- Democrat

- Defeated Republican Chuck Poochigian 56-38% in 2006 to
become Attorney General of California

- Completed freshman year at the University of Santa Clara
before entering Sacred Heart Novitiate, a Jesuit seminary in
August 1956

- Two years later, he took vows of poverty, chastity and
obedience

- In 1960, he left the Society of Jesus and enrolled at the
University of California at Berkeley. He received his B.A.
in Classics the next year

- Graduated from Yale Law School in 1964.

- Worked as a law clerk to California Supreme Court Justice
Mathew Tobriner

- Worked for the prestigious law firm, Tuttle & Taylor

- In 1970, he was elected California Secretary of State with
over 50% of the vote

- Defeated Republican Houston Flourny 50-47% to become
Governor of California, relected in Governor of California
in 1978 by defeating Republican Evelle Younger

- Defeated by Pete Wilson in the 1982 U.S. Senate race 51-45%

- In 1989 became chairman of the state Democratic Party,
resigned in 1991

- Sought the 1976, 1980, and 1992 Democratic Presidential
nomination, but lost all three times

- In 1998, Brown ran for mayor of Oakland against 11 other
candidates and won in the primary with 59% of the vote,
re-elected in 2002 with 64% of the vote.