Politics

California Politics:

government

The Big Five (informal institution of the legislative leadership role)
 * the Assembly speaker
 * the Assembly minority leader
 * the Senate president pro tempore (Kevin de León)


 * the Senate minority leader (Jean Fuller)
 * the governor

first governor: Peter Hardeman Burnett
 * 1807: born in Nashville in Tennessee
 * educated him self in law & government
 * 1843: got elected to the povisional legislature
 * 1849: won the election for the new territory's 1st civilian governor
 * 1851: resigned from office

governor: Edmund G. Brown Jr.
 * born in San Francisco on April 7, 1938
 * father: Pat Brown - former California Governor
 * carrier:
 * 1) wanted to become a priest.
 * 2) studied law
 * 3) became a politician
 * secretary of state from 1971 to 1975
 * Governor of California from 1975 to 1983
 * ran for president four times without ever being nominated for the Democratic party
 * became Governor of California again in 2011