- Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975). Reagan was born in Illinois, but moved to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he starred in numerous "B" movies and became President of the Screen Actors Guild. He was a prominent Democrat who supported the New Deal Coalition in the 1940s, and was a leading opponent of Communism in Hollywood. - Gray Davis
Described by the San Jose Mercury News as "perhaps the best-trained Governor-in-waiting California has ever produced," Governor Gray Davis has made improving public education his administration's number-one priority. As his first official act as Governor, he called a special session of the Legislature to address his proposals to ensure that every child can read by age 9, strengthen teacher training and education, and increase accountability in the schools. - Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (born April 7, 1938), is the Attorney General for the state of California. Brown has had a lengthy political career spanning terms on the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees (1969-1971), as California Secretary of State (1971-1975), as Governor of California (1975-1983), as chair of the California Democratic Party (1989-1991), and as Mayor of Oakland (1998-2006). - Pete Wilson
Peter Barton Wilson is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator (1983–1991), eleven years as Mayor of San Diego (1971–1983) and five years as a California State Assemblyman (1967–1971). - Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–87) and the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1964 election. He is the American politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. Goldwater rejected the legacy of the New Deal and fought inside the Conservative coalition to defeat the New Deal coalition. - Nancy Reagan
Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins on July 6, 1921) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Reagan was born in New York in 1921 and moved to California in the 1940s, where she became an actress before meeting her husband, Ronald Reagan. They married in 1952, and had two children. Reagan became First Lady of California in 1967 with her husband's gubernatorial victory, … - Earl Warren
Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 - July 9, 1974) was a California district attorney of Alameda County, the 20th Attorney General of California, the 30th Governor of California, and the 14th Chief Justice of the United States (from 1953 to 1969). As Chief Justice, his term of office was marked by numerous rulings affecting, among other things, the legal status of racial segregation, civil rights, separation of church and state, and police arrest procedure in the United States. - Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr. (April 21, 1905 - February 16, 1996) was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967. - Bill Simon
William Edward Simon, Jr. (born June 20, 1951), best known as Bill Simon, is an American businessman and politician. Simon was born in Neptune, New Jersey, the son of William E. Simon, Sr., the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Coincidentally, Simon was a childhood friend of current Democratic party chair Howard Dean. Simon earned a B.A. from Williams College in 1973, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, … - Leland Stanford
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 - June 21, 1893) was an American tycoon, politician and founder of Stanford University. He was born in Watervliet, New York, one of eight children of Josiah and Elizabeth Phillips Stanford. Stanford's ancestors settled in the Mohawk Valley of New York around 1720. He attended Clifton Liberal Institute, in Clifton, New York, and studied law at Cazenovia Seminary in Cazenovia, New York and later in Albany. - Tom Bradley
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley (December 29, 1917 - September 29, 1998) was the mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1973 to 1993 (five terms) and only the second African American mayor of a major U.S. city. The first was Carl Stokes of Cleveland, Ohio, who was elected in 1967. He unsuccessfully ran for Governor of California in 1982 and 1986. The racial dynamics that appeared to underly Bradley's narrow and unexpected loss in 1982 gave rise to the term "the Bradley effect". - Richard Riordan
Richard J. Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is a Republican politician from California, USA who served as the California Secretary of Education from 2003-2005 and as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1993-2001. Riordan ran for Governor of California unsuccessfully in 2002. A Catholic, he is married to Nancy Daly Riordan and has three daughters from his first marriage. - George Deukmejian
Courken George Deukmejian, Jr. (born July 6, 1928) is an American Republican politician from California, the thirty-fifth Governor of California (1983-1991), and a former California Attorney General (1979-1983). - Darrell Issa
Darrell E. Issa (pronounced "Eye"-suh) (born November 1 1953) is an American politician and former CEO of a consumer electronics company. A Republican, since 2001 he has been a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 49th District of California. His district consists of portions of southern Riverside County and northern San Diego County. - George Pardee
George Cooper Pardee (July 25, 1857 - September 1, 1941) was a medical doctor and was known as the "Earthquake Governor of California," holding office from January 6, 1903 to January 9, 1907. He was born in 1857 in San Francisco, California, to Enoch and Mary Pardee. Prior to his stint as governor, Pardee served as Mayor of the City of Oakland, California. George Pardee was an important Progressive Era voice in California Republican politics, … - Hiram Johnson
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866 - August 6, 1945) was a leading American progressive and later isolationist politician from California; he served as Governor from 1911 to 1917, and as a United States Senator from 1917 to 1945. - Henry Huntly Haight
Henry Huntly Haight (May 20, 1825 - September 2, 1878) was Governor of California from December 5, 1867 to December 8, 1871. Born in Rochester, New York, he graduated from Yale University. He is credited with creating the University of California. He died in 1878 and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California. He was the first governor to use the offices in the California State Capitol. - Ron Reagan
Ronald Prescott Reagan (born May 20, 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA), usually known as Ron Reagan, is the son of the late former President of the United States Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy. He is currently a political commentator for the cable television network MSNBC as well as a talk show host on and chief political analyst for KIRO radio in Seattle. In May 2006, he became part of the regular line-up on 710 KIRO, … - Steve Kubby
Steve Wynn Kubby (born December 28 1946) is a Libertarian Party activist who played a key role in the drafting and passage of California Proposition 215. The proposition was a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana which was approved by voters in 1996. Kubby himself is well-known as a cancer patient who relies on medical cannabis. He has authored two books on drug policy reform: "The Politics of Consciousness", and "Why Marijuana Should Be Legal". - Bill Jones
William Leon Jones (born December 20, 1949) is a U.S. politician from California who served in the California State Assembly and later served as California's 27th Secretary of State. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of California in 2002 as well as an unsuccessful candidate to the United States Senate from California in 2004 against incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer. - Jane Harman
Jane Lakes Harman (born June 28 1945), is a seven-term Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 36th District of California (map). She attended Los Angeles public schools, Smith College, and Harvard Law School. On November 7, 2006, she was reelected to the 110th Congress, defeating Republican challenger Brian Gibson. Harman is both a Blue Dog Democrat and a member of the New Democrat Coalition. - Culbert Olson
Culbert Levy Olson (November 7, 1876 - April 13, 1962) was an American politician and twenty-ninth Governor of California from 1939 to 1943. - Kathleen Brown
Kathleen Brown (b. 15th October 1946) is Democratic politician from California. She is the daughter of former Governor Pat Brown and the sister of California Attorney General Jerry Brown (also a former Governor of California). Brown is an attorney and was first elected to the Los Angeles City Board of Education in 1975, and reelected in 1979. She was elected California State Treasurer in 1990. - Newton Booth
Newton Booth (December 30, 1825 - July 14, 1892) was an American politician. Born in Salem, Indiana, he attended the common schools. In 1841, his parents Beebe and Hannah Booth moved from Salem to Terre Haute, Indiana. Newton graduated from Asbury University, later renamed DePauw University, in nearby Greencastle, Indiana. He studied law in Terre Haute and was admitted to the bar in 1850. In the same year he moved to California, … - Felipe de Neve
Felipe de Neve was the first Spanish governor of Las Californias, an area that included present day California, Baja California and Baja California Sur. His tenure as governor was from 1777 to 1782. It was during his administration that the city of Los Angeles was founded. He recommended to the viceroy of Mexico at the time to establish a settlement where Father Juan Crespi met local Indians. With the approval of Neve was granted authority from The Crown, … - Romualdo Pacheco
José Antonio Romualdo Pacheco, Jr. was an American politician and California governor and representative to the US House of Representatives. He is the only Hispanic governor in the state's history. Pacheco represented California in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1877 to February 7, 1878, and from March 4, 1879 to March 3, 1883. - Bruce McPherson
Bruce McPherson became California's 30th Secretary of State on March 30, 2005. After being nominated by the Governor, he was unanimously confirmed by the State Senate and Assembly. Over the past year Secretary McPherson has led the charge to restore trust and confidence to the Office of Secretary of State. - Goodwin Knight
Goodwin Jess Knight (December 9, 1896 - May 22, 1970) was a U.S. politician who was the 31st Governor of California from 1953 until 1959. Knight was born in Provo, Utah, but his family moved to Los Angeles when he was a boy. His father, Jess Knight, was a mining engineer, but Goodwin followed in his mother's (Lille) father's (John B. Milner) footsteps. This grandfather was a judge in Provo, Utah. Knight attended high school in Los Angeles, at Manual Arts High School. - Gustav Schwarzenegger
Gustav Schwarzenegger (August 17, 1907 - December 1, 1972) was an Austrian police chief ("Gendarmeriekommandant"), postal inspector, a senior non-commissioned military police officer, who later became notable as the father of Hollywood star and Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger. - John Bigler
John Bigler (January 8, 1805 - November 29, 1871) was the third Governor of California. A Democrat, he was the first California governor to successfully complete an entire term in office, as well as the first to win re-election. His younger brother, William Bigler, was elected Governor of Pennsylvania during the same period. - James Rolph
James Rolph, Jr. (August 23, 1869 - June 2, 1934) was an American politician and a member of the Republican Party. He served one term as the 27th Governor of California from January 6, 1931 until his death and had previously been the Mayor of San Francisco from January 8, 1912 until resigning to become Governor. After attending school in the Mission District, he went to work as an office boy in a commission house. - Rose Bird
Rose Elizabeth Bird (November 2, 1936-December 4, 1999) served for 10 years as the 25th Chief Justice (and first female Chief Justice) of the California Supreme Court until removed from that office by the voters. - John G. Downey
John Gately Downey (June 24, 1827 - March 1, 1894) was an Irish-American politician and Governor of California from January 14, 1860 to January 10, 1862. Until the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003, Downey was California's only foreign-born governor. Downey is also the first Southern Californian to assume the governorship. - Frank Merriam
Frank Finley Merriam (December 22, 1865 - April 25, 1955) was an American politician and twenty-eighth Governor of California from June 2, 1934 until January 2, 1939. Assuming the governorship at the height of the Great Depression following the death of Governor James Rolph, Merriam famously defeated former Socialist Party member and Democratic candidate for Governor Upton Sinclair in the 1934 general elections. - John D. Sloat
John Drake Sloat (July 6, 1781 - November 28, 1867) was a commodore in the United States Navy and, in 1846, claimed California for the United States. He was born in Sloatsburg, New York, of Dutch ancestry, and orphaned at an early age, his father having been killed by a British soldier two months before he was born, and his mother dying a few years later. He was brought up by his maternal grandparents. - George Stoneman
George Stoneman, Jr. (August 22, 1822 - September 5, 1894) was a career U.S. Army officer, a Union cavalry general in the American Civil War, and the Governor of California between 1883 and 1887. - James Roosevelt
James Roosevelt was the oldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. He was born in New York City at 125 E. 36th Street and graduated from Harvard University in 1930. His siblings were Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and John Aspinwall Roosevelt. Roosevelt married Betsey Cushing, one of the famous Cushing sisters. They were divorced in 1940, after having moved to Hollywood, California, … - Juan Bautista Alvarado
Juan Bautista Valentin Alvarado y Vallejo (February 14, 1809 - July 13, 1882), was a Californio and two-time Governor of Alta California from 1836 to 1837, and 1842-1845. - William Irwin
William Irwin ("ca." 1827 - March 15, 1886) was a California politician from the Democratic Party, who served as governor of California between 1875 and 1880. He previously served as acting lieutenant governor of California for nine months in 1875. Born in Butler County, Ohio, Irwin graduated in 1848 from Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, where he would later become an instructor. - Pedro Fages
Don Pedro Fages Beleta (Catalan: Pere Fages i Beleta) (1734-1794), nicknamed "El Oso", was a soldier, explorer, and the second Spanish military Governor of New California from 1770 to 1774, and Governor of the Californias from 1782 to 1791. Fages was born in Guissona, Lleida province, Catalonia, Spain. In 1767, Lieutenant Fages left Spain with the Catalan volunteers for New Spain, to serve under Domingo Elizondo in Sonora.
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