Gov. Jerry Brown

Gov. Jerry Brown

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Legislative leaders and Gov. Jerry Brown celebrate budget deal with a formal announcement

By David Siders - Updated: 12:07 pm

California lawmakers have adopted on-time budgets so rarely in recent decades that the one they negotiated with Gov. Jerry Brown this week filled the Capitol with an air of self-satisfaction -- if not disbelief.

Brown says he hasn't agreed to consider future spending hikes

By David Siders - Updated: Wednesday, June 12 2013 - 8:51 am

One day after reaching a compromise with legislative leaders on the state budget, Gov. Jerry Brown said Tuesday he has not agreed to consider increased spending if the economy outperforms his administration's expectations.

Brown, Democratic leaders reach deal on budget

By David Siders and Jim Sanders - Updated: Tuesday, June 11 2013 - 4:20 pm

Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders reached agreement Monday on major elements of the state budget, including a compromise on Brown's controversial proposal to shift more money to poor and English-learning students.

Dan Walters: Jerry Brown's allegiance to 'subsidiarity' will be tested

By Dan Walters - Updated: Monday, June 10 2013 - 8:42 am

Jerry Brown is fond of citing "subsidiarity" as a guiding principle of his governorship – a $5 word roughly meaning local control is usually the best public policy.

Viewpoints: Here comes yet another school funding fix

By Peter Schrag - Published: Friday, May 31 2013 - 12:00 am

Earlier this month, as an Assembly Budget subcommittee was preparing to re-slice Gov. Jerry Brown's local-control school funding sausage, state Controller John Chiang's office issued a scathing report about the mess in the financial practices of the Oakland Unified School District.

Poll: Californians back governor's budget, school plan

By Jeremy B. White - Published: Wednesday, May 29 2013 - 9:09 pm

While Democratic lawmakers push Gov. Jerry Brown for a more generous budget, clear majorities of Californians affirmed the governor's cautious approach in a new Public Policy Institute of California poll.

Jerry Brown has opportunities, risks in massive public works agenda

By David Siders - Updated: Wednesday, May 29 2013 - 8:24 am

On a TV special one night in February, Gov. Jerry Brown appeared live on location to start a countdown to the planned Labor Day weekend opening of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Gov. Jerry Brown takes cautious approach on California budget

GOV. BROWN'S INAUGURATION SPEECHES

See Brown's 1975, 1979 speeches in word clouds.
Text of First Inaugural Address
Text of Second Inaugural Address
Text of Third Inaugural Address

Governor Jerry Brown on Capitol Alert

District attorneys, victims' advocates urge veto of budget trailer

Jerry Brown posts banner fundraising week

California Democrats wrap up budget, flex supermajority power

California lawmakers pass state budget bill

Adult day care legislation dies after 'awkward conversation'

Jerry Brown archives

Brown's inaugural and state of the state addresses

General Information

Jerry Brown

Democrat, Oakland, CA

Birthdate: April 7, 1938

Occupation: Attorney General

Education: Law degree, Yale Law School ; bachelor's degree in classics, University of California, Berkeley

Residence: Oakland

Experience: Attorney general, 2007-present; mayor of Oakland, 1999-2007; Chairman, the California Democratic Party, 1989-91; California governor, 1975-82; secretary of state, 1971-75; Los Angeles Community College trustee, 1969-70

Contact information: www.gov.ca.gov