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Brown family of San Francisco, California

Note: This is just one of 1,164 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

  Edmund Gerald Brown Sr. (1905-1996) — also known as Edmund G. Brown, Sr.; Pat Brown — of San Francisco, Calif.; Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in San Francisco, Calif., April 21, 1905. Democrat. Lawyer; Republican candidate for California state assembly, 1928; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1944, 1948, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1988; California state attorney general, 1951-59; Governor of California, 1959-67; defeated, 1966; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1960. Catholic. Member, American Bar Association; Elks; Moose; Eagles; Native Sons of the Golden West. Died of a heart attack, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, Calif., February 16, 1996 (age 90 years, 301 days). Interment at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
  Relatives: Son of Edmund Brown and Ida (Schuckman) Brown; brother of Harold C. Brown; married, October 30, 1930, to Bernice Layne Brown; father of Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. and Kathleen Lynn Brown.
  Political family: Brown family of San Francisco, California.
  Cross-reference: Warren Christopher — William K. Coblentz
  The Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct, a system of canals and pipelines that brings water to Southern California, in Contra Costa, Alameda, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Fresno, Kings, Kern, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles counties, is named for him.
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Edmund G. Brown: Ethan Rarick, California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown
  Harold C. Brown (c.1908-1998) — of California. Born about 1908. Municipal judge in California, 1964-66; Judge, California Court of Appeal, 1966-76. Member, Humane Society. Died in San Rafael, Marin County, Calif., May 19, 1998 (age about 90 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Brother of Edmund Gerald Brown Sr.; uncle of Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. and Kathleen Lynn Brown.
  Political family: Brown family of San Francisco, California.
  Bernice Layne Brown (1908-2002) — also known as Bernice Layne — Born in San Francisco, Calif., November 19, 1908. School teacher; First Lady of California, 1959-67. Female. Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., May 9, 2002 (age 93 years, 171 days). Interment at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
  Relatives: Daughter of Arthur Daniel Layne and Alice M. (Cuneo) Layne; married, October 30, 1930, to Edmund Gerald Brown Sr.; mother of Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. and Kathleen Lynn Brown.
  Political family: Brown family of San Francisco, California.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (b. 1938) — also known as Edmund G. Brown, Jr.; Jerry Brown; "Governor Moonbeam" — of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif.; Oakland, Alameda County, Calif. Born in San Francisco, Calif., April 7, 1938. Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1968; secretary of state of California, 1971-75; Governor of California, 1975-83, 2011-; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1976, 1980, 1992; candidate for U.S. Senator from California, 1982; California Democratic state chair, 1989-91; mayor of Oakland, Calif., 1999-2007; California state attorney general, 2007-10. Catholic; later Buddhist. Still living as of 2019.
  Relatives: Son of Edmund Gerald Brown Sr. and Bernice Layne Brown; brother of Kathleen Lynn Brown; married, June 18, 2005, to Anne Gust; nephew of Harold C. Brown.
  Political family: Brown family of San Francisco, California.
  Cross-reference: Gray Davis
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile
  Books by Jerry Brown: The Jerry Brown Reader (2004)
  Kathleen Lynn Brown (b. 1945) — also known as Kathleen Brown — of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in San Francisco, Calif., September 25, 1945. Democrat. Lawyer; California state treasurer, 1991-95; candidate for Governor of California, 1994. Female. Still living as of 2022.
  Relatives: Daughter of Edmund Gerald Brown Sr. and Bernice Layne Brown; sister of Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.; married to George Rice and Van Gordon Sauter; niece of Harold C. Brown.
  Political family: Brown family of San Francisco, California.
  See also Wikipedia article
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