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Jan 30, 2005 · 1 hr ago. Entertainment | Books. How California turned blue / Biography of ex-Gov. Pat Brown tracks the rise and reign of the state's Democrats. By Reviewed by Joshua Spivak Jan 30, 2005.
Feb 10, 2005 · Learn about the life and times of Pat Brown, the last prominent Democrat to govern California before the 1960s conservative backlash. The book covers his liberal achievements, his controversial stance on racial discrimination, and his downfall amid the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the Watts Riots.
Aftermath. References. Further reading. Statistics. External links. 1962 California gubernatorial election. The 1962 California gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1962. The Democratic incumbent, Pat Brown, ran for re-election against former U.S. vice president and 1960 Republican presidential nominee Richard Nixon.
Pat Brown: the ‘big-government man’. By Ethan Rarick. June 15, 2008 12 AM PT. When Pat Brown took office in 1959, California’s postwar population boom was roaring along full-throttle. The...
Feb 18, 1996 · Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, the former Governor of California who fathered the state's modern economic boom with expansive government programs to build freeways, vast water systems and public...
Feb 17, 1996 · Former Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, the patriarch of the state's greatest Democratic political dynasty who led California through boom days in the 1950s and early '60s, died last night at...
Sep 15, 2014 · Edmund G. “Pat” Brown (1905-1996) was California’s governor from 1959-1967, exemplified the best in public service and left a wide-ranging legacy that featured first and foremost the State Water Project (SWP) and California Aqueduct but also included the Fair Housing Act, the Fair Employment Act, the Master Plan for Higher Education and ...
