym, tennis 200 meters, 4 tennis courts and other facilities.

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