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In Oakland, Brown became involved as an activist in local political matters, including bay-front development and campaign finance reform. In 1996, Brown unsuccessfully urged Oakland mayor Elihu Harris to appoint him to a seat on the Oakland Port Commission.
May 3, 2024 · Jerry Brown, 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). He also staged three unsuccessful bids for the U.S. presidency. Learn more about Brown’s life and career.
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Jan 11, 2020 · Before Jerry Brown was a political chessmaster, he was a political novice. He grows up in a world apart from the political rise of his father, Governor Pat Brown, and enters the Jesuit novitiate...
Jan 4, 2019 · Out of political office for the first time in over a decade, Brown forms a political action committee and two study groups, the National Commission on Industrial Innovation and the...
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Dec 28, 2018 · — 1969: Jerry Brown wins his first political race, becoming a trustee for the Los Angeles Community College District. — 1970: Jerry Brown is elected secretary of state on a transparency platform and helped create California’s campaign ethics watchdog through a 1974 ballot measure.
Dec 28, 2018 · — 1970: Jerry Brown is elected secretary of state on a transparency platform and helped create California's campaign ethics watchdog through a 1974 ballot measure.
Jan 28, 2024 · Like his father, Jerry Brown always had national political ambitions. He ran for President three times, in 1976, 1980, and again in 1992. In 1982, he ran for the US Senate and lost to Republican Pete Wilson, who would later become California governor in the 1990s.
