Jerry Brown

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Jerry Brown is an American Democratic politician who served multiple terms as governor of California and ran several times for the U.S. presidency.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf American politician
Democrat
human
birthName Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.
candidateInElection 1976 Democratic Party presidential primaries
1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries
1992 Democratic Party presidential primaries
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1938-04-07
educatedAt University of California, Berkeley
Yale Law School
endTime 1983-01-03
2019-01-07
familyName Brown
father Pat Brown
fieldOfStudy law
gender male
givenName Edmund
Gerald
ideology fiscal conservatism (relative within Democratic Party)
progressivism
languageSpoken English
memberOfPoliticalParty Democratic Party (United States)
mother Bernice Layne Brown
name Jerry Brown
nickname Governor Moonbeam
notableFor environmental policy initiatives in California
fiscal austerity measures as governor
notableWork promotion of California’s cap-and-trade climate program
officeHeldDuringPeriod Governor of California (first tenure)
Governor of California (second tenure)
placeOfBirth San Francisco, California, United States
positionHeld Attorney General of California
Chair of the California Democratic Party
Governor of California
Mayor of Oakland, California
Secretary of State of California
precededBy Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ronald Reagan
ranForOffice President of the United States
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Colusa County, California, United States
Oakland, California, United States
spouse Anne Gust Brown
startTime 1975-01-06
2011-01-03
succeededBy Gavin Newsom
George Deukmejian
workLocation Sacramento, California, United States


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