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• Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown is the current State Attorney General of California with over 35 years of political activism and elected offices in California. Jerry Brown served as Governor of California from 1975 through 1982. He lost a bid for a California Senate seat in 1992, but was elected Mayor of Oakland in 1998.

  Brown filed papers on September 29, 2009 to formally explore a run for Governor of California in 2010. [1] <ref> This move increases the amount individual donors can give to his campaign from the $6,500 allowed for candidates for attorney general to $25,900.

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: San Francisco, April 7, 1938California State: Office of the Attorney General: Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
  2. Spouse: Anne GustCalifornia State: Office of the Attorney General: Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
  3. Previous employment: Sacred Heart Novitiate; ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1958California State: Office of the Attorney General: Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
  4. Education: University of California, Berkeley, BA Classics, 1961; Yale University, JD, 1964California State: Office of the Attorney General: Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
  5. Was a Jesuit priest from 1958-1960California State: Office of the Attorney General: Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
  6. Elected California Secretary of State in 1970California State: Office of the Attorney General: Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
  7. Governor of California, 1974-1982California State: Office of the Attorney General: Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
  8. Ran for president in 1991California State: Office of the Attorney General: Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
  9. Mayor of Oakland, 1998-2006California State: Office of the Attorney General: Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
  10. Attorney General, 2006-presentNew York Times: The Comeback Kid (November 26, 2006)
  11. Brown launched a second run for the 2010 California governor's raceJerry Brown.com: Jerry Brown 2010

• Quotes

  "What an irony that the spirit of Democracy is bursting out all over the world, while in America democratic choice narrows and is rendered almost illusory. In place of debate and serious public discourse, we are bombarded with 30-second TV ads and short sound bites that obscure and distort the truth."—Jerry BrownChristian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/1991/1021/21081.html The Return of Jerry Brown] (October 21, 1991)

  "I see in Jerry two conflicting streaks. He's a real political animal. He knows politics and goes for the jugular. But he's also a real seminarian. He wants to save souls. A lot of politicians make 180-degree turns, but Jerry is the 180-degree kid. All politicians have to be chameleons. But Jerry stretches the definition to the limit."—Robert ReinholdNew York Times: THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: California; Who Is Jerry Brown? (April 2, 1992)

  "Jerry Brown was once a man ahead of his time. Elected governor of the largest state in the union in 1974 at age 34, he was the first major liberal politician to advance positions that have today become conventional wisdom: the U.S. has entered an "era of limits" requiring increased environmental concern; government cannot solve all problems; the budget should be balanced; the country must invest in people and technological innovation, among others."—Fred BranfmanSalon.com: Jerry Brown Moving toward the Abyss (June 3, 1996)

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