NAME — Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr.
AGE-BIRTH DATE-BIRTHPLACE — 72; April 7, 1938; San Francisco.
PARTY — Democratic.
EXPERIENCE — California governor, 2011-present, California attorney general, 2007-2011; mayor of Oakland, 1998-2006; state Democratic Party chairman, 1989-1991; California governor, 1975-1983; California secretary of state, 1971-1974; Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees, 1969 to 1971. Ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976, 1980 and 1992. Worked as a law clerk to California Supreme Court Justice Mathew Tobriner and at Los Angeles law firms in the 1960s and 1980s.
EDUCATION — Bachelor’s degree, University of California, Berkeley, 1961; law degree, Yale University, 1964.
FAMILY — Wife, Anne Gust.
QUOTE — “I love this state and I know it works and I can tell you that in the last four years, we haven’t solved all the problems, but boy what momentum we have.”
