- published: 05 Jun 2012
- views: 413
- author: BeyondPixInterviews
Vimeo results:
Youtube results:
Loading...
..." width="225" height="168" class="playvideo1 gotop" onClick="activateTab('playlist1'); return false" style="display: block;" />
Open Collage in a new Window
Email the Collage
- Loading...
Loading suggestions ...
- Adolph Sutro
- Al Alquist
- Al Gore
- Alden Anderson
- Alma mater
- Angelo Joseph Rossi
- Anthony G. Brown
- Appeal
- Art Agnos
- Arthur Torres
- Bachelor of Arts
- Barbara Boxer
- Becky Skillman
- Bill Bolling
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Lockyer
- Bill Press
- Bob Huff
- Brad Owen
- Breast cancer
- Brian Calley
- Brian Krolicki
- Brian Schatz
- Buron Fitts
- C. C. Young
- C. K. Garrison
- California
- Care Not Cash
- Carol Corrigan
- Casey Cagle
- Catholic Church
- Charles Boxton
- Charles Calderon
- Charles O. Dunbar
- Chris Daly
- CNN
- Colin Powell
- Connie Conway
- Court TV
- Cow Hollow
- Cruz Bustamante
- Culbert Olson
- Current TV
- Danielle Steel
- Darrell Steinberg
- David C. Broderick
- David Dewhurst
- Debra Bowen
- Dianne Feinstein
- Drew Wrigley
- Dyslexia
- Ed Lee (politician)
- Edward B. Pond
- Edward R. Roybal
- Edwin M. Lee
- Edwin Reinecke
- Elizabeth H. Roberts
- Ellen Corbett
- Ellis E. Patterson
- Elmer Robinson
- Eloy Inos
- Ephraim Willard Burr
- Eugene Schmitz
- Faoa Aitofele Sunia
- Fiona Ma
- Fox News Channel
- Frank Jordan
- Frank McCoppin
- Frank Merriam
- Franklin Knight Lane
- Frederick F. Houser
- Gavin Newsom
- Gay marriage
- Gay rights
- General Assistance
- George Christopher
- George Hewston
- George J. Hatfield
- George J. Whelan
- George Monty Davis
- George Moscone
- Glenn F. McConnell
- Glenn M. Anderson
- Goodwin Knight
- Goodwin Liu
- Gordon Getty
- Governator
- Gray Davis
- Gregory Francis
- H. L. Carnahan
- H. L. Hutchinson
- Harold J. Powers
- Harper's Bazaar
- Henry Perrin Coon
- Homeless people
- Homosexuality
- I. B. Dockweiler
- Incumbent
- Indybay
- Isaac N. Quinn
- Isaac Smith Kalloch
- Jacob H. Neff
- James D. Phelan
- James G. Maguire
- James Rolph
- James Roosevelt
- James Van Ness
- Jay Dardenne
- Jeff Colyer
- Jeff Kessler
- Jennifer Carroll
- Jennifer Siebel
- Jerry Abramson
- Jerry Brown
- Jesse Jackson
- Jesse M. Unruh
- Jim Cawley
- Jo V. Snyder
- Joanna Newsom
- John B. Reddick
- John Barry Curtin
- John Bohlinger
- John Daggett
- John F. Chellis
- John G. Downey
- John Garamendi
- John L. Burton
- John L. Harmer
- John Mansfield
- John Morton Eshleman
- John Pérez
- John Sanchez
- John Shelley
- John W. Geary
- John Walkup
- Joseph Alioto
- Joyce L. Kennard
- Justus Wardell
- Kamala Harris
- Kathleen Brown
- Kathryn Werdegar
- Kay Ivey
- Ken Bennett
- Kenneth McClintock
- Kevin Raye
- Kevin Shelley
- Kim Guadagno
- Kim Reynolds
- Kimberly Guilfoyle
- Kwame R. Brown
- Kyoto Protocol
- Larkspur, California
- Leo T. McCarthy
- Levi Richard Ellert
- Marina District
- Mark Darr
- Marvin R. Baxter
- Matt Gonzalez
- Matt Michels
- Matthew P. Denn
- Maurice Carey Blake
- Max Maxfield
- Mead Treadwell
- Mervyn M. Dymally
- Michael Bloomberg
- Michela Alioto-Pier
- Mike Curb
- Milton M. Young
- Ming Chin
- Mona Pasquil
- MSNBC
- Nancy Pelosi
- Nancy Wyman
- Napa Valley AVA
- Nephrology
- P. H. McCarthy
- Pablo de la Guerra
- Pacific Heights
- Pat Brown
- Peter Bragdon
- Peter Kinder
- Phil Angelides
- PlumpJack Wine Shop
- PlumpJack Winery
- Political science
- Politician
- Prosecutor
- Quentin Kopp
- Ralph Nader
- Ray Tenorio
- Rebecca Kleefisch
- Rescue Muni
- Richard P. Graves
- Rick Sheehy
- Robert M. Anderson
- Robin Williams
- Roger Lapham
- Roman Catholic
- Romualdo Pacheco
- Ron Pelosi
- Ron Ramsey
- Ross Mirkarimi
- Russian Hill
- Salon.com
- Same-sex marriage
- Samepoint
- Samuel Purdy
- San Francisco
- San Francisco Pride
- Sea Cliff
- Sheila Simon
- Sheridan Downey
- Spencer G. Millard
- Stanford University
- Stephen M. White
- Stephen Palfrey Webb
- Tani Cantil-Sakauye
- Tate Reeves
- Template SFMayors
- Thomas Addis
- Thomas Henry Selby
- Thomas L. Woolwine
- Thomas O. Toland
- Tim Murray
- Tim N. Machin
- Timothy Spellacy
- Tom Torlakson
- United States
- United States Senate
- Universal healthcare
- Upton Sinclair
- Walter H. Dalton
- Warren R. Porter
- Washington Bartlett
- Wikipedia Link rot
- Wikipedia Persondata
- William Alvord
- William B. Shearer
- William Newsom
- William Stephens
- William T. Jeter
-
Bob Huff
Robert S. Huff (born September 9, 1953) is a U.S. politician, who is the California State Senate Republican Leader, having assumed the post on January 5, 2012. Since December 1, 2008, he has represented the Senate's 29th District, which includes portions of Los Angeles, Orange, and San Bernardino counties.
A resident of Diamond Bar, California, he served on its City Council from 1995 to 2004 and was Mayor in 1997 and 2001. Huff won the 2004 Assembly election to succeed the term-limited Bob Pacheco and was reelected in 2006. He won the 2008 election to succeed the term-limited Bob Margett for the 29th district in the California State Senate. In 2012, he was elected to succeed the term-limited Bob Dutton as Senate Republican Leader.
Born in Calexico, California, Huff grew up on his family's farm in the Imperial Valley. Huff attended Westmont College in Santa Barbara, where he earned a bachelor's degree in psychology, graduating with honors.
Most of his professional and business experience has been in the agricultural industry. Working through the ranks to become the youngest vice president in a grain handling corporation, he became manager-owner of the Ray S. French Company, an independent commodity wholesaler, shortly after he moved his family to Diamond Bar in 1983.
wn.com/Bob_Huff -
California
California (pronounced
i/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
wn.com/California -
Charles Calderon
Charles M. Calderon (born March 12, 1950) began his second stint in the California State Assembly in 2006. He represents the 58th District, which includes the cities of Montebello, Pico Rivera, Hacienda Heights Rowland Heights, South San Gabriel, South San Jose Hills, Valinda and portions of City of Industry, Downey, La Mirada, Whittier and East Los Angeles.
Calderon was first elected to the Assembly in 1982. In 1988-89, he became leader of a power struggle for control of the Assembly. The "Gang of Five", as they were called–Calderon, Gary Condit, Steve Peace of Chula Vista, Gerald Eaves of Rialto, and Rusty Areias of Los Banos, California–were conservative Democrats who tried to wrest power from Willie Brown, then Speaker of the Assembly. Calderon was nominated for the office of Speaker, but Brown prevailed by a vote of 40-34. Brown stripped all five of committee leadership positions and staff.
In 1990, Calderon left the Assembly, and he was elected to the California State Senate. From September 1996 until the end of his term, Calderon served as the first Hispanic Senate Majority leader in California history. He ran unsuccessfully for Attorney General in 1998, losing the primary to Bill Lockyer. Prior to his 2006 election to the Assembly, he served as California Health Care Commissioner and was a Partner with the law firm of Nossaman.
wn.com/Charles_Calderon -
Connie Conway
Connie Conway (born September 25, 1950 in Bakersfield, CA) is a Republican politician from California. She is currently in the California State Assembly and is the Assemblymember from the 34th district which takes in many parts of California's Central Valley and High Desert areas. Prior to serving in the Assembly, Conway served as a Tulare County Supervisor from 2000 until 2008. Conway currently serves on the State Board of Directors for California Women Lead, a women's nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.
Conway entered the race to succeed termed out Bill Maze. In the primary, she faced two candidates, Rebecca Maze (wife of the incumbent) and Bob Smith, a retired sheriff's deputy.
Following her successful re-election to the State Assembly on November 2, 2010, Conway was elected by her Republican colleagues as the Assembly Republican Leader after a closed-door meeting of Assembly Republicans on November 4, 2010. Conway stated that outgoing Minority Leader Martin Garrick had voluntarily stepped down and she had been elected unanimously. Conway is the first woman to serve as GOP assembly leader since 1981.
wn.com/Connie_Conway -
Darrell Steinberg
Darrell Steven Steinberg (born October 15, 1959) is a Democratic politician from Sacramento, California. He is currently serving his second term in the California State Senate, representing the 6th District. He has been the Senate President Pro Tem since 2008. Steinberg had previously served as a member of the California State Assembly (1998–2004) and as a member of the Sacramento City Council (1992–1998).
Steinberg received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall).
Steinberg worked as an Employee Rights Attorney for the California State Employees Association for 10 years and as an Administrative Law Judge and mediator.
Steinberg served on the Sacramento City Council representing the 6th District, where he founded Sacramento START (Students Today Achieving Results for Tomorrow), a free literacy-based public/private after-school program.
Darrell Steinberg was a member of the California State Assembly from 1998 until he was termed out in 2004.
wn.com/Darrell_Steinberg -
Ellen Corbett
Ellen Marie Corbett (born December 31, 1954) is a Democratic politician from San Leandro, California. She is currently serving her second term in the California State Senate. Corbett represents the 10th District, which includes San Leandro, Hayward, Pleasanton, Union City, Fremont, Newark, Milpitas and part of San Jose. She is currently the Senate Majority Leader.
Ellen Corbett was a member of the California State Assembly from 1998 until she was termed out in 2004. She has served as a city councilmember and mayor for San Leandro and worked as an attorney, community college professor and civic activist.
Corbett attended Chabot Community College and California State University, Hayward. She graduated from the University of California, Davis and McGeorge Law School.
She currently lives in San Leandro, California.
As an Assemblymember (1998–2004) and Senator (2006–present), Corbett has been criticized by the press and local Democratic activists for being absent during critical votes. In May 1999, Corbett missed a debate and vote on gun control at the State Capitol while she was in her local district. In 2003 she missed a vote on restrictions on unsolicited commercial internet emails, known as “spam”. As Senator she missed votes, including in 2008, legislation to prevent billboards from turning into the “high-voltage digital variety”, and a year later in 2009, amendments in her committee restricted local governments' ability to take action on illegal billboards throughout the state.
wn.com/Ellen_Corbett -
Kevin Raye
Kevin L. Raye (born February 7, 1961) is an American politician. Raye is a Republican member of the Maine Senate, representing the 29th district in northeastern Washington County. In December 2010, Raye became President of the Maine Senate, and as such, is next in line to the governorship of Maine.
Raye was born February 7, 1961 in Eastport, Maine. He is one of eight sons of Harry Raye, an electrician and a veteran of World War II, and Frances Morrison Raye, a teacher. He graduated from Shead Memorial High School in Eastport and earned a degree in political science from Bates College in Lewiston.
Along with his wife Karen, he owns and operates the historic Raye's Mustard Mill, which has been run by members of the Raye family since 1900. He spent seventeen years working for former U.S. Representative and current U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe. He served as her Chief of Staff for six years.
Raye represents Maine Senate District 29. District 29 includes a portion of Hancock County.
Raye won re-election to the 29th District Seat in 2010, defeating Democrat F. James Whalen ran for the seat on the Democratic ticket. On November 4, 2008, Raye won re-election by defeating Karen Johnson and Dana Kadey.
wn.com/Kevin_Raye -
Kim Reynolds
Kim Reynolds is the 47th and current Lieutenant Governor of Iowa and a former state senator from Osceola. Republican nominee for Governor Terry Branstad publicly proposed Reynolds for lieutenant governor on June 25, 2010 and she received the Republican nomination from the 2010 Republican State Convention on June 26. Reynolds was elected to represent Iowa Senate District 48 in 2008 and resigned on November 12, 2010 to work on the transition to "focus solely on assisting Gov. (Terry) Branstad’s transition team."
Prior to being elected to the Iowa Senate, she served four terms as the Clarke County Treasurer. She had also served on the Iowa Public Employees Retirement System board. She is married and has three adult children. Reynolds is a recovering alcoholic who has been convicted twice of driving under the influence of alcohol. The most recent was in 2000.
Reynolds last sat on these committees in the Iowa Senate:
wn.com/Kim_Reynolds -
PlumpJack Winery
PlumpJack Winery is a boutique winery in Oakville, California specializing in premium Cabernet Sauvignon wines. PlumpJack was the first winery in Napa Valley to use screwcaps as a wine closure on super premium wines. The winery is one of several businesses operated by the PlumpJack Group. The name of the company is inspired by "the roguish spirit of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff (Henry IV), dubbed Plump Jack by Queen Elizabeth."
The PlumpJack Group was founded in 1992 by Gavin Newsom, a San Francisco entrepreneur who was elected that city's mayor in 2003, and Gordon Getty, a San Francisco composer and philanthropist, when they opened a wine store called PlumpJack Wines in the Fillmore neighborhood of San Francisco . Over the next five years, the business expanded to include a boutique hotel and three restaurants. PlumpJack Winery was founded in 1997 when the PlumpJack Group acquired a century-old 53 acres (21 ha) vineyard in Napa Valley on Oakville Cross Road. The winery facility and tasting room were designed by Leavitt-Weaver, the same design firm that the PlumpJack Group used for the designs of its restaurants and hotels.
wn.com/PlumpJack_Winery -
San Francisco
San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.6 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of about 17,179 people per square mile (6,632 people per km2). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States after New York City. San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a population of 805,235 as of the 2010 Census. The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area has a population of 4,335,391.
In 1776, colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi a few miles away. The California Gold Rush of 1849 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, increasing the population in one year from 1,000 to 25,000, and thus transforming it into the largest city on the West Coast at the time. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.
wn.com/San_Francisco -
Stanford University
Coordinates: 37°26′N 122°10′W / 37.43°N 122.17°W / 37.43; -122.17
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is an American private research university located in Stanford, California on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus near Palo Alto, California, United States. It is situated in the northwestern Silicon Valley, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San Jose and 37 miles (60 km) southeast of San Francisco.
Leland Stanford, a Californian railroad tycoon and politician, and his wife Jane Lathrop Stanford founded the university in 1891 in honor of their son, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died of typhoid two months before his 16th birthday. The university was established as a coeducational and nondenominational institution, but struggled financially after the senior Stanford's 1893 death and after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would become known as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a linear accelerator, was one of the original four ARPANET nodes, and had transformed itself into a major research university in computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, and social sciences.
wn.com/Stanford_University -
United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
wn.com/United_States
-
Abel Maldonado
Abel Maldonado (born August 21, 1967) is an American politician who was the 48th Lieutenant Governor of California. On November 23, 2009, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Maldonado as his nominee for Lieutenant Governor to fill the vacancy created by John Garamendi's election to the United States House of Representatives. A State Senator from 2004 until his appointment as Lieutenant Governor, Maldonado ran unsuccessfully for California State Controller in 2006. Maldonado was the first Republican in the State Senate to vote for the budget during the budget deadlock in 2007. He represented a swing district in the Senate and is considered a moderate. Prior to serving in the State Senate, Maldonado was a member of the California State Assembly and Mayor and City Councilmember of Santa Maria. Maldonaldo was defeated in the 2010 lieutenant governor election by Democrat Gavin Newsom of San Francisco.
Maldonado is the eldest son of immigrant Mexican-American farm workers. His family eventually acquired a small family farm, where they grew strawberries. After Maldonado graduated from Santa Maria High School, his family used their earnings from the farm to send him to California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, where he majored in Crop Science. Maldonado brought his college experience back to his family's farm and helped his family grow the half-acre strawberry farm into a 6,000-acre (24 km²) farm, employing 250 people, with produce shipped around the world.
wn.com/Abel_Maldonado -
Adolph Sutro
Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro (April 29, 1830 – August 8, 1898) was the 24th mayor of San Francisco, and first Jewish mayor, serving in that office from 1894 until 1896. He is today perhaps best remembered for the various San Francisco lands and landmarks that still bear his name.
Born in Aachen, Rhine Province, Prussia (today North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), Sutro, educated as an engineer, at the age of twenty arrived in the United States and in 1850, he introduced himself to William Ralston of the Bank of California and introduced his plans for de-watering and de-gassing the mine shafts of the Comstock Lode by driving a tunnel through Mount Davidson to drain the water. Sutro incorporated the Sutro Tunnel company and raised US$3 million, a considerable fortune through this work in Nevada. He included the miners in his scheme, and planned to sail to Europe to negotiate with the Parisian Bank, but the Franco-Prussian War commenced in the middle of July 1870. Sutro was stymied, but out of the blue came an offer from a London bank led by a banker named McClamont, who offered $650,000 in gold per year for the Comstock.
wn.com/Adolph_Sutro -
Al Alquist
Alfred E. Alquist (August 2, 1908 – March 27, 2006) was a California politician.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of a Swedish immigrant who worked for the railroads, he was barely a teenager when he started carrying water to railroad work crews. He became a timekeeper, switchman, brakeman and conductor, before serving with the Army Air Forces during World War II. He was a yardmaster for the Southern Pacific Railroad when he and his first wife moved to San Jose, California in 1947.
Alquist was elected to the California State Assembly in 1962, and four years later, the State Senate, where he served for 30 years. A forceful and savvy state legislator, he chaired the powerful Senate Finance Committee for 15 years. He also routinely chaired the two-house conference committee that wrote the final version of the state budget before it went to the Assembly and Senate floors.
He was perhaps best known for his co-authorship of the landmark 1974 law, a national model, which created the California Energy Commission. In the legislature, Alquist also helped to establish the Santa Clara County transit system, the state's earthquake safety programs OSHPD and Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act, HSSA, and the state Energy Commission. A pragmatic New Deal Democrat, he earned a reputation for helping the poor and representing the interests of labor. When term limits forced him to retire in 1996, he was the Legislature's ranking member.
wn.com/Al_Alquist -
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) served as the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993–2001), under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President and won the popular vote in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.
Gore is currently an author and environmental activist. He has founded a number of non-profit organizations, including the Alliance for Climate Protection, and has received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in climate change activism.
Gore was previously an elected official for 24 years, representing Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives (1977–85), and later in the U.S. Senate (1985–93), and finally becoming Vice President in 1993. In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote by a margin of more than 500,000 votes. However, he ultimately lost the Electoral College to Republican George W. Bush when the U.S. Supreme Court settled the legal controversy over the Florida vote recount by ruling 5-4 in favor of Bush. It was the only time in history that the Supreme Court has determined the outcome of a presidential election.
wn.com/Al_Gore -
Alden Anderson
Alden Anderson (October 11, 1867 – September 23, 1944) was a Republican politician from California. He served as the 23rd Lieutenant Governor from 1903 to 1907. Prior to that he had been a member of the California State Assembly representing Solano County, and served as Speaker from January 1899 to February 1900.
wn.com/Alden_Anderson -
Angelo Joseph Rossi
Angelo Joseph Rossi (January 22, 1878 – April 5, 1948) was a U.S. political figure who served as the 31st mayor of San Francisco. He was the first mayor of 100% Italian descent of a major U.S city (top 10 most populous U.S. cities between 1776 and 1931).
Rossi was born in Volcano, Amador County, California, and came to San Francisco in 1890 with his widowed mother and six siblings after the family home and general store burned to the ground in minutes. (His father, also named Angelo, left Italy in 1849 at the age of 16 aboard a ship loaded with marble that departed from Genoa. When he arrived in Amador County, he mined for gold and opened his general store.) When Angelo arrived in San Francisco with his family in 1890, he attended school but left after 6th grade to work in jobs that ranged from cash boy to a clerk in a couple of different florist shops, including Carbone and Sons and Pelicano and Sons, which became Pelicano and Rossi when he became a partner in the early 1900s. Eventually he opened his own company, Angelo J. Rossi, Inc., and during his tenure in office the florist company continued to operate in a sparkling Art Deco-motif building Angelo owned at 45 Grant Avenue.
wn.com/Angelo_Joseph_Rossi -
Art Agnos
Arthur (Art) Christ Agnos (born September 1, 1938) is an American politician. He served as the 39th mayor of San Francisco, California from 1988 to 1992, and the Regional Head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1993–2001.
Agnos was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bates College and a Master of Social Work from Florida State University. He moved to San Francisco in 1966 and went to work at the San Francisco Housing Authority as a social worker with senior populations. At that time, San Francisco’s senior housing was being built as high-rises that many believed left seniors disconnected from the community. Agnos learned through his involvement in challenging this policy that political decisions can shape the environment for poor and vulnerable people.
On December 13, 1973, Agnos, who was then a member of the California Commission on Aging, was attending a meeting in the largely black public housing project on Potrero Hill in San Francisco to discuss building a government-funded health clinic in the area. After the meeting broke up, he was shot twice at point blank range by a black man; Agnos became one of two victims shot that day in a series of killings called the Zebra murders. It was perhaps the first cases of urban terrorism in the United States, with random shootings in San Francisco resulting in 16 murders and eight to ten wounded in waves of attacks in 1973 and 1974 by a more militant offshoot of the Nation of Islam in which points were earned by killing a white person. Agnos was one of the few who survived that day; the other victim, Marietta DiGirolamo, died.
wn.com/Art_Agnos -
Arthur Torres
Art Torres (born 1946) is a United States Democratic Party state senator. He is the Vice Chair of the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee, the governing Board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). CIRM, established in 2005 following the passage of Proposition 71, is charged with allocating US$3 billion to California universities and research institutions to support and advance stem cell research. He is a colon cancer survivor and serves on the Board as a patient advocate.
Torres served as the Chairman of the California Democratic Party from 1995 to 2009. He was the first Latino in the California Democratic Party to have been nominated for statewide office when he won the Democratic primary for insurance commissioner in 1994. He is openly gay. He is the father of a son and daughter.
Torres graduated from Montebello High School in 1964 where he was the ASB President his senior year; he was a classmate of actor Edward James Olmos. He holds a Bachelor's degree from UC Santa Cruz and a Juris Doctor from University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall). He also served as a John F. Kennedy teaching fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
wn.com/Arthur_Torres -
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is the junior United States Senator from California (since 1993). A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–1993).
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Boxer graduated from Brooklyn College. She worked as a stockbroker for several years before moving to California with her husband. During the 1970s, she worked as a journalist for the Pacific Sun and as an aide to U.S. Representative John L. Burton. She served on the Marin County Board of Supervisors for six years and become the board's first female president. With the slogan "Barbara Boxer Gives a Damn", she was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1982, representing California District 6. She sat on the House Armed Services Committee, and was involved in government oversight, passing several procurement reforms.
Boxer won the 1992 election for the U.S. Senate. She holds the record for the most popular votes in any U.S. Senate election in history, having received 6.96 million votes in her 2004 re-election. Boxer is the chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee and the chair of the Select Committee on Ethics, making her the only senator to preside over two committees simultaneously. She is also the Democratic Chief Deputy Whip.
wn.com/Barbara_Boxer -
Becky Skillman
Rebecca S. "Becky" Skillman (born September 26, 1950 in Bedford, Indiana) is the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of the State of Indiana. She is a member of the Republican Party. She was sworn in on January 10, 2005.
Skillman is a native of Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana. An alumna of Indiana Wesleyan University, she began her career in politics in 1977 when she was elected to the office of Lawrence County Recorder. Eight years later she was elected as County Clerk.
In 1992 Skillman was elected to the Indiana State Senate, where she represented Lawrence, Monroe, Jackson, Washington, and Orange Counties. Rising quickly through the leadership, she became Majority Caucus Chair, the first woman in history to serve in the Senate Republican leadership.
Mitch Daniels selected Skillman to be his running mate during the 2004 election. The ticket was elected over incumbent Governor Joe Kernan and incumbent Lieutenant Governor Kathy Davis and she took office in January.
Now, serving as Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, Becky Skillman is responsible for shepherding Governor Mitch Daniels's Administration's legislative agenda through the Indiana General Assembly and serves as President of the Senate.
wn.com/Becky_Skillman -
Bill Bolling
William T. "Bill" Bolling (born June 15, 1957) is the 39th and current Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. Running as a Republican, he was elected twice to the position by defeating his Democratic opponent in both the 2005 and 2009 general elections. He is the first Lieutenant Governor in the Commonwealth of Virginia to serve two consecutive terms since Don Beyer. In addition, he currently serves in Governor Bob McDonnell's cabinet as the Chief Jobs Creation Officer.
Bolling was born in Sistersville, West Virginia in 1957. He was raised in the coal fields of southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia. He graduated from the University of Charleston (West Virginia) in 1978 with a B.S. degree in Political Science and was the first member of his family to graduate from college.
Bolling first ran for elected office in 1991 for a position on the Hanover County Board of Supervisors. Bolling won that office and served as a member of the Board until 1995. While a member, Bolling also served as the Chairman of the Board of supervisors.
wn.com/Bill_Bolling -
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation. Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance.
Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton became both a student leader and a skilled musician. He is an alumnus of Georgetown University where he was Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. Both Clintons received law degrees from Yale Law School, where they met and began dating. As Governor of Arkansas, Clinton overhauled the state's education system, and served as Chair of the National Governors Association.
wn.com/Bill_Clinton -
Bill Lockyer
William Westwood "Bill" Lockyer (born May 8, 1941) is an American politician. He is the now the 32nd State Treasurer of California, elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2010. He has also served as California Attorney General and President Pro Tempore of the California State Senate. Lockyer, who has held elective office since 1973, is not able to run for a third term as Treasurer in 2014, due to term limits in California.
Described by journalistic observers as one of California's most "colorful" politicians, Lockyer has long been known to speak with a frankness that has occasionally caused political embarrassment.
Lockyer attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a BA in Political Science in 1965. While in school, Lockyer founded the Cal Berkeley Democrats.[citation needed] His first job was a public school history teacher.
Lockyer began his political career as a School Board member of the San Leandro Unified School District, as chair of the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee, and California coordinator of Senator George McGovern's 1972 campaign for the Presidency.
wn.com/Bill_Lockyer -
Bill Press
William "Bill" Press (born 1940) is a US talk radio host, political commentator and author. He was chair of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996.
Press has a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Niagara University and Bachelor of Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg. He started his broadcasting career in Los Angeles for TV stations KABC-TV and KCOP-TV. He has worked as a political commentator for CNN and MSNBC. He is best known for co-hosting CNN's Spin Room opposite Tucker Carlson, and Crossfire and MSNBC's Buchanan and Press.
Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. Press also contributes blogs to the online version of Washington, D.C.'s nonpartisan newspaper, The Hill. In January 2012, Press filled in for Keith Olbermann on Current TV's coverage of the Florida GOP primary elections.
Press was the chair of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996. He has previously served in different appointed positions such as a chief of staff to Republican California State Senator Peter Behr from 1971 to 1973, and as director of the California Office of Planning and Research under Democratic Governor Jerry Brown from 1975 to 1979.
wn.com/Bill_Press -
Bob Huff
Robert S. Huff (born September 9, 1953) is a U.S. politician, who is the California State Senate Republican Leader, having assumed the post on January 5, 2012. Since December 1, 2008, he has represented the Senate's 29th District, which includes portions of Los Angeles, Orange, and San Bernardino counties.
A resident of Diamond Bar, California, he served on its City Council from 1995 to 2004 and was Mayor in 1997 and 2001. Huff won the 2004 Assembly election to succeed the term-limited Bob Pacheco and was reelected in 2006. He won the 2008 election to succeed the term-limited Bob Margett for the 29th district in the California State Senate. In 2012, he was elected to succeed the term-limited Bob Dutton as Senate Republican Leader.
Born in Calexico, California, Huff grew up on his family's farm in the Imperial Valley. Huff attended Westmont College in Santa Barbara, where he earned a bachelor's degree in psychology, graduating with honors.
Most of his professional and business experience has been in the agricultural industry. Working through the ranks to become the youngest vice president in a grain handling corporation, he became manager-owner of the Ray S. French Company, an independent commodity wholesaler, shortly after he moved his family to Diamond Bar in 1983.
wn.com/Bob_Huff -
Brad Owen
Bradley Owen (born May 23, 1950) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party and currently serves as the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Washington. In the United States, Owen is the longest currently serving Lieutenant Governor. In the event of the governor leaving office, Owen would assume the position of governor until a special election could be held.
Owen was a small business owner before entering politics. He was elected as Shelton City Finance Commissioner and to the Washington House of Representatives in 1976, and served in those capacities until 1983, when he was elected to the Washington State Senate. In 1989, he formed a non-profit organization called Strategies for Youth to fight substance abuse among Washington's young people. In 1996, Owen moved from the legislature to the executive branch with his election as lieutenant governor. He was re-elected to that position in 2000, 2004 and 2008. His current term expires in January 2013.
On April 2, 2008, the King of Spain bestowed the Order of Isabella the Catholic, or Spanish knighthood, on Owen.
wn.com/Brad_Owen -
Brian Calley
Brian Calley (born March 25, 1977), an American politician from the Republican Party is the 61st and current Lieutenant Governor of the State of Michigan. He is afforded the courtesy title of the Honorable (abbreviated to Hon. or Hon'ble) for life.
During his youth, Calley volunteered for the local Republican Party and later joined its executive committee after graduation from Ionia High School in 1995. Calley attended Michigan State University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1998. He then earned a MBA from Grand Valley State University in 2000, pursuing a career in banking. He and his wife Julie Calley have three children.
After graduation, Calley worked throughout the banking industry, spending time at Ionia County National Bank (currently Firstbank), and most recently serving as vice president of Irwin Union Bank of Lansing.
In 2002, Calley was elected to the Ionia County Board of Commissioners, where he served until his election to the lower house of the state's Legislature in 2006. During his tenure as a member of the Board of Commissioners, he served on the Mid-South Substance Abuse Council, Ionia County Economic Alliance Board of Directors, Local Emergency Planning Committee and Ionia County Personnel Finance Committee.
wn.com/Brian_Calley -
Brian Krolicki
Brian K. Krolicki (born December 31, 1960) is an American politician. He is the 33rd and current Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, elected in 2006. As the Lieutenant Governor, he presides over the Nevada State Senate, chairs the Commission on Tourism, and serves on the State Board of Transportation and the Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition. Previously he served two terms as the Nevada State Treasurer. He is a member of the Republican Party. Krolicki is unable to run for a third term in 2014 due to term limits.
Krolicki is a graduate of Stanford University, where he graduated in 1983 with a degree in Political Science.
Preceding his election as State Treasurer, Krolicki worked for Bankers Trust in New York City, and Smith Barney in San Francisco and Manama, Bahrain.
Krolicki was elected State Treasurer in 1998. During his tenure, Krolicki worked to make college education more affordable, and considered it "a cornerstone of his administration." He created the State Treasurer's College Savings Plan and Nevada's Prepaid College Tuition Program, and oversaw the set-up of the Gates Scholarship in Nevada.
wn.com/Brian_Krolicki -
Brian Schatz
Brian Emanuel Schatz (born October 20, 1972) is an American politician who is the 11th and current Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii. He served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1998 to 2006, where he represented the 25th legislative district, and was Chairman of the Democratic Party of Hawaii from 2008 to 2010.
Schatz was elected Lieutenant Governor in the 2010 Hawaii gubernatorial election as the running mate of Neil Abercrombie, following work as Chief Executive Officer of Helping Hands Hawaii, an Oahu nonprofit social service agency.
Brian Schatz grew up in Hawaii, attending Punahou School there followed by a B.A. in Philosophy from Pomona College in Claremont, California. While at Pomona, Schatz also spent a term studying in Kenya as part of the International Training Program, where Schatz developed skills as a public servant.
After returning to Hawaii, Schatz taught at Punahou School before moving into the non-profit sector.
Brian Schatz is married to Linda Kwok Kai Yun Schatz and has a son Tyler and a daughter Mia.
wn.com/Brian_Schatz -
Buron Fitts
Buron Rogers Fitts (March 22, 1895 - March 29, 1973) was a California politician, who was the 29th Lieutenant Governor of the state from 1927 to 1928 and Los Angeles County district attorney thereafter until 1940.
Born in Belcherville, Texas, Fitts received his law degree in 1916 from the University of Southern California, and while a student there worked as a clerk for the prominent attorney Earl Rogers.
According to For the People — Inside the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office 1850-2000, by Michael Parrish, Fitts was a severely injured veteran of World War I whose base of political support lay in the American Legion organization of war veterans. He had been shot in the knee in the Battle of Argonne and limped for the rest of his life.
He was appointed deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County in 1920 during the term of Thomas Lee Woolwine and chief deputy in 1924 under Asa Keyes. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1926 and served in the administration of Governor C.C. Young. Fitts term as lieutenant governor of California: January 4, 1927 to November 30, 1928. Governor Young appointed H. L. Carnahan, lieutenant governor on December 4, 1928, vice Buron Fitts, resigned.
wn.com/Buron_Fitts -
Carol Corrigan
Carol Ann Corrigan (born August 16, 1948) is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court.
Corrigan, the daughter of a newspaperman, grew up in the San Joaquin Valley city of Stockton, California. She graduated from Saint Mary's High School in Stockton, and attended the then women-only Catholic Holy Names College in Oakland. After a brief stint in a graduate program in psychology, Corrigan enrolled at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she served as Notes and Comments Editor of the Hastings Law Journal. She received her Juris Doctor degree in 1975 and was admitted to the California bar the same year.
Corrigan worked as a prosecutor in Alameda County, California from 1975, and as a senior prosecutor from 1985 until 1987 when she was appointed to the county's Municipal Court. In 1991 she became a Judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County, the state's principal trial court there. In 1994 the Governor Pete Wilson appointed her as a Justice in the California Court of Appeal, First District. There, she gained a reputation for legal acumen, serving on a commission that overhauled the state's court rules.
wn.com/Carol_Corrigan -
Casey Cagle
Lowell S. "Casey" Cagle (born January 12, 1966) is an American politician currently serving as the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. He is a member of the Republican Party, a conservative, and a former member of the General Assembly in the U.S. state of Georgia. In 2006, Cagle defeated political activist Ralph Reed in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. He later defeated Democrat Jim Martin November 7, 2006, to become the first Republican Lieutenant Governor in Georgia's history.
Cagle was born Lowell S. Casey Cagle in Gainesville, Georgia and raised by his single mother. He is a seventh generation resident of Hall County, Georgia. According to his legislative biography, he "attended eight different elementary schools by age six, but persevered to graduate from Hall County's public schools." After graduating from Johnson High School, Cagle attended Gainesville State College and Georgia Southern University to play football. After an injury ended his dreams of playing college football, Cagle entered the business world, starting his first venture, a small tuxedo shop in Gainesville, when he was just 20 years old.
wn.com/Casey_Cagle -
Charles Boxton
Charles Boxton (April 24, 1860 Shasta County, California – August 29, 1927 San Mateo, California) served as the 27th mayor of San Francisco from July 9 to July 16, 1907.
He attended the San Francisco public schools and then entered a dental apprenticeship. Afterwards he entered the University of California, where he earned a D.D.S. degree, and then entered private practice in San Francisco.
He soon left his dental practice to fight in the Philippine–American War. After returning home, he entered politics and was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1899. He also became dean of the Dental Department at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
After the corruption trial of mayor Eugene Schmitz, the Board of Supervisors chose him to serve out Schmitz's remaining term. However, during the trial, it was revealed that Boxton had taken bribes and he was forced to resign after only a week in office. He then resumed his dentistry practice.
wn.com/Charles_Boxton -
Charles Calderon
Charles M. Calderon (born March 12, 1950) began his second stint in the California State Assembly in 2006. He represents the 58th District, which includes the cities of Montebello, Pico Rivera, Hacienda Heights Rowland Heights, South San Gabriel, South San Jose Hills, Valinda and portions of City of Industry, Downey, La Mirada, Whittier and East Los Angeles.
Calderon was first elected to the Assembly in 1982. In 1988-89, he became leader of a power struggle for control of the Assembly. The "Gang of Five", as they were called–Calderon, Gary Condit, Steve Peace of Chula Vista, Gerald Eaves of Rialto, and Rusty Areias of Los Banos, California–were conservative Democrats who tried to wrest power from Willie Brown, then Speaker of the Assembly. Calderon was nominated for the office of Speaker, but Brown prevailed by a vote of 40-34. Brown stripped all five of committee leadership positions and staff.
In 1990, Calderon left the Assembly, and he was elected to the California State Senate. From September 1996 until the end of his term, Calderon served as the first Hispanic Senate Majority leader in California history. He ran unsuccessfully for Attorney General in 1998, losing the primary to Bill Lockyer. Prior to his 2006 election to the Assembly, he served as California Health Care Commissioner and was a Partner with the law firm of Nossaman.
wn.com/Charles_Calderon -
Chris Daly
Chris Daly (born August 13, 1972) is a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He represented District 6, on which he served from 2000 to 2010. His decade-long career terminated in 2011.
Daly grew up in Bowie, Maryland and Gaithersburg, Maryland; his father was a federal employee and consultant, and his mother an accountant.
Daly was valedictorian of his high school class and was drawn to service as a teenager through the 4-H club. He attended Duke University but did not graduate. He moved to San Francisco in 1993, where he became involved in local politics through an advocacy group for the homeless called Mission Agenda.
Daly was first elected to office in 2000 in a near sweep for progressive candidates in supervisorial races. He ran on his credentials as a housing advocate in the Mission District. Like other progressives, he rode a backlash against the patronage politics of then-Mayor Willie Brown. Daly was re-elected in 2002 and 2006. In the three contested elections, Daly received 8,472, 6,642, and 8,968 votes respectively.
wn.com/Chris_Daly -
Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell (
/ˈkoʊlɨn/; born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African American to serve in that position. During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor (1987–1989), as Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command (1989) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993), holding the latter position during the Gulf War. He was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Colin Luther Powell was born on April 5, 1937 in Harlem, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, to Jamaican immigrant parents Maud Arial (née McKoy) and Luther Theophilus Powell. He also has Scottish ancestry. Powell was raised in the South Bronx and attended Morris High School, a former public school in the Bronx, from which he graduated in 1954. While at school, he worked at a local baby furniture store where he picked up Yiddish from the shopkeepers and some of the customers. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in geology from the City College of New York in 1958 and was a self-admitted C average student. He was later able to earn a Master of Business Administration degree from the George Washington University in 1971, after his second tour in Vietnam.
wn.com/Colin_Powell -
Connie Conway
Connie Conway (born September 25, 1950 in Bakersfield, CA) is a Republican politician from California. She is currently in the California State Assembly and is the Assemblymember from the 34th district which takes in many parts of California's Central Valley and High Desert areas. Prior to serving in the Assembly, Conway served as a Tulare County Supervisor from 2000 until 2008. Conway currently serves on the State Board of Directors for California Women Lead, a women's nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.
Conway entered the race to succeed termed out Bill Maze. In the primary, she faced two candidates, Rebecca Maze (wife of the incumbent) and Bob Smith, a retired sheriff's deputy.
Following her successful re-election to the State Assembly on November 2, 2010, Conway was elected by her Republican colleagues as the Assembly Republican Leader after a closed-door meeting of Assembly Republicans on November 4, 2010. Conway stated that outgoing Minority Leader Martin Garrick had voluntarily stepped down and she had been elected unanimously. Conway is the first woman to serve as GOP assembly leader since 1981.
wn.com/Connie_Conway -
Cruz Bustamante
Cruz Miguel Bustamante (born January 4, 1953) is an American politician. He was the 45th Lieutenant Governor of California, a former Speaker of the State Assembly and a member of the Democratic Party. He served with Governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger and was succeeded by John Garamendi on January 8, 2007.
The eldest of six children, Cruz Bustamante was born in Dinuba, California. His family later moved to San Joaquin, California. He attended and graduated from Tranquillity High School in the 1970s, where he excelled in both football and wrestling, and later attended Fresno City College and California State University, Fresno.
With his wife Arcelia, Bustamante has three daughters. Nao Bustamante, Cruz's youngest sister, is an internationally known contemporary performance artist.
As a resident of Fresno, Bustamante was elected to the California State Assembly in a special election in 1993, and became the Speaker of the Assembly in 1996. He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1998, the first Latino elected to statewide office in California in more than 120 years. He was also the highest-ranking elected Latino officeholder in the United States until Bill Richardson became Governor of New Mexico in 2003. Bustamante earned his B.A. via distance learning from the California State University, Fresno in 2003.
wn.com/Cruz_Bustamante -
Culbert Olson
Culbert Levy Olson (November 7, 1876 – April 13, 1962) was an American lawyer and politician. A Democratic Party member, Olson was involved in Utah and California politics and was elected as the 29th governor of California from 1939 to 1943.
Olson was born in Fillmore, Utah, the son of Delilah Cornelia (née King) and George Daniel Olson, on November 7, 1876. Olson's mother was a suffragette and became the first female elected official in Utah. Both his mother and father belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, Culbert was unconvinced of the existence of God, becoming an atheist at the age of ten. Olson's change of beliefs distanced himself from his parents' Mormon beliefs. He was also the first cousin of U.S. Senator William H. King.
Leaving school at the age of 14, Olson worked briefly as a telegraph operator and in 1890, enrolled at Brigham Young University in Provo, studying law and journalism. Upon graduating at the age of 19 in 1895, Olson embarked on a career as a journalist with the Daily Ogden Standard. During the 1896 Presidential Election, Olson openly campaigned for Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan. After the election, Olson moved briefly to Michigan, studying law at the University of Michigan, and then later to Washington, D.C., working as a newspaper correspondent and secretary for the U.S. Congress. During his time in the capital, Olson attended law school at George Washington University, being admitted to the Utah Bar in 1901.
wn.com/Culbert_Olson -
Danielle Steel
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947), better known as Danielle Steel, is an American romantic novelist and author of mainstream dramas.
Best known for drama and romance novels, Steel has sold more than 800 million copies of her books (as of 2005) worldwide and is the fourth best selling writer of all time, and is currently the bestselling author alive. Her novels have been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 390 consecutive weeks and 22 have been adapted for television.
Steel was born in New York City, the only child of Norma da Câmara Stone dos Reis and John Schulein-Steel. Her father was a German Jewish immigrant, a descendant of the founders of Löwenbräu beer. Her mother, born in Portugal, was the daughter of a diplomat. Steel was raised Catholic and had wanted to be a nun during her early years. She spent much of her childhood in France, where from an early age she was included in her parents' dinner parties, giving her an opportunity to observe the habits and lives of the wealthy and famous. Her parents divorced when she was eight, however, and she was raised primarily in New York City and Europe by her father, rarely seeing her mother.
wn.com/Danielle_Steel -
Darrell Steinberg
Darrell Steven Steinberg (born October 15, 1959) is a Democratic politician from Sacramento, California. He is currently serving his second term in the California State Senate, representing the 6th District. He has been the Senate President Pro Tem since 2008. Steinberg had previously served as a member of the California State Assembly (1998–2004) and as a member of the Sacramento City Council (1992–1998).
Steinberg received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall).
Steinberg worked as an Employee Rights Attorney for the California State Employees Association for 10 years and as an Administrative Law Judge and mediator.
Steinberg served on the Sacramento City Council representing the 6th District, where he founded Sacramento START (Students Today Achieving Results for Tomorrow), a free literacy-based public/private after-school program.
Darrell Steinberg was a member of the California State Assembly from 1998 until he was termed out in 2004.
wn.com/Darrell_Steinberg -
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst (born August 18, 1945) is the 41st and current Lieutenant Governor of Texas, serving under Governor Rick Perry since January 21, 2003. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as Texas Land Commissioner from 1999 to 2003. Dewhurst announced on July 18, 2011, that he was running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Republican U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in the upcoming 2012 election.
Dewhurst is a businessman, a rancher, and a community leader in Houston, where he has served on civic and charitable boards. He graduated from Lamar High School in Houston and earned his bachelor's degree and played basketball at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he was a brother of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
He was previously an officer in the U.S. Air Force, an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, and worked in the United States State Department. In 1981, Dewhurst and Mr. Ted Law re-established Falcon Seaboard, a Texas-based diversified energy and investments company in Houston that Mr. Law had founded in 1935. He breeds registered Black Angus cattle and rides cutting horses in American Quarter Horse Association and National Cutting Horse Association competitions.
wn.com/David_Dewhurst -
Debra Bowen
Debra Lynn Bowen (born October 27, 1955), a member of the Democratic Party, has been Secretary of State of California since January 8, 2007. Before that she was a member of the California State Legislature from 1992 to 2006. In March 2008, she was given the Profile in Courage Award by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Bowen is unable to run for a third term in 2014 due to term limits.
Bowen was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, where she graduated from Guilford High School in 1973. She received her bachelor's degree in 1976 from Michigan State University, and her Juris Doctor in 1979 from the University of Virginia School of Law. In 1984, she started her own California law firm.
Bowen began her career in politics on the Neighborhood Watch and Heal the Bay. Her first elected office was to the California State Assembly, where she represented the 53rd Assembly District in the South Bay area from 1992 to 1998. Bowen was first elected to the California State Senate, representing the 28th State Senate District, in 1998. Her district included all or portions of the cities of Carson, El Segundo, Hermosa Beach, Lomita, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Torrance, Venice, and Wilmington. Bowen chaired the California Senate's Committee on Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments. She also sat on the Energy, Utilities & Communications and Rules committees. Due to term limits, her service in the Senate ended in December 2006.
wn.com/Debra_Bowen -
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein ( /ˈfaɪnstaɪn/; born June 22, 1933) is the senior United States Senator from California. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served in the Senate since 1992. She also served as 38th Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.
Born in San Francisco, Feinstein graduated from Stanford University. In the 1960s she worked in city government, and in 1970 she was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She served as the board's first female president in 1978, during which time the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk drew national attention to the city. Feinstein, who was the first to discover the shootings, succeeded Moscone as mayor. During her tenure as San Francisco's first female mayor she took a politically moderate stance, leading a revamp of the city's cable car system and overseeing the 1984 Democratic National Convention.
After a failed gubernatorial campaign in 1990, she won a 1992 special election to the U.S. Senate. Feinstein was first elected on the same ballot as her peer Barbara Boxer, and the two became California's first female U.S. Senators. Feinstein formerly chaired the Senate Rules Committee (2007–2009) and has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. She is also the first woman to have presided over a U.S. presidential inauguration.
wn.com/Dianne_Feinstein -
Drew Wrigley
Drew Wrigley is the 37th and current Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota. He was appointed by Governor Jack Dalrymple on December 7, 2010. Wrigley previously served as U.S. District Attorney for North Dakota (2001–2009), as Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor John Hoeven (2000), and as Chairman of the North Dakota Republican Party.
A native of Bismarck, North Dakota, Wrigley grew up in Fargo, North Dakota, where he graduated from Fargo South High School; he is a fourth-generation North Dakotan, with roots in Burke County and Walsh County. He is a graduate of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, ND, where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Economics. He completed his Juris Doctorate at American University in Washington, DC. After law school, he served as an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia, PA before returning to North Dakota.
In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Wrigley to be the United States District Attorney for North Dakota. In this capacity, he was responsible for prosecuting all federal crimes committed in the state. His most famous case was the Dru Sjodin kidnapping and murder. Wrigley successfully prosecuted Alfonso Rodriguez, a repeat sex offender from Crookston, Minnesota, for the kidnap, rape, and murder of Sjodin (he was sentenced to death on Sept. 22nd, 2006).
wn.com/Drew_Wrigley -
Edwin Reinecke
Edwin Reinecke, who went by Ed Reinecke, (born January 7, 1924) is a retired California politician. He was born in Medford, Oregon, and served in the Navy during World War II. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1942 and then attended the California Institute of Technology, where he completed a degree in mechanical engineering. Together with his sister (Charlotte) and two brothers (Fred and Bill), he founded FEBCO, a manufacturing company, in southern California. He served in the House of Representatives between 1965 and 1969. As a member of the Interior committee, he worked to preserve Western rivers (including the Colorado River, which was to be dammed within the Grand Canyon).
He subsequently served as the 39th Lieutenant Governor of California, from January 8, 1969, to October 2, 1974. Reinecke ran for Governor of California in 1974 but failed to win the Republican Party nomination. He lost to the more liberal GOP candidate, Houston I. Flournoy, who was then defeated by the Democrat, Jerry Brown.
wn.com/Edwin_Reinecke -
Ellen Corbett
Ellen Marie Corbett (born December 31, 1954) is a Democratic politician from San Leandro, California. She is currently serving her second term in the California State Senate. Corbett represents the 10th District, which includes San Leandro, Hayward, Pleasanton, Union City, Fremont, Newark, Milpitas and part of San Jose. She is currently the Senate Majority Leader.
Ellen Corbett was a member of the California State Assembly from 1998 until she was termed out in 2004. She has served as a city councilmember and mayor for San Leandro and worked as an attorney, community college professor and civic activist.
Corbett attended Chabot Community College and California State University, Hayward. She graduated from the University of California, Davis and McGeorge Law School.
She currently lives in San Leandro, California.
As an Assemblymember (1998–2004) and Senator (2006–present), Corbett has been criticized by the press and local Democratic activists for being absent during critical votes. In May 1999, Corbett missed a debate and vote on gun control at the State Capitol while she was in her local district. In 2003 she missed a vote on restrictions on unsolicited commercial internet emails, known as “spam”. As Senator she missed votes, including in 2008, legislation to prevent billboards from turning into the “high-voltage digital variety”, and a year later in 2009, amendments in her committee restricted local governments' ability to take action on illegal billboards throughout the state.
wn.com/Ellen_Corbett -
Elmer Robinson
Elmer Edwin Robinson (October 3, 1894 – June 9, 1982) was the 33rd mayor of San Francisco, California. A Republican, he served as San Francisco's mayor from January 1948 until January 1956.
Robinson was born in the Richmond District of San Francisco, but primarily grew up in the northern California town of Fort Bragg. He moved back to San Francisco to attend night law school, after which he was admitted to the bar in 1915. He served as a deputy district attorney of San Francisco County, 1915 to 1921. He worked for 15 years, as a civil and criminal attorney in private practice.
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Robinson to direct adjustment of claims of World War I veterans, at the request of the Disabled American Veterans.
In January 1935, he became a Municipal Court judge, nine months later a Superior Court judge. Elected to two six year terms on the San Francisco County Superior bench, 1936 and 1942.
During World War II, Judge Robinson served as California State Chairman of a national salvage committee.
wn.com/Elmer_Robinson -
Eloy Inos
Eloy Songao Inos (born September 26, 1949?) is a politician in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Inos, a member of the Covenant Party, currently serves as Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands. He was nominated by Governor Benigno Fitial to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lt. Governor Timothy Villagomez. Villagomez was convicted on federal fraud charges.
Inos was confirmed by the Senate and was sworn into office on May 1, 2009. He was elected to a full term as Lt. Governor in November 2009.
Eloy Inos attended Mount Carmel High School on Saipan, graduating in May 1967. Inos obtained a bachelor's degree in accounting (Cum Laude) from the University of Guam in May 1981. He also studied business administration while at the University of Guam.
Inos has five children. He was the brother-in-law of the late Education Commissioner Rita Inos.
Inos worked as a tax manager for the now defunct Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands's revenue division. Inos was also a former Vice President of the Tan Holdings Corporation, one of the largest garment manufacturers in the Northern Mariana Islands.
wn.com/Eloy_Inos -
Ephraim Willard Burr
Ephraim Willard Burr (1809–1894) was a businessman who served as the ninth mayor of San Francisco, California from 1856 to 1859.
Burr was born on March 7, 1809 in Rhode Island. As a young man, he worked for a whaling company which sent him west. After losing his crew while docked in San Francisco—many sailors were lured away by the prospect of finding gold during the Gold Rush—Burr stayed put and opened a grocery store. His family moved to California to be with him. The venture proved so successful that he opened California's first savings union, the San Francisco Accumulating Fund Association.
He entered politics in 1855 when he petitioned the common council to curb open-stream pollution caused by local slaugherhouses. Burr stated that the pollution caused cholera to enter the streams, causing three deaths—including that of his son.
Burr was soon noticed by the Vigilante movement, who recommended him as the People's Party candidate for mayor. He was elected mayor on November 4, 1856 and took office on November 15 of that year. Burr entered office under a new city charter that significantly weakened his powers; however, this did not stop him from cutting city spending (including spending from the formerly separate county government). Nor did this loss of authority stop Burr from reforming the office of city treasurer. (He changed the salary from a percentage of the city receipts to a fixed wage to stop graft.)
wn.com/Ephraim_Willard_Burr -
Eugene Schmitz
Eugene Edward Schmitz (August 22, 1864, San Francisco – November 20, 1928, San Francisco) was an American politician and the 26th mayor of San Francisco, who became notorious for his conviction by a jury on charges of corruption.
"Handsome Gene" was the son of an Irish mother and a German father. He had played the violin and conducted the orchestra at the Columbia Theatre on Powell Street in San Francisco. Schmitz was president of the Musicians' Union, when Abe Ruef chose him to run for mayor on the ticket of the Union Labor Party. Schmitz was elected in 1902 and was the mayor of his hometown when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire destroyed a prodigious amount of the city. On the day of the earthquake, Wednesday, April 18, he invited a cross section of the city's most prominent businessmen, politicians and civic leaders, but none of the members of the Board of Supervisors, to form the Committee of Fifty to help him manage the crisis.
On June 13, 1907, Schmitz was found guilty of extortion, and the office of Mayor was declared vacant. He was sent to jail to await sentence. Shortly thereafter he was sentenced to five years at San Quentin State Prison, the maximum sentence the law allowed. He immediately appealed. While awaiting the outcome of the appeal, Schmitz was kept in a cell in San Francisco County Jail.
wn.com/Eugene_Schmitz -
Faoa Aitofele Sunia
Faoa Aitofele Toese Fiti Sunia (born March 27, 1943 Fagatogo, American Samoa), formerly known by the title of Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia, is an American Samoan lawyer and politician. Sunia has served as the Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa since April 11, 2003.
Sunia was born on March 27, 1943, in Fagatogo, American Samoa. His parents were Elder Rev. Fiti and Savali Alesana Sunia. His father was a minister. Sunia was later adopted by Toese Namu Sagapolutele and Samanu Alo Sagapolutele.
Sunia was educated at Marist Elementary School, Feleti Memorial Demonstration Junior High School and Samoana High School. His family moved to Hawaii when he was a teenager, so Sunia graduated from President Theodore Roosevelt High School in Honolulu in 1962. Following his graduation from high school, Sunia attended Concord College, located in Athens, West Virginia, from 1962 until 1965.
Sunia is married to Elisapeta Pula Nikolao Iuli. The couple have seven children and one grandchild. According to his official biography, Sunia is a member of the Lions Clubs International, Masons and the Shriners.
wn.com/Faoa_Aitofele_Sunia -
Fiona Ma
Fiona Ma (simplified Chinese: 马世云; traditional Chinese: 馬世雲; pinyin: Mǎ Shìyún; born March 4, 1966) is the Speaker pro Tempore California State Assembly and a San Francisco politician, and a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Ma is the oldest of three children born to William and Sophia Ma, both Chinese immigrants. Her grandfather, Lieutenant General Ma Zhen, was the first mayor of Kunming, Republic of China.
She has a younger brother and sister. Born and raised in New York, she attended Baker Elementary School before graduating from Great Neck North Middle and High School. Her father, Dr. William Ma was a civil engineer who later specialized in construction claims and litigation before he retired. Her mother, Sophia (née Doo), was a high school art teacher for 20 years before moving to San Francisco to be closer to her parents. Dr. William Ma was posted as a minister at the San Francisco Swatow Christian Church in San Francisco's Sunset District.
She received a bachelor's degree in accounting at Rochester Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in taxation from Golden Gate University, and an MBA from Pepperdine University. She is currently a CPA. and a Member of the Aspen Institute's 2009 Class of Aspen-Rodel Fellows
wn.com/Fiona_Ma -
Frank Jordan
Francis M. “Frank” Jordan (born February 20, 1935) is a U.S. politician, foundation executive and former Chief of Police.
Jordan was born in San Francisco in 1935 and graduated from Sacred Heart High School in 1953. He studied political science and government at the University of San Francisco during his time of the police force and graudated in 1975.
He served as the Mayor of San Francisco, California from 1992, succeeding Art Agnos, until January, 1996, after being defeated by former California State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown in the November, 1995 mayoral election. He continued Agnos' campaign against the city's chapter of Food Not Bombs and introduced a controversial program called Matrix which aimed to deal with the city's homelessness problems. During his mayoral tenure Jordan played a role in converting the Presidio Army Base into part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, bringing Bay Area Rapid Transit to the San Francisco International Airport, keeping the San Francisco Giants in the city and balancing the city's budget.
wn.com/Frank_Jordan -
Frank McCoppin
Frank McCoppin (July 4, 1834, County Longford, Ireland – May 26, 1897, San Francisco, California) was the first Irish-born Mayor of San Francisco. He was married in 1862 to Elizabeth Bird Van Ness in San Francisco, thereby becoming the son-in-law of former mayor James Van Ness.
McCoppin was a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1851 until he emigrated to the United States in 1853. In 1860, he was made supervisor of the Market Street Railway, where he encouraged planting among the railroad tracks, to lessen the problem of drifting sands. Shortly thereafter, he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He then was elected mayor in 1867, serving from December 2, 1867 to December 5, 1869. He and the Board of Supervisors approved the plan for Golden Gate Park January 14, 1868. However, questions regarding his citizenship (word had leaked that he was not a naturalized U.S. citizen when he was supervisor or that he applied for citizenship during his term) led to his defeat in the 1869 election.
wn.com/Frank_McCoppin -
Frank Merriam
Frank Finley Merriam (December 22, 1865 – April 25, 1955) was an American politician who served as the 28th 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. Merriam also served as the Iowa State Auditor 1900-1903, and served in the California and Iowa State Legislatures.
Born in 1865 in Hopkinton, Iowa, Merriam spent nearly half of his life in his home state and the Midwest. After a brief career in education as a school superintendent in Wisner, Nebraska, Merriam was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives as a Republican at the age of 31 in 1896. Two years later, Merriam was elected as Iowa State Auditor, a post he would hold until 1903. In 1910 at the age of 44, Merriam moved to California. Following seven years of living in the state, Merriam was elected to the California State Assembly in 1916, representing the Long Beach area, beginning his rise in California politics.
wn.com/Frank_Merriam -
Franklin Knight Lane
Franklin Knight Lane (July 15, 1864 – May 18, 1921) was an American Democratic politician from California who served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1913 to 1920. He also served as a commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of California in 1902, losing a narrow race in what was then a heavily Republican state.
Lane was born July 15, 1864, near Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, in what was then a British colony but is now part of Canada, and in 1871, his family moved to California. After attending the University of California while working part time as a reporter, Lane became a New York correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, and later became editor and part owner of a newspaper. Elected City Attorney of San Francisco in 1898, a post he held for five years, Lane ran in 1902 for governor and in 1903 for mayor of San Francisco, losing both races. In 1903, he received the support of the Democratic minority in the California State Legislature during the legislature's vote to elect a United States Senator from California.
wn.com/Franklin_Knight_Lane -
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician who is the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of California. Previously, he was the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco, and was elected in 2003 to succeed Willie Brown, becoming San Francisco's youngest mayor in 100 years. Newsom was re-elected in 2007 with 72 percent of the vote. In 2010, Samepoint released a study that measured the social media influence of mayors around the country, and ranking the top 100 most social mayors. San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom was named the Most Social Mayor in America according to the Samepoint study.
Newsom graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, in 1985, and in 1989 from Santa Clara University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. His PlumpJack Wine Shop, founded in 1992, grew into a multimillion-dollar enterprise, and now includes bars, restaurants, and a Lake Tahoe hotel called Squaw Valley Inn. He was first appointed by Willie Brown to serve on San Francisco's Parking and Traffic Commission in 1996, and was appointed the following year as Supervisor. Newsom drew voter attention with his Care Not Cash program, designed to move homeless people into city assisted care. He defeated the Green Party's Matt Gonzalez 53% to 47% in a run-off in his race for mayor in 2003, becoming the youngest mayor of San Francisco since John W. Geary.
wn.com/Gavin_Newsom -
George Christopher
George Christopher (December 8, 1907 – September 14, 2000) was a Greek-American politician, and the 34th Mayor of San Francisco, serving in that office from January 1956 until January 1964. He was, as of 2012, the last Republican to be elected mayor of San Francisco; all San Francisco mayors since he left office have been Democrats.
Born George Christophes in Arcadia, Greece, the son of James Christophes and Mary Koines Christophes, Christopher and his family emigrated to the United States in 1910 and settled in San Francisco's South of Market Street neighborhood, then known as "Greektown", when Christopher was two years old. Christopher left day school at the age of fourteen when his father James died, and he became sole support of his family. He sold papers, then talked his way into a job at the San Francisco Examiner as a copy boy. In 1935, he married Tula Sarantitis, daughter of a baker whom George did bookkeeping for.
After studying accounting at Golden Gate College from which he earned a BA in Accounting in 1930, he worked for numerous small firms keeping their accounts and eventually bought out a small dairy on Fillmore Street, which became the Christopher Dairy. He was prosecuted in the 1940s for breaking the newly passed milk price-fixing laws.
wn.com/George_Christopher -
George Hewston
George Hewston (September 11, 1826 – September 4, 1891) was appointed the 16th Mayor of San Francisco upon the death of James Otis. He was sworn in on November 4, 1875 and served until December 5, 1875.
Hewston was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He apprenticed himself to a physician and then took a medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania. He moved with his family to San Francisco to escape the Civil War.
Hewston established a new medical practice upon his arrival, supplementing his income by lecturing at the Toland College of Medicine (later UCSF). His skill at lecturing brought him to the attention of the People's Party, which nominated him for Supervisor. He was appointed mayor to finish James Otis's unfinished term.
During his brief term, Hewston sat in on an investigation into charges against six policemen. He also refused to make inflated payments for unspecified repairs. He was known for making a speech condemning the Chinese for bringing opium into the city.
wn.com/George_Hewston -
George Moscone
George Richard Moscone ( /mɒsˈkoʊni/; November 24, 1929 – November 27, 1978) was an American attorney and Democratic politician. He was the 37th mayor of San Francisco, California, US from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978. Moscone served in the California State Senate from 1967 until becoming Mayor. In the Senate, he served as Majority Leader.
Moscone was born in San Francisco, California. His father was George Joseph Moscone, a prison guard, and his mother, Lena, was a homemaker.
Moscone attended St. Brigid's, and then St. Ignatius College Preparatory, where he was an all-city basketball star. He then attended University of the Pacific. While in college, Moscone befriended John L. Burton, who would later become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Moscone then studied at University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he received his law degree. He met and married Gina Bondanza, in 1954. The Moscones would go on to have four children. After serving in the United States Navy, Moscone started private practice in 1956.
wn.com/George_Moscone -
Goodwin Knight
Goodwin Jess “Goodie” 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 (son of Jesse 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. One of his classmates was Jimmy Doolittle. He earned an A.B. in Law and Business from Stanford University, where he was a member of the Stanford Chaparral, in 1919. Knight also attended Cornell University. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War I.
Knight was a judge of the Superior Court in Los Angeles beginning in 1935. He was reelected in 1936 and 1942 without significant opposition. His case load varied from the glamorous to the mundane. He oversaw weddings and divorces for Hollywood starlets.
wn.com/Goodwin_Knight -
Goodwin Liu
Goodwin Hon Liu (Chinese: 劉弘威, Liú Hóngwēi; born October 19, 1970) is an American lawyer and educator who currently serves as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Before his appointment by California Governor Jerry Brown, Liu was Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Liu has been recognized for his writing on constitutional law, education policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court.
On February 24, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Liu to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. For more than a year, Liu's nomination languished, amid significant opposition from Republicans in the U.S. Senate. On May 19, 2011, the Senate rejected cloture on Liu's nomination in a 52-43 vote, and on May 25, 2011, Liu informed President Obama that he was withdrawing his name from consideration to the seat on the Ninth Circuit, telling the president that "With no possibility of an up-or-down vote on the horizon, my family and I have decided that it is time for us to regain the ability to make plans for the future." On July 29, 2011, President Obama formally notified the Senate that he was withdrawing Liu's nomination for the 9th Circuit.
wn.com/Goodwin_Liu -
Gordon Getty
Gordon Peter Getty was born on December 20, 1934. He is the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork, was his father's fourth wife. When his father died in 1976, Gordon assumed control of Getty's US$2 billion trust. According to the Forbes 400, as of September 2011 his net worth is $2 billion, making him number 212 on the list of the richest Americans.
Getty was raised in San Francisco, California, attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory, and earned a B.A. in music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He married Ann Gilbert in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Christmas Day, 1964. The wedding was witnessed by William Newsom, Gordon's longtime friend, and father of Gavin Newsom.
He joined the oil business to please his father; however, he eventually sold the family's Getty Oil to Texaco in 1986 for US$10 billion. In 1983, Forbes magazine ranked him the richest person in America with a net worth little over $2 billion.
His current net worth is cited as US$2 billion, making him the 212th richest person in the United States. Getty helped finance Gavin Newsom's PlumpJack Group businesses, including five restaurants, a Napa Valley winery, a Squaw Valley hotel and resort, and two retail clothing stores. Of Newsom’s 11 enterprises, Gordon Getty was the lead investor in 10.
wn.com/Gordon_Getty -
Gray Davis
Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis, Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is an American Democratic politician who served as California's 37th Governor from 1999 until being recalled in 2003. Prior to serving as Governor, Davis served as Chief of Staff to Governor Jerry Brown (1975–1981), California State Assemblyman (1983–1987), California State Controller (1987–1995), and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California (1995–1999). Davis holds a B.A. in history from Stanford University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service as a Captain in the Vietnam War.
During his time as Governor, Davis made education his top priority and California spent eight billion dollars more than was required under Proposition 98 during his first term. Under Davis, California standardized test scores increased for five straight years. Davis signed the nation's first state law requiring automakers to limit auto emissions. Davis supported laws to ban assault weapons. He is also credited with improving relations between California and Mexico. Davis began his tenure as Governor with strong approval ratings, but those ratings declined as voters blamed Davis for the California electricity crisis and the California budget crisis that followed the dot-com bubble burst. Voters were also alienated by Davis’s record breaking fundraising efforts and negative campaigning.
wn.com/Gray_Davis -
Gregory Francis
Gregory R. Francis (born August 30, 1951 Saint Croix) is a politician in the United States Virgin Islands. A Democrat, he has served as Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands since January 1, 2007, having been elected on a ticket with Governor John de Jongh.
Gregory Francis was born in Saint Croix on August 30, 1951, to Olric Francis and Hyacinth Wilson-Francis. He is one of seven siblings, the others of whom are Olrick, Herbert, Kathleen, Howard, Milton, Kenneth, and Arthur.
Francis attended Christiansted Grammar School, Christiansted High School and Saint Croix Central High School. He received a paralegal certificate from the University of the Virgin Islands in 1984 while serving in the United States Army.
Francis moved to New York after graduation from high school, where he planned to attend a trade school. However, because of a one-year residency requirement for the school, Francis enlisted in the United States Army instead.
Francis would spend 27 years in the Army. He served as a Command Program Support Specialist, Supervisory Military Personal Specialist and a Recruiting and Retention Manager. He was stationed in Germany, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands during his military career.
wn.com/Gregory_Francis -
Henry Perrin Coon
Henry Perrin Coon (September 30, 1822 – December 4, 1884) was the 11th Mayor of San Francisco who served from July 1, 1863 to December 1, 1867. He was one of the most versatile men ever to hold the office, having previously worked as a teacher, doctor, lawyer, druggist and businessman.
Coon was born on September 30, 1822 in Columbia County, New York, the youngest of 13 children, and was raised in the Presbyterian church. His parents sent him to Claverack Academy, near Hudson, New York, where he spent two or three years. He then attended Williams College where he graduated with the class of 1844. After college, he was the superintendent of Claverack Academy for a short time before beginning studies for the ministry. After about a year, his biography records that a severe cold settled into his throat that spoiled his voice for public speaking, which he ultimately regained in California's milder climate. At that point, he selected medicine as his profession. After receiving his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Medicine in 1848, he returned to Hudson, New York where he married Ruthetta Folger on September 18, 1849. He then established a medical practice in Syracuse, New York. In 1853, he left for California, leaving his wife and infant daughter behind for the time being, although they joined him the following year. He and Ruthetta ultimately had four children: three sons and a daughter.
wn.com/Henry_Perrin_Coon -
Isaac Smith Kalloch
Isaac Smith Kalloch (July 10, 1832 – December 9, 1887) was the 18th Mayor of San Francisco serving from December 1, 1879 to December 4, 1881. He was born at Rockland, Maine and was a native of Maine. Kalloch was a Baptist minister and came to California looking to spread the Baptist religion.
In 1879, he decided to run for mayor of San Francisco. It wasn't long before he came under attack from the San Francisco Chronicle's editor-in-chief, Charles DeYoung, who was backing another candidate. DeYoung, with the hopes of taking Kalloch out of the mayoral race, accused the minister of having an affair. Kalloch responded by accusing Charles' mother, Amelia, of running a brothel. In response, Charles DeYoung ambushed Kalloch in the streets of San Francisco and shot him twice. Kalloch survived the wounds and with the sympathy of voters was elected the 18th Mayor of San Francisco. He served from 1879 until 1881. On April 23, 1880, Kalloch's son, Isaac Milton Kalloch, entered the Chronicle building and shot and killed Charles DeYoung. After his time in office, Kalloch left San Francisco and moved to the Washington Territory. He died of diabetes in Bellingham, Washington, aged 55.
wn.com/Isaac_Smith_Kalloch -
James Rolph
James “Sunny Jim” Rolph, Jr. (August 23, 1869 – June 2, 1934) was an American politician and a member of the Republican Party. He was elected to a single term as the 27th governor of California from January 6, 1931 until his death on June 2, 1934 at the height of the Great Depression. Previously, Rolph had been the 30th mayor of San Francisco from January 8, 1912 until his resignation to become governor. Rolph remains the longest serving mayor in San Francisco history.
James Rolph was born in San Francisco on August 23, 1869. He had one younger brother. After attending school in the Mission District, he went to work as an office boy in a commission house. He married Annie Marshall Reid (1872-1956) and had at least one son: James Rolph, III (1904-1980).
He entered the shipping business in 1900, by forming a partnership with George Hind. He would over the next decade, serve as president of two banks, one of which he helped establish. Although he was asked to run for mayor in 1909, he chose to wait until 1911 to run for mayor – a position that he would hold for nineteen years. As mayor, he was known as "Sunny Jim" and his theme song was "There Are Smiles That Make You Happy". In 1915 he appeared as himself in an early documentary film titled Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco, which was directed by and starred Fatty Arbuckle. In 1924, Rolph appeared as himself in a Slim Summerville comedy short film, Hello, Frisco.[citation needed]
wn.com/James_Rolph -
James Roosevelt
James Roosevelt (December 23, 1907 – August 13, 1991) was the oldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was a United States Congressman, an officer in the United States Marine Corps, an aide to his father, the official Secretary to the President, a Democratic Party activist, and a businessman.
Roosevelt was born in New York City at 125 East 36th Street. He attended the Potomac School and the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., and the Groton School in Massachusetts. At Groton, he rowed and played football, as well as serving as a prefect in his senior year. After graduation in 1926, he attended Harvard University, where he rowed with the freshman and junior varsity crews. At Harvard, he followed some family traditions, joining the Signet Society and Hasty Pudding Club, of which both his father, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, had been members, as well as the Fly Club, which his father had joined, and Institute of the 1770. He graduated from Harvard University in 1930 and was elected permanent treasurer of his class.
wn.com/James_Roosevelt -
James Van Ness
James Van Ness (1808 Burlington, Vermont – December 28, 1872) was the seventh mayor of San Francisco, USA from 1855 to 1856.
He was the son of Dutch-American Vermont Governor Cornelius Van Ness and father-in-law of future San Francisco mayor Frank McCoppin. Prior to being mayor, he had been a lawyer in the U.S. South and then a San Francisco city alderman. As alderman, he sponsored the "Van Ness Ordinance", which ordered all land within the city limits that was undeveloped at that time (that is, west of Larkin Street and southwest of Ninth Street) to be surveyed and then to be transferred to their original deedholders. Because there were many fraudulent deed holders at that time, this law led to many lawsuits for many years.
Van Ness was elected mayor as a Democrat in 1855. However, his administration proved ineffectual in the face of three major crises that arose. First, his election was called into question following allegations of irregularities in the outcome. Then, On November 18, 1855, Charles Cora fatally shot U.S. Marshal William H. Richardson. Cora sought the safety of the sheriff at the city jail and Van Ness pleaded with the mob that had surrounded the jail to disperse. Another high-profile murder occurred on May 14, 1856, when James P. Casey shot newspaper editor, James King of William after King wrote an unfavorable article about Casey. After King died on May 20, the Vigilantes reformed and tried Cora and Casey and convicted them of murder.
wn.com/James_Van_Ness -
Jay Dardenne
John Leigh "Jay" Dardenne, Jr. (born February 6, 1954), has been Louisiana's Republican lieutenant governor since November 22, 2010. He won a special election to the position held in conjunction with the regular November 2 general election. At the time, Dardenne was Louisiana secretary of state. Formerly, Dardenne (pronounced DAR DEN) was a state senator from the Baton Rouge suburbs, having served from 1992 until after his election as secretary of state on September 30, 2006.
Dardenne was reelected to a full term as secretary of state in the October 20, 2007, nonpartisan blanket primary. He received 758,156 votes (63 percent) to 373,956 (31 percent) for the Democrat R. Wooley. A "No Party" candidate, Scott Lewis, received the remaining 64,704 votes (5 percent). Dardenne won fifty-eight of the state's sixty-four parishes. Dardenne outpolled gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal, a fellow Republican, in raw votes and won sixty-one parishes to Jindal's sixty.
On November 2, 2010, Dardenne was elected the next Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, defeating opponent Caroline Fayard, a young Democrat originally from Denham Springs, in the 2010 State of Louisiana elections.Tom Schedler, Dardenne's chief deputy in the secretary of state's office, succeeded him in performing the responsibilities of the secretary of state when Dardenne was sworn in as lieutenant governor. Dardenne polled 719,243 votes (57 percent) to Fayard's 540,633 (43 percent). Dardenne won most of the sixty-four parishes but lost Orleans, Caddo, and St. Landry.
wn.com/Jay_Dardenne -
Jeff Colyer
Jeffrey "Jeff" Colyer, M.D. (born June 3, 1960) is the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a member of the Kansas Senate (2009–2011) and of the Kansas House of Representatives (2007–2009). He is also a physician, specializing in plastic surgery.
A fifth-generation Kansan, Jeff Colyer was raised in Hays, where his father worked as a dentist. He graduated from Thomas More Prep High School before enrolling at Georgetown University, where he earned undergraduate degrees in economics and pre-med in 1981. After receiving a Master's degree in International Relations from Cambridge University in 1982, he obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Kansas in 1986.
Colyer had residency training in general surgery at the Washington Hospital Center (1986–1988, 1989–1991); in plastic surgery at the University of Missouri–Kansas City (1991–1993); and in craniofacial/pediatric plastic surgery at the International Craniofacial Institute in Dallas, Texas (1993–1994). In 1988, during his residency in at the Washington Hospital Center, he was named a White House Fellow and served in the Executive Office of the President and Agency for International Development under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He is one of only three Kansans to be named a White House Fellow since the program was started by President Lyndon Johnson; another was Sam Brownback, under whom Colyer currently serves as lieutenant governor.
wn.com/Jeff_Colyer -
Jeff Kessler
Jeffrey Vincent "Jeff" Kessler is a Democratic member of the West Virginia Senate in the United States, representing the 2nd District since his appointment in November 1997 and subsequent reelections. In addition, Kessler serves as the incumbent President of the West Virginia Senate. According to Article 7, Section 16 of the West Virginia Constitution, Kessler, as Senate President, is first in line to act as Governor in the event that office is vacated. Because of this, West Virginia Code 6A-1-4(b) affords him the additional title of Lieutenant Governor. Kessler served as the Acting President of the Senate from January 12 to November 14, having been elected to the newly created post on January 12, 2011. This was the result of a series of events set into place after Governor Joe Manchin resigned upon his election to the U.S. Senate and Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin set aside his legislative duties to act as Governor.
Kessler previously served as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Kessler sought the Democratic nomination for governor in the May 14, 2011, primary, and was unsuccessful. Kessler is also involved in private practice, where he is a partner in the law firm Berry, Kessler, Crutchfield, Taylor & Gordon.
wn.com/Jeff_Kessler -
Jennifer Carroll
Jennifer Sandra Carroll (née Johnson, born August 27, 1959) is a Trinidadian-born American politician who is the 18th and current Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Florida. The first African American and the first woman elected to the position, she assumed the office on January 4, 2011. She is the first African-American person elected to statewide office. Carroll previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2003 until 2010.
Carroll was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. She moved to the United States at the age of eight, and graduated from Uniondale High School in Uniondale, New York in 1977. Carroll enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1979. After serving as an Aviation Machinist Mate (Jet Mechanic), she was selected for the Enlisted Commissioning Program, becoming an Aviation Maintenance Officer in 1985. She retired from the Navy in 1999 as a Lieutenant Commander. In 1981, she received an Associate of Arts degree from Leeward Community College. She followed this in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of New Mexico. She moved to Florida in 1986. She received a Master of Business Administration degree from unaccredited Kensington University in 1995, and then earned another Master of Business Administration degree online from St. Leo University in 2008.
wn.com/Jennifer_Carroll -
Jennifer Siebel
Jennifer Lynn Siebel (born June 19, 1974) is an American documentary filmmaker, actress and the wife of former San Francisco Mayor and current Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom. She is the director, writer and producer of the film Miss Representation, which premiered in the documentary competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The film examines how the media have contributed to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power.
Siebel was born in San Francisco to Ken, an investment manager (second cousin to software entrepreneur Thomas Siebel), and his wife Judy Siebel, co-founder of the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito. Siebel grew up in the Marin County community of Ross, California. Siebel is the oldest of four sisters. Siebel attended Ross Grammar School and The Branson School. During high school, she played varsity basketball, soccer, and tennis. She later graduated with honors from Stanford University, where she obtained a Bachelor's degree in 1996 and Master of Business Administration in 2001. Her studies focused on conservation policy and Third World development. At Stanford, she was recruited to play on the women's soccer team. While pursuing her MBA, Siebel also studied at the American Conservatory Theater, where she completed a certificate program. After completing her education, Siebel traveled to Africa, Latin America, and Europe on assignments with Conservation International, a global environmental coalition. Siebel worked in rain forest communities with a focus on helping indigenous populations and creating business enterprise opportunities for women. In 2002, Siebel moved to Hollywood, where she concentrated on building her acting career. Siebel earned many roles in television, film, and theater. Siebel has appeared on many television shows, including Mad Men, Strong Medicine, and Numb3rs.
wn.com/Jennifer_Siebel -
Jerry Abramson
Jerry Edwin Abramson (born September 12, 1946) is a Democratic politician who is the 55th and current Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.
Abramson previously served as the longest serving Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky. Before his most recent term as the Metro Mayor of the merged city-county government Louisville Metro (a merger he championed), Abramson was the only person to have served three terms as Mayor of Louisville, fulfilling the allowed term limit. Abramson's original third term was extended by one year as part of a state-mandated transition to align the dates of local and federal elections.
Abramson's long period of service to Louisville as its mayor, as well as the fact that Abramson had never faced strong opposition in mayoral elections, led to the nickname of "mayor for life" being used locally, including by Louisville's own popular radio personality Terry Meiners. Abramson's popularity resulted in Bluegrass Poll approval ratings ranging from a 91 percent high in 1990 to a 73 percent low in 1994.
wn.com/Jerry_Abramson -
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California (1975–83), and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor (2011–present). He is the son of Pat Brown, the 32nd Governor of California (1959–67).
Both before and after his first two terms as governor, Brown was elected to a number of state, local and party offices. Brown previously served as a member of the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees (1969–1971), Secretary of State of California (1971–1975), chairman of the California Democratic Party (1989–1991), Mayor of Oakland (1999–2007) and Attorney General of California (2007–2011).
At the time of his election to a third, non-consecutive term as governor, on November 2, 2010, Brown was serving as the 31st Attorney General of California, an elected position. Brown was formally inaugurated as governor on January 3, 2011, the 28th anniversary of the end of his last term. During his first term (as California's 34th Governor), he was the sixth-youngest Governor of that state. Upon his inauguration as California's 39th Governor, he became its oldest serving governor. At the age of 74, Brown is also the oldest currently serving governor in the United States.
wn.com/Jerry_Brown -
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) is an African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted "the most important black leader".
Jackson was born Jesse Louis Burns in Greenville, South Carolina, to Helen Burns, a 16-year-old single mother. His biological father, Noah Louis Robinson, a former professional boxer and a prominent figure in the community, was married to another woman when Jesse was born. He was not involved in his son's life, and died January 28, 1997 in Greenville, S.C. In 1943, two years after Jesse's birth, his mother married Charles Henry Jackson, who would adopt Jesse 14 years later. Jesse went on to take the surname of his stepfather.
wn.com/Jesse_Jackson -
Jim Cawley
James "Jim" Cawley (born June 22, 1969) is the 32nd and current Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania.
He graduated from Bishop Egan High School in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He then graduated cum laude from Temple University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He received a law degree from Temple University School of Law.
Prior to being elected to the Bucks County Board of Commissioners, he was Chief of Staff to State Senator Tommy Tomlinson. In 2000, he ran for a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the 141st District. Incumbent Democrat State Representative Anthony Melio won re-election by defeating Cawley 56%-42%. He was also a former Pennsylvania state chairman and national co-chairman of the College Republicans and served as an elected member of the Bristol Township School Board.
He serves on the County Commissioner's Association of Pennsylvania's Energy, Environment, & Land Use Committee as Vice Chairman. Jim is a former member of the board of directors for Lower Bucks Hospital, a former trustee of Bucks County Community College and a former Commonwealth trustee of Temple University.
wn.com/Jim_Cawley -
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom (born January 18, 1982) is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.
Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California. As a child, Newsom was not allowed to watch television or listen to the radio because she was raised by doctors who were "kind of idealists when it came to hoping they could protect us from bad influences, like violent movies, or stupid stuff". She was exposed to music from a young age. Her father played the guitar and her mother was a classically trained pianist who played the hammered dulcimer, the autoharp and conga drums. Newsom attended a Waldorf school where she studied theater and learned to memorize and recite long poems. This skill helps her to remember lyrics while on tour.
At the age of five, Newsom asked her parents if she could play the harp. Her parents eventually agreed to sign her up for harp lessons, but the local harp teacher did not want to take on such a young student and suggested she learn to play the piano first. Starting at the age of four, she began playing the piano and later the harp, which she "loved from the first lesson onward." From her instructor, Joanna learned composition and improvisation. She learned to play on smaller Celtic harps until her parents bought her a full-size pedal harp in the seventh grade. During her teens, she and the instrument became inseparable, and she describes her relationship with the harp as similar to "an artificial limb or a wheelchair. It’s almost part of me, but more to the point, it serves a purpose, and if it wasn’t there I would wonder what was supposed to fit in its place."
wn.com/Joanna_Newsom -
John Bohlinger
John Bohlinger, Jr. (born April 21, 1936) is the current Lieutenant Governor of Montana. Bohlinger for lieutenant governor ran as a Republican on a bipartisan ticket headed by Democrat Brian Schweitzer. Schweitzer and Bohlinger were elected governor and lieutenant governor in the 2004 election and both were reelected in the 2008 election.
Bohlinger was born in Bozeman, Montana in 1936 to John and Aileen Bohlinger. In 1941, the family moved to Billings, Montana where his parents operated a women's apparel store, Aileen's.
While enrolled at Billings Senior High School, Bohlinger enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. He went on to the University of Montana where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business. The Marine Corps called him to service after his sophomore year and he completed his university career after completing his service with the Marine Corps. Bohlinger spent the next 33 years as a small businessman working in the family clothing business. He was the husband of Bette Cobetto, who died of cancer on January 9, 2006. Bohlinger married Karen Seiler in Helena on January 12, 2008.
wn.com/John_Bohlinger -
John Daggett
John Daggett served as the 16th Lieutenant Governor of California from 1883 to 1887. The site known as Calico Junction just south of the mining town of Calico, California, was renamed Daggett, California, in 1883 for Lieutenant Governor John Daggett.
On May 18, 1893 he was nominated by President Grover Cleveland to serve as Superintendent of the United States Mint at San Francisco, a position he held until 1897.
John is associated with the rare 1894-S Barber dime. One version of the story indicates that the 24 coins were struck June 9, 1894 to provide a balance of forty cents needed to close a bullion account at the Mint June 30, 1894. It was anticipated that more dimes would be struck that year, albeit two or three pieces were obtained by Mint employees eager to have a new dime (with two or three going to Chief Coiner Charles Gorham). The balance were placed in coin bags, destined for circulation.
Another story goes that John had 24 dimes struck as a special request for some visiting bankers. According to daughter Hallie as recounted much later, her father presented three coins each to seven people, with the remaining three given to her with instructions to save them until she was as old as he was, at which time she would be able to sell them for a good price. Apparently she spent one coin on ice cream on the way home; this now well-worn coin is said to have sold for $2.40 in Gimbel's department store in New York City in 1957 and it sold for $34,100 at auction in 1981. Much later Hallie sold the remaining two dimes to California dealer Earl Parker.
wn.com/John_Daggett -
John Garamendi
John Raymond Garamendi (born January 24, 1945) is an American politician and the U.S. Representative for California's 10th congressional district, serving since November 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Garamendi was the California State Insurance Commissioner from 1991 to 1995, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 1995 to 1998, and the California State Insurance Commissioner again from 2003 to 2007. He then served as the 46th Lieutenant Governor of California from January 8, 2007 until he was elected to Congress in November 2009.
Garamendi was temporarily a candidate for Governor of California in the 2010 election after announcing his candidacy on July 31, 2008. However, he suspended his candidacy on April 29, 2009, to run for Congress in the 10th congressional district. This seat was vacated by Ellen Tauscher, who resigned to become Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Garamendi won the Democratic Party nomination in the primary election for the seat on September 1 and then won the special election on November 3, 2009. Garamendi was re-elected to a full term in 2010.
wn.com/John_Garamendi -
John Mansfield
John Mansfield (August 1822 – May 6, 1896) was the 15th Lieutenant Governor of California from 1880 to 1883. He also was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, serving as the last colonel of the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the famed Iron Brigade.
Mansfield responded to President Abraham Lincoln's call to arms in 1861 following the secession of the twelve Southern states that comprised the Confederacy. He enlisted in a local Wisconsin company, the Portage Guards, which became a part of the 2nd Wisconsin, initially brigaded under William T. Sherman. Mansfield first saw action at the First Battle of Bull Run. He served at many of the important battles of the Army of the Potomac, including the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, and Gettysburg, where, as the regiment's major, he assumed command of the 2nd Wisconsin after the senior officer, Lucius Fairchild, was shot. He was subsequently promoted to lieutenant colonel and served in the Bristoe and Mine Run Campaigns. As Colonel of the 2nd Wisconsin, he was wounded and captured in May 1864 at the Battle of the Wilderness.
wn.com/John_Mansfield -
John Morton Eshleman
John Morton Eshleman (June 14, 1876–February 28, 1916) was an American lawyer and politician from California. He was Lieutenant Governor of California from 1915 to 1916.
A native of the Midwest, Eshleman was born in Villa Ridge, Illinois, but went west in 1896 to work on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Eshleman received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in 1902, and the next year he received his Master of Arts there. At Berkeley, he was president of the student government. Eshleman was admitted to the California Bar in 1905 and was appointed Deputy State Labor Commissioner by Governor George Pardee.
Eshleman ran for the state legislature on a Republican and Union-Labor ticket and was elected to the 38th California Assembly from the 52d District (Berkeley) in 1907. Though appointed Deputy District Attorney of Alameda County, he did not serve, moving instead to the Imperial Valley in Southern California for the dry air because of his poor health. When Imperial County was created from the eastern part of San Diego County in August 1907, Eshleman was chosen the first District Attorney of the county, serving 1907 to 1910.
wn.com/John_Morton_Eshleman -
John Pérez
John A. Pérez (born September 28, 1969) is a union organizer and politician from Los Angeles, California, who has been the Speaker of the California State Assembly since March 1, 2010. A Democrat, he represents the 46th district in the California State Assembly.
Pérez grew up in El Sereno and Highland Park before attending the University of California, Berkeley. He did not graduate from Berkeley but instead dropped out after his junior year due to family medical reasons, choosing not to return for a fourth year in the fall of 1990. Various biographies of Pérez dating back to the 1990s had falsely stated that he was a Berkeley graduate, an assertion included in several press releases issued by mayors of Los Angeles and in 2004 remarks inserted by then-Congresswoman Hilda Solis into the Congressional Record. When the San Francisco Chronicle wrote about these inconsistencies in May 2011, Pérez's office clarified that he was not, in fact, a Berkeley graduate.
Pérez is the cousin of Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and has spent seven years handling political matters for the United Food and Commercial Workers, a union representing supermarket workers, and also has served as political director of the California Labor Federation. He was a member of the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency until 2008, when he resigned from the board in order to run for the Assembly.
wn.com/John_Pérez -
John Sanchez
John A. Sanchez (born 1963) is an American politician and, as of January 1, 2011, the 31st Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico after winning the primary election on June 1, 2010, and the general election on November 2, 2010.
John Sanchez, the youngest of eight children, was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico's North Valley. Sanchez's great, great grandfather was a territorial legislator in 1860, and his grandfather served as a state representative in 1930. In 1997, Sanchez was elected Trustee for the Village of Los Ranchos and later served in the New Mexico House of Representatives from 2000-2002.
Sanchez, a one-time flight attendant and real estate agent, started Right Way Roofing, a small business in Albuquerque, after high school. In 1993, Right Way Roofing was named Small Business of the Year by the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce.
Sanchez was elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives, defeating 30-year incumbent and Speaker of the House Raymond Sanchez, 51%-49%, a difference of just 206 votes.
wn.com/John_Sanchez -
John Shelley
John Francis "Jack" Shelley (September 3, 1905 – September 1, 1974) was a U.S. politician. He served as the 35th mayor of San Francisco, from 1964 to 1968, the first Democrat elected to the office in 50 years, and the first in an unbroken line of Democratic mayors that lasts to the present (as of 2012[update]).
Shelley earned a law degree from the University of San Francisco in 1932. He served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II and was a member of the California State Senate from 1938 to 1946. He ran an unsuccessful race for the Lieutenant Governor's office against Goodwin Knight in 1946. Shelley would then make his mark as a leader of the California delegation to the 1948 Democratic National Convention, when he would help marshal his state's votes to support a strong civil rights plank. Shelley entered the United States House of Representatives in 1949 and served until 1964, when he ran for mayor of San Francisco and won by a 12-point margin against his opponent, Harold Dobbs.
wn.com/John_Shelley -
Joseph Alioto
Joseph Lawrence Alioto (February 12, 1916 – January 29, 1998) was the 36th mayor of San Francisco, California, from 1968 to 1976.
Alioto was born in San Francisco in 1916. His father was a Sicilian immigrant who owned and operated several fish processing companies. His mother, Domenica Mae Lazio, was born in San Francisco in 1893. His parents met on a fishing boat while escaping the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
He attended Saint Ignatius College Prep. Alioto graduated with honors from St. Mary's College in Moraga, California in 1937 and from law school at The Catholic University of America with honors, in Washington, D.C. in 1940.
Alioto worked for the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department and then for the Board of Economic Warfare. He returned to San Francisco after World War II and started an antitrust practice, representing Walt Disney and Samuel Goldwyn, among others, eventually becoming a millionaire. He argued the Radovich v. National Football League case before the Supreme Court, convincing the justices that professional football, unlike baseball, was subject to antitrust laws.
wn.com/Joseph_Alioto -
Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20, 1964) is an American attorney. She is the 32nd and current Attorney General of California following the 2010 California state elections. Harris has worked as an author and a politician and served as District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011. First elected in 2003, defeating incumbent district attorney Terence Hallinan, she was re-elected in 2007. Harris is the first female,African-American and Asian American attorney general in California as well as the first ethnic Indian American attorney general in the United States.
Harris was born in Oakland, California. She is the daughter of a Tamil mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan—a breast cancer specialist who immigrated to the United States from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in 1960—and a Jamaican American father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris. She has one younger sister, Maya Harris. While the Harris sisters grew up in a household that blended Hindu and Baptist teachings, she is currently a practicing Baptist.
wn.com/Kamala_Harris -
Kathleen Brown
Kathleen Lynn Brown (born September 25, 1945) is a Democratic politician from California. She is the youngest of four children of former Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown and is the sister of current California Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr
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.
Brown unsuccessfully tried to be the third member of the Brown family to serve as governor (her brother, the current governor, previously held that office from 1975 to 1983), but was defeated by incumbent Republican Governor Pete Wilson (who had previously defeated Jerry Brown for one of California's US Senate seats in 1982) in the 1994 gubernatorial election.
She currently serves as head of public finance for the Midwest region for Goldman Sachs, after taking positions as president of private banking for Bank of America from 1995 to 2000 and as head of public sector and infrastructure investment for Goldman Sachs from 2001 to 2010. Staying in California for public sector banking would have likely posed a potential conflict of interest.
wn.com/Kathleen_Brown -
Kathryn Werdegar
Kathryn Mickle Werdegar (born April 5, 1936) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. She was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Pete Wilson in 1994. She was retained by the electorate in November 2002, with 74.1% percent of the vote. She earned her B.A. with honors at the University of California, Berkeley and then attended the (Boalt Hall School of Law) before completing her law degree at the George Washington University Law School, where she graduated first in her class.
wn.com/Kathryn_Werdegar -
Kay Ivey
Kay Ellen Ivey (born October 15, 1944) is a Republican politician and formerly served as the 38th Alabama State Treasurer. Ivey is the 30th and current Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, since January 2011.
Ivey was born in Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama in 1944. She graduated from Auburn University. She has worked as a high school teacher, a bank officer and as Assistant Director of the Alabama Development Office. In 1982, Ivey had run unsuccessfully for State Auditor as a Democrat. She was Director of Government Affairs and Communications for the Alabama Commission on Higher Education from 1985 until 1998.
Ivey took office as State Treasurer in 2003, after defeating Stephen Black, the grandson of former United States Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, in the 2002 general election, by a margin of 52–48%. In 2006, Ivey was re-elected over Democrat Steve Segrest by a 60–40% margin. She was the first Republican elected State Treasurer since Reconstruction.
As Treasurer, Ivey put the sources of state’s billions of dollars in tax revenue, as well as the state's total expenditures, online for public view. She updated the office's technology, trimmed the payroll and adopted private-sector management techniques. As a result, Treasurer Ivey saved the taxpayer nearly five million dollars in administrative costs during her term.
wn.com/Kay_Ivey -
Ken Bennett
Ken Bennett (born 1959) is a Republican politician and businessman who served as president of the Arizona Senate, and is currently serving as the Secretary of State of Arizona.
Bennett was born in Tucson into a family that were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). He later moved to Prescott, Arizona, where he attended Prescott High School and Yavapai College. Between terms there he served a two-year mission in southern Japan. In 1981 he transferred to Arizona State University and graduated with a degree in accounting.
In 2008, Bennett was named Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of GeoBio Energy, a company attempting to develop and market alternative fuel from plant sources such as algae. Bennett served as CEO of his family fuel distribution business, Bennett's Oil Co., from 1985 to 2006.
In 1989, several underground petroleum storage tanks owned by Bennett's Oil Co. released petroleum into the environment. In the years following, Bennett's undertook various remedies to decontaminate the area, paid for by its insurance company. Bennett's insurer, Federated Mutual Insurance, submitted five separate applications to the state for periodic reimbursement of the cleanup costs. The first four were approved, but the last was denied under a recently enacted act limiting reimbursement to costs not covered by insurance. Bennett's appealed the denial in court, arguing that the law was intended only to prevent double recovery, not to limit the state to providing only secondary insurance. The court affirmed the state's interpretation of the law and denied reimbursement.
wn.com/Ken_Bennett -
Kenneth McClintock
Kenneth D. McClintock-Hernández (born January 19, 1957) is the Secretary of State of Puerto Rico. Mr. McClintock served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign's National Hispanic Leadership Council in 2008, co-chaired Clinton's successful Puerto Rico primary campaign that year and served as the Thirteenth President of the Senate of Puerto Rico until his term ended on December 31, 2008. In late 2008, he served as President of then-Governor-Elect Luis Fortuño's Transition Committee. He was sworn into office as Secretary of State on January 2, 2009 by Chief Justice Federico Hernández Denton, fulfilling the role of Lieutenant Governor (first-in-line of succession) in the islands.
Kenneth Davison McClintock-Hernández was born in London, England, on January 19, 1957. His father, George Davison McClintock (1925–2001), an Irish-American architect born in Texas City, Texas, was working for the United States Air Force at the time. McClintock's mother, Nívea M. Hernández (1931–2000), born in Puerto Rico, was a university professor and a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Puerto Rico. Kenneth, along with his brother Steven George and his sister Elaine Mercedes, were raised and educated in Puerto Rico.
wn.com/Kenneth_McClintock -
Kevin Raye
Kevin L. Raye (born February 7, 1961) is an American politician. Raye is a Republican member of the Maine Senate, representing the 29th district in northeastern Washington County. In December 2010, Raye became President of the Maine Senate, and as such, is next in line to the governorship of Maine.
Raye was born February 7, 1961 in Eastport, Maine. He is one of eight sons of Harry Raye, an electrician and a veteran of World War II, and Frances Morrison Raye, a teacher. He graduated from Shead Memorial High School in Eastport and earned a degree in political science from Bates College in Lewiston.
Along with his wife Karen, he owns and operates the historic Raye's Mustard Mill, which has been run by members of the Raye family since 1900. He spent seventeen years working for former U.S. Representative and current U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe. He served as her Chief of Staff for six years.
Raye represents Maine Senate District 29. District 29 includes a portion of Hancock County.
Raye won re-election to the 29th District Seat in 2010, defeating Democrat F. James Whalen ran for the seat on the Democratic ticket. On November 4, 2008, Raye won re-election by defeating Karen Johnson and Dana Kadey.
wn.com/Kevin_Raye -
Kevin Shelley
Kevin Francis Shelley (born November 16, 1955) is a California politician, who was the 28th California Secretary of State from January 6, 2003, until his resignation on March 4, 2005.
Shelley was raised in San Francisco, the only son in a family of five. His father, Jack Shelley, was a State Senator, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Mayor of San Francisco.
Shelley graduated from St. Ignatius High School in 1973. He received his B.A. in political science from the University of California, Davis. He obtained his J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
He joined the staff of Congressman Phillip Burton and continued in his position when Sala Burton assumed her husband's seat after his death.
In 1990, Shelley was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. In 1996, he won a seat in the California State Assembly. While in these positions, Shelley wrote clinic protection ordinances and sunshine laws to make government more accountable. He authored the Marine Life Protection Act that protects coastal ecosystems, the California Nursing Home Reform Act to protect the elderly, and the Healthy Schools Act to protect children from pesticides. He created a voting reform package that includes a Voters' Bill of Rights and allows each voter to permanently vote by mail. Term limits prevented Shelley from seeking a fourth term as an Assemblyman in 2002, so he sought election as California's Secretary of State, the state's chief elections official.
wn.com/Kevin_Shelley -
Kim Guadagno
Kim Guadagno (pronounced gwah-DAH-nyoh; born April 13, 1959) is the first Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey, having won the 2009 election as the running mate of Governor Chris Christie. She is also concurrently the Secretary of State of New Jersey.
Born as Kimberly Ann McFadden in Waterloo, Iowa. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ursinus College in 1980, and a law degree in 1983 from the American University's Washington College of Law.
Kim Guadagno is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and the District of New Jersey. She was also Assistant New Jersey Attorney General. Serving as deputy chief of the U.S. Attorney's office's corruption unit from 1994–98, Guadagno was responsible for the corruption prosecutions of former Essex County Executive Thomas D'Alessio (a Democrat) and of Somerset County Prosecutor Nicholas Bissell (a Republican). In1994, in a case involving an executive of lottery contractor GTECH Corporation, the U.S. Attorney's Office was criticized by the judge overseeing the case for the disclosure of grand jury testimony in a sentencing report; the issue was never referred for further ethical or legal investigation. The lottery executive went to jail.
wn.com/Kim_Guadagno -
Kim Reynolds
Kim Reynolds is the 47th and current Lieutenant Governor of Iowa and a former state senator from Osceola. Republican nominee for Governor Terry Branstad publicly proposed Reynolds for lieutenant governor on June 25, 2010 and she received the Republican nomination from the 2010 Republican State Convention on June 26. Reynolds was elected to represent Iowa Senate District 48 in 2008 and resigned on November 12, 2010 to work on the transition to "focus solely on assisting Gov. (Terry) Branstad’s transition team."
Prior to being elected to the Iowa Senate, she served four terms as the Clarke County Treasurer. She had also served on the Iowa Public Employees Retirement System board. She is married and has three adult children. Reynolds is a recovering alcoholic who has been convicted twice of driving under the influence of alcohol. The most recent was in 2000.
Reynolds last sat on these committees in the Iowa Senate:
wn.com/Kim_Reynolds -
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Kimberly Guilfoyle is an American cable news personality and is currently one of the rotating co-hosts on The Five on Fox News Channel at 5 pm ET, as well as the host of an Internet-only crime-related program for Fox News. She is a contributor to The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity, and frequently appears on the late-night satire program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. She was previously an anchor at Court TV and a legal analyst/commentator for CNN and ABC. She is the ex-wife of California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom and was first lady of San Francisco during Newsom's mayoralty of that city.
Guilfoyle graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Davis, and received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of San Francisco Law School in 1994. While in school, she worked as a Macy's catalog model and as an underwear model for Victoria's Secret. After law school, she briefly worked as a prosecutor in San Francisco, but lost her job in 1996 when Terence Hallinan was elected District Attorney and fired 14 of the city's prosecutors.
wn.com/Kimberly_Guilfoyle -
Levi Richard Ellert
Levi Richard Ellert (October 20, 1857 – July 21, 1901) served as 23rd mayor of San Francisco from 1893 to 1895. He was the first San Francisco native to serve in that office. No previous San Francisco mayors had even been born in California.
Before entering politics, he had established his own pharmacy in 1883. After unsuccessfully running for School Director, he was elected Supervisor as a Republican in 1888, and was reelected in 1890. He was elected mayor in 1892, and during his term, he passed the bar exam and was admitted to the California bar. He also "appeared before the Supreme Court."
After his term he would serve as director of various private companies and as general manager and the president of the Sanitary Reduction Works.
He died in 1901 in San Francisco.
Hanson, Gladys. San Francisco Almanac. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1995. (ISBN 0-8118-0841-6)
wn.com/Levi_Richard_Ellert -
Mark Darr
Mark A. Darr (born July 3, 1973) is the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected to succeed Democrat Bill Halter in 2010, having defeated Democratic challenger State Senator and former House Speaker Shane Broadway by a margin of 51 to 49 percent.
Mark Darr was born in 1973 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He is a graduate of Mansfield High School in Mansfield, Arkansas, and Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Mark Darr was elected Lieutenant Governor on November 2, 2010. He is the youngest person to win a statewide race as a Republican in Arkansas. Prior to the election, he had never run for public office. On November 2, 2010, in the closest constitutional race, Darr defeated state senator (and former Arkansas House Speaker Shane Broadway. Darr campaigned on the notion that he could file suit against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which would be the duty of the attorney general. Darr promised to reduce wasteful spending, restore trust in government, and to establish a check and balance between the voter and those elected to office. In his first session the Arkansas Transparency Act was signed into law. The "online checkbook" as it is known will be up and running on July 1, 2012.
wn.com/Mark_Darr -
Matt Gonzalez
Matthew Edward Gonzalez (born June 4, 1965) is an American politician, lawyer, and activist prominent in San Francisco politics. He currently serves as chief attorney in the San Francisco Public Defender's office.
Gonzalez was a member and president of San Francisco County's Board of Supervisors. He was also one of the first Green Party candidates elected to public office in the San Francisco Bay area. In 2003, Gonzalez ran for mayor of San Francisco but lost in a close race to Democrat Gavin Newsom. In the 2008 presidential election, Gonzalez ran for vice president as the running mate of candidate Ralph Nader.
Matthew Edward Gonzalez was born in McAllen, Texas, to a Mexican mother, Oralia, and Mexican-American father, Mateo. Gonzalez spent his first four years in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Gonzalez family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana; Baltimore, Maryland; and Louisville, Kentucky, before the family returned to McAllen when Gonzalez was 11 years old.
In an interview with the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle, Gonzalez described his father as a salesman who initially started out selling "cigarettes from the back of his car in south Texas" in the late 1950s or early 1960s, and later started an import/export business selling medical and dental supplies. A profile in the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Gonzalez's father was a division chief for the international tobacco company Brown & Williamson.
wn.com/Matt_Gonzalez -
Matt Michels
Matt Michels is the 38th and current Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota and formerly the Speaker of the South Dakota House of Representatives. He and running mate Dennis Daugaard were elected in the general election on November 2, 2010. Michels is a Republican.
wn.com/Matt_Michels -
Maurice Carey Blake
Maurice Carey Blake (October 20, 1815 – September 26, 1897) was the 19th Mayor of San Francisco, serving from December 5, 1881 to January 7, 1883.
Maurice C. Blake was born on October 20, 1815 in Otisville, Maine. He became a lawyer in California and practiced law there. In 1857, he became a member of the California State Assembly and served until 1858. After this he became the Mayor of San Francisco and served for only two years. Just one year after leaving office, he became a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884. Maurice C. Blake died of a heart attack in San Francisco on September 26, 1897. He is interred at Mount Tamalpais Cemetery in San Rafael, California.
wn.com/Maurice_Carey_Blake -
Max Maxfield
Max Maxfield (born February 17, 1945) is the 20th Secretary of State for the U.S. state of Wyoming. First taking office in 2007, Maxfield won re-election in 2010, and beforehand was the state's 18th state auditor from 1999 to 2007. With Wyoming having no distinct post of lieutenant governor, under the terms of the state's constitution he is first in the line of succession to be Governor of Wyoming. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Born in Beloit, Wisconsin to Ralph and Vera, Maxfield graduated from Janesville High School in 1963. That year until 1964, he was studying at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point before staying at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater until 1966. From 1968 to 1972, he worked and lived in Wisconsin and Michigan before moving to Wyoming. Maxfield served 23 years as an executive director for YMCA and over a year as the leader of the Wyoming branch of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. In addition, Maxfield led the Wyoming Recreation Commission from 1987 to 1989, and the Wyoming Department of Commerce from 1989 to 1994.
wn.com/Max_Maxfield -
Mead Treadwell
Mead Treadwell is the 13th and current Lieutenant Governor of Alaska and former Chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.
Treadwell was appointed to the Commission in 2001, and was appointed by President George W. Bush to Chair in 2006.
Treadwell has been called to testify before the United States Congress on several occasions.
On August 20, 2009, he was called before the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, when it made a field trip to Alaska. During his testimony Treadwell warned that the recently announced moratorium on commercial fishing of the Beaufort Sea would fail if it were not matched by similar moratoriums by Canada and Russia.
In May 2010, Treadwell announced his intent to run for Lt. Governor of Alaska. He gave his primary reasons for running as frustration with an overbearing federal government, concern for the flagging Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and a need to diversify Alaska's economy through international trade. Treadwell won the August 24, 2010 Republican primary election with approximately 53% of the vote, a margin of more than 22% over his closest opponent. Following his primary campaign victory, Treadwell's campaign joined with that of incumbent Republican Governor Sean Parnell.
wn.com/Mead_Treadwell -
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman and politician who is currently Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $22 billion in 2012, he is also the 11th-richest person in the United States. He is the founder and 88% owner of Bloomberg L.P., a financial data-services firm.
A Democrat before seeking elective office, Bloomberg switched his registration in 2001 and ran for mayor as a Republican, winning the election that year and a second term in 2005. Bloomberg left the Republican Party over policy and philosophical disagreements with national party leadership in 2007 and ran for his third term in 2009 as an independent candidate on the Republican ballot line. He was frequently mentioned as a possible independent candidate for the 2008 presidential election, which fueled further speculation when he left the Republican Party. There was also speculation that he would run as a vice-presidential candidate. Bloomberg did not, however, seek the presidency nor was he selected as a running mate by any of the presidential candidates.
wn.com/Michael_Bloomberg -
Mike Curb
Michael Curb (born December 24, 1944, in Savannah, Georgia) is an American musician, record company executive, NASCAR and IRL race car owner. A Republican, he served as the 42nd Lieutenant Governor of California from 1979-1983 under Democratic Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr. He was acting governor of California while Brown spent time outside of California pursuing presidential ambitions. He is also the founder of Curb Records as well as an inductee of the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame .
Curb is of Mexican heritage.
As a freshman at San Fernando Valley State College, (now California State University at Northridge), while working in the practice rooms of the Department of Music, Curb wrote the song "You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda (Go Little Honda)" which the company selected for its ad campaign. Dropping out of college in 1963 at the age of 19, Curb formed first record company, Sidewalk Records (a predecessor of Curb Records) launched the careers of West Coast rock and roll artists such as the Stone Poneys (featuring Linda Ronstadt), The Arrows (featuring Davie Allan) and the Electric Flag (featuring Mike Bloomfield and Buddy Miles).
wn.com/Mike_Curb -
Ming Chin
Ming William Chin (born August 31, 1942) (陳惠明) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. He was appointed to the California Supreme Court by Governor Pete Wilson on January 25, 1996, and confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments and sworn in on March 1, 1996. He was retained by the electorate in November 1998, with 69.3% percent of the vote.
In 1969, Chin was awarded an United States Army Commendation Medal and a Bronze Star for his service in the Vietnam War.
He authored the most majority opinions at the Supreme Court during 1997, his first full term.
He is well-known among California employment lawyers as one of the four current authors of the Rutter Group practice guide on employment litigation.
In 2008, Chin was part of the dissenting minority in In re Marriage Cases, a 4-3 decision legalizing same-sex marriage in California.
wn.com/Ming_Chin -
Mona Pasquil
Simeona Fortunata "Mona" Pasquil (born April 3, 1962) is an American politician who served as the 47th (acting) Lieutenant Governor of California from November 4, 2009 to April 27, 2010.
On November 3, 2009, California Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi was elected to the United States House of Representatives representing California's 10th congressional district, leaving the office of lieutenant governor vacant. On November 4, 2009, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Pasquil, Garamendi's Chief of Staff, as acting lieutenant governor pending the confirmation of Abel Maldonado.
Pasquil's appointment marked several firsts for the position: she became California's first Asian lieutenant governor; its first Filipino lieutenant governor; its first female lieutenant governor; and the first California acting lieutenant governor not to succeed to the position from the President pro tempore of the California State Senate.
Pasquil served as John Kerry's political director during his 2004 campaign for the United States presidency.
wn.com/Mona_Pasquil -
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi ( /pəˈloʊsi/; born March 26, 1940) is the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and served as the 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. She was the first woman to hold the office and to date, has been the highest-ranking female politician in American history.
A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi has represented California's 8th congressional district, which consists of four-fifths of the city and county of San Francisco, since 1987. The district was numbered as the 5th during Pelosi's first three terms in the House. She served as the House Minority Whip from 2002 to 2003, and was House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007, holding the post during the 108th and 109th Congresses. Pelosi is the first woman, the first Californian and first Italian-American to lead a major party in Congress. After the Democrats took control of the House in 2007 and increased their majority in 2009, Pelosi was elected Speaker of the House for the 110th and 111th Congresses.
wn.com/Nancy_Pelosi -
Nancy Wyman
Nancy S. Wyman (born 1946) is the 108th and current Lieutenant Governor of the state of Connecticut. Previously, she was the first woman elected State Comptroller of Connecticut since the office was created in 1786, serving in the position from 1995 to 2011.
Wyman grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where her father worked as an accountant and supplemented his income by delivering the New York Daily News. She earned an associate degree in radiological technology from Long Island College Hospital.
Wyman began her career in public service as vice chairperson of the Tolland Board of Education. She served in this post for four years, but was on the board serving in other roles for five additional years. In 1986, she was elected as the State Representative from the 53rd district of Connecticut, serving in this capacity from 1987–1995.
In 1994, Wyman became State Comptroller upon defeating Republican Gene Gavin, a Certified Public Accountant. She succeeded William E. Curry, Jr., who did not run for re-election in order to run for governor.
wn.com/Nancy_Wyman -
Pablo de la Guerra
Pablo de la Guerra (November 29, 1819 – February 5, 1874), from the de la Guerra family of Santa Barbara, California, was the Acting Lieutenant Governor of California, 1861-1862. He served in the California State Senate 2nd District.
wn.com/Pablo_de_la_Guerra -
Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald “Pat” Brown, Sr. (April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996) was the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967, and the father of current Governor of California Jerry Brown.
Brown was born in San Francisco, California, one of four children of Edmund and Ida Schuckman Brown. His father was an Irish Catholic, his mother a German Protestant. He acquired the nickname "Pat" during his school years; the nickname was a reference to his Patrick Henry-like oratory. When he was 12 and selling Liberty Bonds on street corners, he would end his spiel with, "Give me liberty, or give me death."
He was a debate champion as a member of the Lowell Forensic Society at San Francisco's Lowell High School, from which he graduated in 1923. Brown skipped college and worked in his father's cigar store while studying law at a local night school. He graduated from San Francisco College of Law in spring 1927, passed the California bar exam the following fall, and started a law practice in San Francisco.
Brown ran as a Republican for the State Assembly in 1928, but lost; he joined the Democratic Party in 1932. He waited until 1939 to seek public office again, this time running for District Attorney of San Francisco, a race he lost to Matthew Brady.
wn.com/Pat_Brown -
Peter Bragdon
Peter Bragdon is a Republican member of the New Hampshire Senate, representing the 11th District since 2004. Previously he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2000 until 2002. Bragdon become the new President of the New Hampshire State Senate when it convened on December 1, 2010.
Bragdon was owner and publisher of The Milford Observer.
Bragdon holds a bachelor's degree in math and computer science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
wn.com/Peter_Bragdon -
Peter Kinder
Peter D. Kinder (born May 12, 1954 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Missouri. Kinder is a member of the Republican Party. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of Missouri in 2004 as Matt Blunt was elected Governor. Kinder was reelected in 2008 at the same time Jay Nixon was elected Governor. Kinder was the only Republican in Missouri to win statewide office in 2008, as all other Republicans running for each of the other statewide offices suffered defeat. Despite the overwhelmingly poor election year for Republicans, Kinder carried 102 of Missouri's 114 counties. He was considered the front runner in the 2012 Republican gubernatorial primary, but instead decided to run for re-election as Lt. Governor after St. Louis businessman and multimillionaire Dave Spence unexpectedly declared to run for Governor and pledged to put much of his own money into the race.
Kinder was born and raised in Cape Girardeau, the son of pediatrician James A. Kinder Jr. and Mary Frances Hunter Kinder. He attended Cape Girardeau Public Schools and then attended Southeast Missouri State University and the University of Missouri in Columbia. He graduated from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas in 1979 and was admitted to the Missouri Bar in 1980.
wn.com/Peter_Kinder -
Phil Angelides
Phillip Nicholas "Phil" Angelides ( /ˌændʒɨˈliːdɨs/ AN-jə-LEE-dees; born June 12, 1953) is an American politician who was California State Treasurer and the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Governor of California in the 2006 elections. Angelides currently serves as the Chair of the Apollo Alliance and of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Angelides was born in Sacramento, California, to Helen (née Papadopoulos) and Jerry Angelides, Greek immigrants. Growing up, Phil and his brother Kimon were encouraged by their father to learn about geography and the United States government. Their father would quiz them weekly on these topics.
Angelides was educated at The Thacher School in Ojai, California and graduated from Harvard University in 1974, majoring in government as a Coro Foundation Fellow.
Angelides and his wife, Julie, reside in Land Park with their three now grown-up daughters, Megan, Christina, and Arianna. His eldest daughter, Megan Garcia-Angelides, was the campus coordinator for his 2006 campaign.
wn.com/Phil_Angelides -
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader (
/ˈneɪdər/; born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government.
Nader came to prominence in 1965 with the publication of his book Unsafe at Any Speed, a critique of the safety record of American automobile manufacturers in general, and most famously the Chevrolet Corvair. In 1999, an NYU panel of journalists ranked Unsafe at Any Speed 38th among the top 100 pieces of journalism of the 20th century.
Nader is a six-time candidate for President of the United States, having run as a write-in candidate in the 1992 New Hampshire Democratic primary, as the Green Party nominee in 1996 and 2000, and as an independent candidate in 2004 and 2008. Some people claim that Nader acted as a spoiler in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, while others, including Nader, dispute this claim.
Nader was born in Winsted, Connecticut. His parents, Nathra and Rose (née Bouziane) Nader, were immigrants from Lebanon and members of the Maronite Church. His family's native language is Arabic, and he has spoken it along with English since childhood. His sister, Laura Nader, is an anthropologist. His father worked in a textile mill and later owned a bakery and restaurant where he talked politics with his customers.
wn.com/Ralph_Nader -
Ray Tenorio
Raymond "Ray" Tenorio (born 1965) is a Guamanian Republican politician and former police officer. Tenorio has served as a Senator in the Legislature of Guam since January 2003. He took office as the 9th Lieutenant Governor of Guam on January 3, 2011, having won the gubernatorial election in November 2010 with now Governor Eddie Calvo.
Tenorio was born Raymond Waddey Jr. in 1965 in Orlando, Florida. He was raised in Orlando by his birth father until he was sent to live in a foster home. His mother, Helen V. Eubank, located Ray at a foster home in Tennessee. She took Ray with her to Guam when he was approximately ten years old. Eubank then adopted the surname of her new husband, Tenorio, after they arrived in Guam. Ray's stepfather, Romeo Mantanona Tenorio, a police officer, enrolled Ray in middle school under the name Ray Tenorio. In 2010, Tenorio explained that from that point he used Tenorio as his surname, and he did not realize that his legal surname was still Waddey until he applied for a U.S. passport to visit Japan twenty years after middle school. In 1997, Ray had his surname legally changed from Waddey to Tenorio.
wn.com/Ray_Tenorio -
Rebecca Kleefisch
Rebecca Kleefisch (born August 7, 1975) is a former television news anchor, turned American politician, and is currently serving as the 44th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin. She was elected to the position on November 2, 2010, as the running mate of Republican Governor Scott Walker. She and Walker are the subjects of a recall election scheduled to take place on June 5, 2012.
Rebecca Reed was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was a reporter for WIFR-TV in Rockford, Illinois, and then was a reporter and later morning anchor for WISN-TV in Milwaukee, before leaving in 2004. Kleefisch formed her own company, Rebecca Kleefisch Enterprises, Inc. and was a contributor to Charlie Sykes' program on WTMJ Radio in Milwaukee.
Kleefisch's first attempt at politics began when she ran for Lieutenant Governor in 2010. She declared her candidacy live via webcam from her kitchen table, expressing concern for the future of her children and touting her "kitchen table common sense."
wn.com/Rebecca_Kleefisch -
Rick Sheehy
Rick Sheehy (born October 3, 1959 in Hastings, Nebraska) has been the 38th Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska, since 2005.
Appointed by Governor Dave Heineman on January 24, 2005, after Heineman became Governor upon Mike Johanns' appointment as United States Secretary of Agriculture in the Cabinet of President George W. Bush.
Sheehy is a native of Hastings, Nebraska. He graduated from St. Cecilia High School and attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Central Community College. In 1982, Sheehy began work as an emergency medical technician for Rural Metro Ambulance in Hastings, Nebraska. He had been a market general manager with Rural Metro for 18 years when he was appointed Lieutenant Governor.
Sheehy served on the Hastings City Council from 1994–2000, serving as council president from 1996–2000. In 2000 Sheehy, then a Democrat, was elected Mayor of Hastings, a non-partisan office. He became a Republican in August 2003, and was reelected as Mayor in 2004. He was serving in his second term as mayor when he was appointed Lieutenant Governor. He was Heineman's running mate in 2006, winning a full term as Lieutenant Governor, and was elected to a second term in 2010.
wn.com/Rick_Sheehy -
Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork & Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. He has also won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Grammy Awards.
Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Laura McLaurin (née Smith, 1922–2001), was a former model from New Orleans, Louisiana. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams (September 10, 1906 – October 18, 1987), was a senior executive at Ford Motor Company in charge of the Midwest region. His maternal great-great-grandfather was senator and Mississippi governor Anselm J. McLaurin. Williams is of English, Welsh, Irish, and French ancestry. He was raised in the Episcopal Church (his mother practiced Christian Science). He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he was a student at the Detroit Country Day School, and later moved to Woodacre, Marin County, California, where he attended the public Redwood High School. Williams studied at Claremont McKenna College (then called Claremont Men's College) for four years. He has two half-brothers: Todd (who died August 14, 2007) and McLaurin.
wn.com/Robin_Williams -
Roger Lapham
Roger Dearborn Lapham (December 6, 1883 – April 16, 1966) was a shipowner and businessman who served as the 32nd mayor of San Francisco from 1944 to 1948.
Lapham was born in New York City, the son of Antoinette N. (née Dearborn) and businessman Lewis Henry Lapham. He was educated at Harvard, a member of the Pacific Union Club and president of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company beginning in 1925. Lapham championed the employers' position in the 1936 waterfront strike and was elevated as a "business" Mayor by a member of the Police Commission, J. Ward Maillard, after collapse of the Angelo Rossi constituency. Upon taking the mayor's seat, Lapham declared his intention to serve only one term. According to Radebaugh, Lapham was "so convinced of the employers' cause that he took on Harry Bridges, leader of the striking (C.I.O.) Congress of Industrial Organizations longshoremen, in public debate."
During World War II, Lapham was the industry representative on the National War Labor Board, but resigned to run for mayor of San Francisco.
wn.com/Roger_Lapham -
Romualdo Pacheco
José Antonio Romualdo Pacheco, Jr. (October 31, 1831 – January 23, 1899) was an American politician and diplomat. Involved in California state and federal politics, Pacheco was elected and appointed to various posts and offices throughout his more than thirty-year career, including the California State Senate, the 12th governor of California, and three terms in the United States House of Representatives. Pacheco remains the only Hispanic or Latino governor in the state's history as part of the U.S. He was also the state's first California-born governor. 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. He was the first Hispanic Representative from a U.S. state; several others had previously served as delegates for U.S. territories and as such did not have full voting privileges.
José Antonio Romualdo Pacheco, Jr. was born in Santa Barbara, California to a prominent Alta California family. His father, Captain José Antonio Romualdo Pacheco, had moved to California from Guanajuato, Mexico in 1825, and served as an aide to Governor José María de Echeandía. Captain Pacheco was killed at the Battle of Cahuenga Pass in 1831, when the young Romualdo was just five weeks old. His mother, Maria Ramona Carrillo de Pacheco, was a sister-in-law of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, and a daughter of Maria Ygnacia Lopez de Carrillo, the grantee of Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa. After the death of his father, Romualdo's mother married Captain John D. Wilson, a Scotsman, who sent Pacheco to Honolulu, Hawaii for his education.
wn.com/Romualdo_Pacheco -
Ron Pelosi
Ronald Virgil Pelosi, known as Ron Pelosi, (born 1934) is an American businessman and public figure in San Francisco, California.
Pelosi was born in San Francisco in an Italian-American family on November 2, 1934, and was reared in that city. He has a brother, Paul. He earned a bachelor's degree in American history from Stanford University in 1956, the same year he was married to Barbara Newsom in 1956; they were divorced in 1977. He was remarried in 1979, to Susan Ferguson. His children were Carolyn and Cynthia (died 1970), Brennan, Matt Pelosi, Laurence (born 1971) and Andrew (born 1981).
He is the brother-in-law of Nancy Pelosi, minority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives and its former Speaker. He is the uncle of California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom.
Pelosi engaged in the securities industry with Hambrecht & Quist, Dean Witter & Co. and was a partner in Korn Ferry International, an executive search firm and president of the Longwood Company, a member firm of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
wn.com/Ron_Pelosi -
Ron Ramsey
Ronald Lynn "Ron" Ramsey (born November 20, 1955) is the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee and Speaker of the State Senate. A Republican from Blountville in East Tennessee, Ramsey succeeded long-term Democratic Lieutenant Governor John S. Wilder in 2007, who had held the office of Lieutenant Governor since 1971.
Tennesseans do not elect their lieutenant governor; rather, the Speaker of the Senate, who is second in the line of succession to the governor, is granted the title by statute.
Ramsey graduated from Sullivan Central High School in 1973, and later obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in 1978, majoring in Industrial Technology at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City. He is a member of the advisory board of the Farm Credit Association, a former president of the Blountville Business Association, and a former president and current member of the Bristol TN-VA Association of Realtors. He currently works as a real estate broker and an auctioneer.
Ramsey represents Senate District 2, which encompasses Johnson and Sullivan counties in East Tennessee.
wn.com/Ron_Ramsey -
Ross Mirkarimi
Ross Mirkarimi (born August 4, 1961) is the (currently suspended) sheriff of San Francisco. From 2005 to 2012, he served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District 5. Mirkarimi is a co-founder of the Green Party of California, but in March 2010, became a Democrat.
As Supervisor, Mirkarimi garnered national attention when he introduced the first legislation prohibiting the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags by large supermarkets and drugstores in 2007, making San Francisco the first city to do so. Later, other cities around the US and the world took up similar bans.
Mirkarimi served on the California Coastal Commission from 2009 to 2011. In 2006, he was awarded the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws' (NORML) Rufus King award, given annually for leadership in the reform of marijuana laws.
On January 13, 2012, Mirkarimi was charged with domestic violence battery, child endangerment, and dissuading a witness in connection with a New Year's Eve altercation he had with his wife. While jury selection was underway, Mirkarimi entered into a plea agreement with the district attorney, pleading guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment. On March 20, 2012, Mayor Ed Lee suspended Mirkarimi pending an ethics investigation and appointed Vicki Hennessy (no relation to former Sheriff Mike Hennessey) as Acting Sheriff.
wn.com/Ross_Mirkarimi -
Samuel Purdy
Samuel Purdy (1819 – February 17, 1882) was the third Lieutenant Governor of California, 1852-1856. He ran for office as a Democrat. He also became the first mayor of Stockton, California, in 1851.
wn.com/Samuel_Purdy -
Sheila Simon
Sheila J. Simon (born March 13, 1961) is an American politician and educator who is the 46th and current Lieutenant Governor of the state of Illinois. She was a Professor of Law at the Southern Illinois University School of Law. Simon is the daughter of former U.S. Senator Paul Simon, who served as Lieutenant Governor of Illinois as well, and his first wife, Illinois State Representative Jeanne Hurley Simon.
Sheila Simon received a B.A. in 1983 from Wittenberg University and a J.D. in 1987 from Georgetown Law School. Following law school, she worked as a staff attorney at a legal aid clinic, the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation from 1987 to 1992, providing legal services to indigent clients. She was an Associate at the firm of O'Neill & Colvin in Carbondale, Illinois from 1992 to 1994 and then served as an Assistant State's Attorney in Jackson County, Illinois from 1994 to 1998, where she prosecuted DUIs and domestic battery cases. Along with several other attorneys and with the support of school faculty, Simon helped to inaugurate Southern Illinois University's law school domestic violence clinic in 1998. She worked as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law from 2000 to 2005 and was promoted to Clinical Associate Professor in 2005. She taught both Lawyering Skills and Family Law in addition to her clinical teaching.
wn.com/Sheila_Simon -
Sheridan Downey
Sheridan Downey (March 11, 1884 – October 25, 1961) was a lawyer and a Democratic U.S. Senator from California from 1939 to 1950.
He was born in Laramie, the seat of Albany County in southern Wyoming, the son of the former Evangeline Victoria Owen and Stephen Wheeler Downey. He was educated in public schools and graduated from the University of Wyoming in Laramie in 1907, and from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor. He subsequently returned to Laramie to practice law, and in 1908 he was elected district attorney of Albany County as a Republican. In 1910 he married Helen Symons; they had five children. In 1912, Downey split Wyoming's Republican vote by heading the state's "Bull Moose" revolt in support of Theodore Roosevelt, thus leading to a Democratic victory statewide.
In 1913, Downey moved to Sacramento, California, and continued to practice law with his brother, Stephen Wheeler Downey, Jr. During his first few years in California, he devoted most of his time and energy to his law practice and various real estate interests. In 1924 he supported Robert La Follette, Sr.'s Progressive party campaign for the presidency, and in 1932 he became a Democrat and campaigned for the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
wn.com/Sheridan_Downey -
Stephen Palfrey Webb
Stephen Palfrey Webb (March 20, 1804 – September 29, 1879) was third and twelfth Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts serving (1842–1845, 1860–1862) and the sixth Mayor of San Francisco (1854–1855).
Webb was born to Stephen and Sara (Putnam) Palfrey Webb in Salem, Massachusetts on March 20, 1804. Webb graduated from Harvard College in 1824. Webb studied law with Hon. John Glen King. Webb was admitted to the Essex County Bar and began his practice of law in Salem.
On May 26, 1834, Webb married Hannah Hunt Beckford Robinson.
Webb served in the Massachusetts Legislature, first in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and then in the Massachusetts Senate. He was then elected mayor of Salem, serving three years in his first time in that office.
He moved in to San Francisco in approximately 1853, was elected as Mayor with backing from the Know Nothing movement in 1854 where, he witnessed the violent mobs that ran through the city following the Gold Rush. He would prepare a report about these mobs (known as vigilance committees) in 1874.
wn.com/Stephen_Palfrey_Webb -
Tate Reeves
Jonathon Tate Reeves (born June 5, 1974), a Republican, is the 32nd and current Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi. Reeves was earlier elected as Mississippi’s 33rd Treasurer on November 4, 2003 and re-elected to a second term in 2007. He is the first Republican treasurer in the state’s history. Reeves holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation (CFA) and is a member of the CFA Society of Mississippi and the CFA Institute, an investment industry organization. In 1996, he was the recipient of the Mississippi Society of Financial Analysts Award.[citation needed]
Reeves is a Rankin County native and a graduate of Florence High School. He is an honors graduate of Millsaps College and earned a bachelor’s degree in economics. While at Millsaps, he played point guard for the Millsaps Majors basketball team and was a member of Kappa Alpha Order. Reeves has continued to be an active alumnus and remains involved with his alma mater by serving as a member of the investment policy board for the Millsaps College General Louis Wilson Fund and a member the Advisory Committee of the Else School of Management. He was born June 5, 1974 and is of Irish and English descent.
wn.com/Tate_Reeves -
Thomas Addis
Thomas Addis (July 27, 1881 – June 4, 1949) was a physician-scientist who made important contributions to the understanding of how blood clots. He was a pioneer in the field of nephrology, the branch of internal medicine that deals with diseases of the kidney. Addis was the first to demonstrate that normal plasma could correct the defect in haemophilia.
Thomas Chalmers Addis Jr. was the son of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Chalmers Addis, a Presbyterian minister, and Cornelia Beers-Campbell, who married in Hoboken, New York, in 1880, but he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Addis studied medicine in his native Edinburgh, at the Institute of Pathology of Berlin Charité, and in Heidelberg. He graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1905, and in 1908 earned a license to practice medicine.
In 1911, he took up a professorship at Stanford University, where he remained until his death in 1949. Addis married Elesa Bolton Partridge in 1913. They had two daughters, Elesa and Jean. By way of his daughter Jean, Addis is the great-grandfather of Gavin Newsom, the Lieutenant Governor of California.
wn.com/Thomas_Addis -
Thomas Henry Selby
Thomas Henry Selby (May 14, 1820 – June 17, 1875) was the 13th Mayor of San Francisco serving from December 6, 1869 to December 3, 1871.
Thomas Henry Selby was born on May 14, 1820 in New York, NY. When he was 29 years old, Selby went to California for the California Gold Rush. He moved to San Francisco, California and became a merchant in the city. Selby built the Selby Shot Tower in San Francisco and founded the Selby Smelting Works. He was then elected mayor and served from December 6, 1869 to December 3, 1871. He died in San Francisco on June 17, 1875 of pneumonia. He is buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland.
Selby's daughter, Jeanie, married Faxon Dean Atherton Jr., a son of Atherton namesake Faxon Dean Atherton.
His daughter Clair married Andrew Jackson Ralston, brother of William Chapman Ralston.
His son, Prentiss, married Nattie Cofin of the Nantucket Cofins.
wn.com/Thomas_Henry_Selby -
Tim Murray
Timothy P. "Tim" Murray (born June 7, 1968) is the 71st and current Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. From 2002 to 2007, Murray served as Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts. He is a Democrat.
Murray was born and raised in Worcester. His father taught high school and his mother worked as a nurse. He attended Worcester public elementary schools, and later went to St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury.
Murray earned his bachelor’s degree at Fordham University. While at Fordham, Murray served as an aide to Bronx Borough President, Fernando Ferrer. He put himself through law school attending classes at night while working days as a substitute school teacher, earning his law degree from the Western New England College School of Law.
He and his wife, Tammy (Sullivan) live in Worcester with their two daughters, Helen and Katerine. Tammy, also born in Worcester, is an occupational therapist who works with children.
wn.com/Tim_Murray -
Tom Torlakson
Thomas A. "Tom" Torlakson (born July 19, 1949) is an American politician from California. In 2010, he was elected to the position of California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the highest education post in California. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
He previously served his three terms in the California State Assembly, representing the 11th district, which consists of northern portions of Contra Costa County. He also served two terms in the California State Senate, representing the 7th district, which consists of most of Contra Costa County.
Torlakson is a second generation San Francisco Bay Area resident and was born in San Francisco on July 19, 1949. His hometown is Daly City. His grandfather worked in San Francisco as a U.S. Coast Guard seaman. Torlakson's father worked as a welder and joining built Liberty cargo ships for World War II. Torlakson's mother worked as a school secretary and in the postal service. He is of Icelandic heritage as his name reveals.
Torlakson worked as a Merchant Marine during the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1970. He served in Guam, Vietnam, Thailand and later on Chevron oil tankers to Alaska. It was his first union job. In 1968, he earned the Merchant Marines Vietnam Service Medal.
wn.com/Tom_Torlakson -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was an American author and one-time candidate for governor of California who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle (1906). It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence."
Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Upton Beall Sinclair and Priscilla Harden. His father was a liquor salesman whose alcoholism shadowed his son's childhood. Priscilla Harden Sinclair was a strict Episcopalian who disliked alcohol, tea, and coffee. Her lineage was of great affluence. Her parents were very prosperous in Baltimore and her sister married a millionaire. Sinclair had wealthy grandparents with whom he often stayed. This gave him insight into how both the rich and the poor lived during the late nineteenth century. Living in two social settings affected him and greatly influenced his books. Upton Beall Sinclair Sr. was also from a highly respected family in the south, but due to the Civil War and Reconstruction, the family's wealth evaporated and the family became ruined.
wn.com/Upton_Sinclair -
Washington Bartlett
Washington Montgomery Bartlett (February 29, 1824 – September 12, 1887) was the 20th mayor of San Francisco, California from 1883 to 1887 and was the first and–to date–only Jewish governor of California.
Bartlett was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1824, the son of Sarah E. Melhado and Cosam Emir Bartlett. His mother was Sephardic. He was a life-long bachelor and a printer by trade, and was not particularly religious. During his lifetime Bartlett was a San Francisco newspaper publisher, San Francisco County Clerk, lawyer, state senator, mayor, and finally a governor.
Bartlett's term as governor started and ended in 1887 when he died in office of Bright's disease nine months into his term. His inaugural address after being elected as governor was presented on 8 January 1887.
Bartlett is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.
Washington Bartlett's tomb at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.
wn.com/Washington_Bartlett -
Wikipedia Persondata
wn.com/Wikipedia_Persondata -
William Alvord
William Alvord (January 3, 1833 – December 21, 1904) was a San Francisco merchant, banker and political leader. He was the 14th Mayor of San Francisco from 1871 to 1873 and served as president of the Bank of California from 1878 until his death.
Alvord was born on January 3, 1833 in Albany, NY, the son of William and Mary Elizabeth Alvord. He was educated at Albany Academy. He moved to New York City in 1850 and engaged in the hardware trade. In 1853 he went to California and established his business at Marysville, later moving to San Francisco.
In San Francisco he established a wholesale hardware importing business, later forming a partnership with Richard Patrick. Alvord built up an extensive trade, but close application to business wore down his health. He finally sold his share to Patrick and went to Europe to recover his health.
Upon his return in 1871 he was nominated for Mayor of San Francisco on the Republican ticket. Alvord was elected by a handsome margin, serving from December 4, 1871 to November 30, 1873. A portrait of Alvord by Benoni Irwin, circa 1872, is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
wn.com/William_Alvord -
William Newsom
William Alfred Newsom III (born February 15, 1934) is a retired state appeals court judge, administrator of the Getty family trust, and the father of former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
A lifelong San Franciscan, Newsom has longstanding political and financial ties. His father, also named William Newsom, was a close friend of Pat Brown, who rose from San Francisco district attorney to governor of California. He remains friends with Pat Brown’s son, California Attorney General, former Oakland Mayor and current California Governor Jerry Brown. Newsom's late sister Barbara was once married to Ron Pelosi, brother-in-law of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He is also a close friend of Gordon Getty, son of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, whom he met in the late 1940s while attending St. Ignatius Catholic prep school in San Francisco.
Newsom went to University of San Francisco, followed by Stanford Law School and was admitted to the California Bar in 1962. He worked as legal adviser to the Italian division of Getty Oil and then as a tax attorney for the Getty family. In 1967, he married Tessa Menzies, and had two children before divorcing after five years.
wn.com/William_Newsom -
William Stephens
William Dennison Stephens (December 26, 1859 – April 25, 1944) was an American federal and state politician. A three-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1916, Stephens was the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
William Stephens was born in Eaton, Ohio on December 26, 1859. He was the third child out of a total of nine children born to Martin and Alvira Stephens. With ambitions to become a lawyer, Stephens studied earnestly in law to become a lawyer, yet family fortunes required all of his earnings to go to his family instead.
Following his graduation from Eaton High School in 1876, Stephens worked for three years as a school teacher before joining the railroad business to become an engineer. Between 1880 and 1887, Stephens helped survey the construction of railroads in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Louisiana. His days in the railroads came to an end in 1887 when his mother, Alvira, now falling ill, sought a hot and drier climate to improve her health. The Stephens family, including William, relocated to Los Angeles, California that year, though Alvira would be dead within a year.
wn.com/William_Stephens
Newsom, Gavin Filmography
- The D Word: Understanding Dyslexia (2012)
- Disconnect: Cell Phones & Cancer (2012)
- The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia (2012)
- Illegal Love (2011)
- Miss Representation (2011)
- Revenge of the Electric Car (2011)
- The Economics of Happiness (2011)
- 8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)
- The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special: In 3-D! On Ice! (2010)
- Miss Representation (2009)
- Annul Victory (2009)
- 'Hick' Town (2009)
- America's Choice (2008)
- ...So Goes the Nation (2006)
- Pursuit of Equality (2005)
Send this Playlist by SMS
Email this Page
Gavin Newsom discusses California's fiscal situation on CNBC
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:40
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
Gavin Newsom is the Lt. Governor of California and former mayor of San Francisco. Shot live in San Francisco, CA. at Beyond Pix Studios. www.beyondpix.com May 15, 2012
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_discusses_California's_fiscal_situation_on_CNBC
Gavin Newsom is the Lt. Governor of California and former mayor of San Francisco. Shot live in San Francisco, CA. at Beyond Pix Studios. www.beyondpix.com May 15, 2012
Gavin Newsom: Don't Overlook Arts Education
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:46
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
Complete video at: fora.tv California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom emphasizes the importance of including arts and creativity in a science, technology, engineering and mathematics educational foundation. Urging educators not to let lack of money be an excuse, Newsom asks, "What would you do if you knew you could not fail?" ----- The California STEM Learning Network and the Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson are proud to host the second annual California STEM Summit presented by Chevron. Join education, policy and business leaders from throughout California to: Learn about critical issues related to advancing STEM education Help move forward key STEM initiatives and programs in California Foster new collaborations that strengthen in-school and out-of-school STEM teaching and learning in K-14 education Gavin Newsom was elected as the 49th Lieutenant Governor of the State of California on November 2, 2010. His top priorities are economic development and job creation, improving access to higher education, and maintaining California's environmental leadership. Prior to being elected Lieutenant Governor, he served two-terms as Mayor of San Francisco. Under his leadership, the economy grew and jobs were created. The City became a center for biotech and clean tech. He initiated a plan to bring universal health care to all of the City's uninsured residents. And Newsom aggressively pursued local solutions to global climate change. In the final days of his second term ...
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_Don't_Overlook_Arts_Education
Complete video at: fora.tv California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom emphasizes the importance of including arts and creativity in a science, technology, engineering and mathematics educational foundation. Urging educators not to let lack of money be an excuse, Newsom asks, "What would you do if you knew you could not fail?" ----- The California STEM Learning Network and the Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson are proud to host the second annual California STEM Summit presented by Chevron. Join education, policy and business leaders from throughout California to: Learn about critical issues related to advancing STEM education Help move forward key STEM initiatives and programs in California Foster new collaborations that strengthen in-school and out-of-school STEM teaching and learning in K-14 education Gavin Newsom was elected as the 49th Lieutenant Governor of the State of California on November 2, 2010. His top priorities are economic development and job creation, improving access to higher education, and maintaining California's environmental leadership. Prior to being elected Lieutenant Governor, he served two-terms as Mayor of San Francisco. Under his leadership, the economy grew and jobs were created. The City became a center for biotech and clean tech. He initiated a plan to bring universal health care to all of the City's uninsured residents. And Newsom aggressively pursued local solutions to global climate change. In the final days of his second term ...
- published: 26 Oct 2011
- views: 1721
- author: ForaTv
Gavin Newsom and Arnold Schwarzenegger on Gay marriage
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:56
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling that gay marriage ban was unconstitutional, hear Gavin and Arnold give their points of view
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_and_Arnold_Schwarzenegger_on_Gay_marriage
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling that gay marriage ban was unconstitutional, hear Gavin and Arnold give their points of view
- published: 16 May 2008
- views: 20195
- author: DreamActivistdotOrg
Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom Addresses the CA Dems!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 15:23
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to the delegates to the 2012 CA Democatic Convention on February 11, 2012.
http://wn.com/Lt_Governor_Gavin_Newsom_Addresses_the_CA_Dems!
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to the delegates to the 2012 CA Democatic Convention on February 11, 2012.
- published: 11 Feb 2012
- views: 2390
- author: cademorg
Gavin Newsom (9/8/11)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 63:03
- Updated: 09 Aug 2012
Gavin Newsom: The Man, the Issues and the State of California Lieutenant Governor, California; Former Mayor, San Francisco In conversation with Scott Shafer, Host, "California Report," KQED Now that Newsom has packed up his San Francisco office and moved to Sacramento, he's encountering many new challenges and responsibilities. He began his term with California billions of dollars in debt and facing numerous contentious issues. Come hear Newsom's positions on the most important issues facing California and how he thinks we can get back on track.
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_9_8_11
Gavin Newsom: The Man, the Issues and the State of California Lieutenant Governor, California; Former Mayor, San Francisco In conversation with Scott Shafer, Host, "California Report," KQED Now that Newsom has packed up his San Francisco office and moved to Sacramento, he's encountering many new challenges and responsibilities. He began his term with California billions of dollars in debt and facing numerous contentious issues. Come hear Newsom's positions on the most important issues facing California and how he thinks we can get back on track.
- published: 22 Sep 2011
- views: 759
- author: commonwealthclub
Policy Talks@Google: Gavin Newsom
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 53:05
- Updated: 20 Nov 2012
Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco, visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his views on marriage equality and California Proposition 8. This event took place on October 29, 2008, as part of the Policy Talks@Google series. The youngest San Francisco mayor in over a hundred years, Newsom was elected in 2003. In 2004, the Mayor captured nationwide interest when he granted marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Related links: www.noonprop8.com www.youtube.com
http://wn.com/Policy_Talks@Google_Gavin_Newsom
Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco, visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his views on marriage equality and California Proposition 8. This event took place on October 29, 2008, as part of the Policy Talks@Google series. The youngest San Francisco mayor in over a hundred years, Newsom was elected in 2003. In 2004, the Mayor captured nationwide interest when he granted marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Related links: www.noonprop8.com www.youtube.com
- published: 01 Nov 2008
- views: 9914
- author: AtGoogleTalks
MG Siegler interviews Gavin Newsom
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:14
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
Watch the Hook HD+ vs. Kindle Fire HD 8.9": bit.ly Read about both devices here: tcrn.ch at his Founders Den Office
http://wn.com/MG_Siegler_interviews_Gavin_Newsom
Watch the Hook HD+ vs. Kindle Fire HD 8.9": bit.ly Read about both devices here: tcrn.ch at his Founders Den Office
- published: 17 Feb 2012
- views: 263
- author: techcrunch
8. California Election and Politics
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 88:39
- Updated: 20 Nov 2012
(November 13, 2012) Bruce Cain and Gavin Newsom discuss the future of California politics and what needs to be changed for California to remain a national leader. This course focuses on the fall election in November 2012 with examinations of major topics at stake in the election. The course is designed for all members of the Stanford University community. The course features guest speakers and professors engaging in discussion and debate. Stanford University www.stanford.edu Stanford Continuing Studies www.continuingstudies.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
http://wn.com/8_California_Election_and_Politics
(November 13, 2012) Bruce Cain and Gavin Newsom discuss the future of California politics and what needs to be changed for California to remain a national leader. This course focuses on the fall election in November 2012 with examinations of major topics at stake in the election. The course is designed for all members of the Stanford University community. The course features guest speakers and professors engaging in discussion and debate. Stanford University www.stanford.edu Stanford Continuing Studies www.continuingstudies.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
- published: 17 Nov 2012
- views: 1461
- author: StanfordUniversity
Gavin Newsom & the Man Code
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
San Francisco citizens (and the men of the square table) reflect on Gavin Newsom's betrayal of a good friend. For more coverage, see www.gavinwatch.com
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_the_Man_Code
San Francisco citizens (and the men of the square table) reflect on Gavin Newsom's betrayal of a good friend. For more coverage, see www.gavinwatch.com
- published: 04 Apr 2007
- views: 24203
- author: GavinWatch
Gavin Newsom On Reforming California's Tax System
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:38
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
View the entire video at: www.zocalopublicsquare.org California Lieutenant Government Gavin Newsom calls for a remaking of the state tax system to catch up with changes in the economy. He supports a sales tax for services, but he also thinks larger and more dramatic changes are needed for California in the long run.
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_On_Reforming_California's_Tax_System
View the entire video at: www.zocalopublicsquare.org California Lieutenant Government Gavin Newsom calls for a remaking of the state tax system to catch up with changes in the economy. He supports a sales tax for services, but he also thinks larger and more dramatic changes are needed for California in the long run.
- published: 17 Oct 2012
- views: 222
- author: ZocaloPublicSquare
Gavin Newsom, Mark Zuckerberg on 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt 003
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 15:01
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom,_Mark_Zuckerberg_on_2012_TechCrunch_Disrupt_003
The Future is So Bright- Gavin Newsom
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:52
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
Fastforward reporters spent the summer investigating the future asking the leaders, technologists, architects, designers, and artists about their vision for the vision. Ca Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom spent some time talking about his vision of the future.
http://wn.com/The_Future_is_So_Bright_Gavin_Newsom
Fastforward reporters spent the summer investigating the future asking the leaders, technologists, architects, designers, and artists about their vision for the vision. Ca Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom spent some time talking about his vision of the future.
- published: 12 Oct 2012
- views: 17
- author: FastForwardweb
Citizenville, Gavin Newsom - 9781594204722
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:54
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
By integrating democratic government with cutting-edge American innovation, the lieutenant governor of California charts a bright future for open-source America Citizenville is the story of how ordinary citizens can use new digital tools to dissolve political gridlock and transform American democracy. As social networking and smart phones have changed the way we communicate with one another, these technologies are also changing our relationship with government. View more: bit.ly
http://wn.com/Citizenville,_Gavin_Newsom_9781594204722
By integrating democratic government with cutting-edge American innovation, the lieutenant governor of California charts a bright future for open-source America Citizenville is the story of how ordinary citizens can use new digital tools to dissolve political gridlock and transform American democracy. As social networking and smart phones have changed the way we communicate with one another, these technologies are also changing our relationship with government. View more: bit.ly
- published: 13 Dec 2012
- views: 215
- author: PenguinGroupUSA
Gavin Newsom on Prop. 30 "Just Not True"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:51
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
For more information, visit www.StopProp30.com
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_on_Prop_30_Just_Not_True
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom Essentially Calls Gov. Jerry Brown a Liar on Prop 30
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:12
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom explains how California Governor Jerry Brown is lying about proposition 30. John and Ken show, via Newsom, that Californians will get both a tax increase AS WELL AS tuition hikes.
http://wn.com/Lt_Gov_Gavin_Newsom_Essentially_Calls_Gov_Jerry_Brown_a_Liar_on_Prop_30
Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom explains how California Governor Jerry Brown is lying about proposition 30. John and Ken show, via Newsom, that Californians will get both a tax increase AS WELL AS tuition hikes.
- published: 04 Nov 2012
- views: 65
- author: Papa Giorgio
Gavin Newsom, Mark Zuckerberg on 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt 002
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 15:01
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom,_Mark_Zuckerberg_on_2012_TechCrunch_Disrupt_002
Joseph Gordon-Levitt on embracing his conflicted role - The Gavin Newsom Show
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:54
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Looper star Joseph Gordon-Levitt on embracing his conflicted role - The Gavin Newsom Show Current TV / More about Joseph Gordon-Levitt : www.youtube.com
http://wn.com/Joseph_Gordon-Levitt_on_embracing_his_conflicted_role_The_Gavin_Newsom_Show
Looper star Joseph Gordon-Levitt on embracing his conflicted role - The Gavin Newsom Show Current TV / More about Joseph Gordon-Levitt : www.youtube.com
- published: 05 Dec 2012
- views: 984
- author: MsJGLmovies
Gavin Newsom, Mark Zuckerberg on 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt 001
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 15:01
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom,_Mark_Zuckerberg_on_2012_TechCrunch_Disrupt_001
California economy made of 'two worlds' - Gavin Newsom
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:14
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
California is on a path to recovery--the numbers don't lie. In October, the unemployment rate, in the state, was 10.1 percent, slightly down from 10.2 percent the previous month. The Golden State added 45800 jobs from September to October. Many economists agree we are moving in the right direction, yet, at a snail's pace. With more than 1.8 million people still out of work and nearly 600000 jobs unfilled, how do we jump start our economy and close the skills gap that plagues industry in California? Concerns over our current and future economy were the topics of discussion during the Milken Institute's California Summit. Folks, from up and down the state, from various regions spent the day collaborating on best practices to help our state remain globally competitive. Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom believes the answer is easy--thriving regions leads to a thriving state.
http://wn.com/California_economy_made_of_'two_worlds'_Gavin_Newsom
California is on a path to recovery--the numbers don't lie. In October, the unemployment rate, in the state, was 10.1 percent, slightly down from 10.2 percent the previous month. The Golden State added 45800 jobs from September to October. Many economists agree we are moving in the right direction, yet, at a snail's pace. With more than 1.8 million people still out of work and nearly 600000 jobs unfilled, how do we jump start our economy and close the skills gap that plagues industry in California? Concerns over our current and future economy were the topics of discussion during the Milken Institute's California Summit. Folks, from up and down the state, from various regions spent the day collaborating on best practices to help our state remain globally competitive. Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom believes the answer is easy--thriving regions leads to a thriving state.
- published: 21 Nov 2012
- views: 158
- author: caforward
Backstage at Disrupt With Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:24
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 - Tuesday Afternoon Full Sessions on Disrupt SF 2012 Full Sessions created by TechCrunch
http://wn.com/Backstage_at_Disrupt_With_Gavin_Newsom,_Lieutenant_Governor_of_California
TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 - Tuesday Afternoon Full Sessions on Disrupt SF 2012 Full Sessions created by TechCrunch
- published: 21 Sep 2012
- views: 30
- author: techcrunch
Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 12:29
- Updated: 05 Sep 2012
Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom addresses CA Dem Delegates at Charlotte 2012
http://wn.com/Lt_Governor_Gavin_Newsom
Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom addresses CA Dem Delegates at Charlotte 2012
- published: 05 Sep 2012
- views: 41
- author: cademorg
Gavin Newsom, Mark Zuckerberg on 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt 000
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:56
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom,_Mark_Zuckerberg_on_2012_TechCrunch_Disrupt_000
Mayor Ed Lee, Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom, China VM Chao Wang & ChinaSF Sign Economic & Trade Agreement
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 43:27
- Updated: 25 Jul 2012
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom & China Vice Minister of Commerce Chao Wang join ChinaSF to sign economic & trade agreement.
http://wn.com/Mayor_Ed_Lee,_Lt_Gov_Gavin_Newsom,_China_VM_Chao_Wang_ChinaSF_Sign_Economic_Trade_Agreement
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom & China Vice Minister of Commerce Chao Wang join ChinaSF to sign economic & trade agreement.
- published: 25 Jul 2012
- views: 58
- author: MayorEdLee
Send this Playlist by SMS
Email this Page
Hank Plante & Gavin Newsom Meltdown Interview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:25
- Updated: 17 Apr 2012
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom gets testy and melts- down, with CBS 5 Reporter Hank Plante. It was Newsom's 1st interview, after his "City Hall Sulk," after dropping out of the Gov's race.
http://wn.com/Hank_Plante_Gavin_Newsom_Meltdown_Interview
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom gets testy and melts- down, with CBS 5 Reporter Hank Plante. It was Newsom's 1st interview, after his "City Hall Sulk," after dropping out of the Gov's race.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 2550
- author: hankplante3
Gavin Newsom discusses California's fiscal situation on CNBC
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:40
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
Gavin Newsom is the Lt. Governor of California and former mayor of San Francisco. Shot live in San Francisco, CA. at Beyond Pix Studios. www.beyondpix.com May 15, 2012
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_discusses_California's_fiscal_situation_on_CNBC
Gavin Newsom is the Lt. Governor of California and former mayor of San Francisco. Shot live in San Francisco, CA. at Beyond Pix Studios. www.beyondpix.com May 15, 2012
- published: 05 Jun 2012
- views: 450
- author: BeyondPixInterviews
Gavin Newsom and Arnold Schwarzenegger on Gay marriage
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:56
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling that gay marriage ban was unconstitutional, hear Gavin and Arnold give their points of view
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_and_Arnold_Schwarzenegger_on_Gay_marriage
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling that gay marriage ban was unconstitutional, hear Gavin and Arnold give their points of view
- published: 16 May 2008
- views: 20232
- author: DreamActivistdotOrg
Gavin Newsom: Don't Overlook Arts Education
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:46
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
Complete video at: fora.tv California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom emphasizes the importance of including arts and creativity in a science, technology, engineering and mathematics educational foundation. Urging educators not to let lack of money be an excuse, Newsom asks, "What would you do if you knew you could not fail?" ----- The California STEM Learning Network and the Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson are proud to host the second annual California STEM Summit presented by Chevron. Join education, policy and business leaders from throughout California to: Learn about critical issues related to advancing STEM education Help move forward key STEM initiatives and programs in California Foster new collaborations that strengthen in-school and out-of-school STEM teaching and learning in K-14 education Gavin Newsom was elected as the 49th Lieutenant Governor of the State of California on November 2, 2010. His top priorities are economic development and job creation, improving access to higher education, and maintaining California's environmental leadership. Prior to being elected Lieutenant Governor, he served two-terms as Mayor of San Francisco. Under his leadership, the economy grew and jobs were created. The City became a center for biotech and clean tech. He initiated a plan to bring universal health care to all of the City's uninsured residents. And Newsom aggressively pursued local solutions to global climate change. In the final days of his second term ...
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_Don't_Overlook_Arts_Education
Complete video at: fora.tv California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom emphasizes the importance of including arts and creativity in a science, technology, engineering and mathematics educational foundation. Urging educators not to let lack of money be an excuse, Newsom asks, "What would you do if you knew you could not fail?" ----- The California STEM Learning Network and the Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson are proud to host the second annual California STEM Summit presented by Chevron. Join education, policy and business leaders from throughout California to: Learn about critical issues related to advancing STEM education Help move forward key STEM initiatives and programs in California Foster new collaborations that strengthen in-school and out-of-school STEM teaching and learning in K-14 education Gavin Newsom was elected as the 49th Lieutenant Governor of the State of California on November 2, 2010. His top priorities are economic development and job creation, improving access to higher education, and maintaining California's environmental leadership. Prior to being elected Lieutenant Governor, he served two-terms as Mayor of San Francisco. Under his leadership, the economy grew and jobs were created. The City became a center for biotech and clean tech. He initiated a plan to bring universal health care to all of the City's uninsured residents. And Newsom aggressively pursued local solutions to global climate change. In the final days of his second term ...
- published: 26 Oct 2011
- views: 1746
- author: ForaTv
MG Siegler interviews Gavin Newsom
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:14
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
Watch the Hook HD+ vs. Kindle Fire HD 8.9": bit.ly Read about both devices here: tcrn.ch at his Founders Den Office
http://wn.com/MG_Siegler_interviews_Gavin_Newsom
Watch the Hook HD+ vs. Kindle Fire HD 8.9": bit.ly Read about both devices here: tcrn.ch at his Founders Den Office
- published: 17 Feb 2012
- views: 277
- author: techcrunch
Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom Addresses the CA Dems!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 15:23
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to the delegates to the 2012 CA Democatic Convention on February 11, 2012.
http://wn.com/Lt_Governor_Gavin_Newsom_Addresses_the_CA_Dems!
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to the delegates to the 2012 CA Democatic Convention on February 11, 2012.
- published: 11 Feb 2012
- views: 2426
- author: cademorg
Gavin Newsom (9/8/11)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 63:03
- Updated: 09 Aug 2012
Gavin Newsom: The Man, the Issues and the State of California Lieutenant Governor, California; Former Mayor, San Francisco In conversation with Scott Shafer, Host, "California Report," KQED Now that Newsom has packed up his San Francisco office and moved to Sacramento, he's encountering many new challenges and responsibilities. He began his term with California billions of dollars in debt and facing numerous contentious issues. Come hear Newsom's positions on the most important issues facing California and how he thinks we can get back on track.
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_9_8_11
Gavin Newsom: The Man, the Issues and the State of California Lieutenant Governor, California; Former Mayor, San Francisco In conversation with Scott Shafer, Host, "California Report," KQED Now that Newsom has packed up his San Francisco office and moved to Sacramento, he's encountering many new challenges and responsibilities. He began his term with California billions of dollars in debt and facing numerous contentious issues. Come hear Newsom's positions on the most important issues facing California and how he thinks we can get back on track.
- published: 22 Sep 2011
- views: 778
- author: commonwealthclub
Policy Talks@Google: Gavin Newsom
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 53:05
- Updated: 20 Nov 2012
Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco, visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his views on marriage equality and California Proposition 8. This event took place on October 29, 2008, as part of the Policy Talks@Google series. The youngest San Francisco mayor in over a hundred years, Newsom was elected in 2003. In 2004, the Mayor captured nationwide interest when he granted marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Related links: www.noonprop8.com www.youtube.com
http://wn.com/Policy_Talks@Google_Gavin_Newsom
Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco, visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his views on marriage equality and California Proposition 8. This event took place on October 29, 2008, as part of the Policy Talks@Google series. The youngest San Francisco mayor in over a hundred years, Newsom was elected in 2003. In 2004, the Mayor captured nationwide interest when he granted marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Related links: www.noonprop8.com www.youtube.com
- published: 01 Nov 2008
- views: 9917
- author: AtGoogleTalks
Gavin Newsom & the Man Code
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 23 Nov 2012
San Francisco citizens (and the men of the square table) reflect on Gavin Newsom's betrayal of a good friend. For more coverage, see www.gavinwatch.com
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_the_Man_Code
San Francisco citizens (and the men of the square table) reflect on Gavin Newsom's betrayal of a good friend. For more coverage, see www.gavinwatch.com
- published: 04 Apr 2007
- views: 24252
- author: GavinWatch
Bill 1 O'Reilly Interviews San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:58
- Updated: 05 Oct 2012
A clip from the bst show on Cable News: Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. Watch every night 3:00am Eastern, 12:00pm Pacifc on Fox Nws Channel. Links-
http://wn.com/Bill_1_O'Reilly_Interviews_San_Francisco_Mayor_Gavin_Newsom
A clip from the bst show on Cable News: Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. Watch every night 3:00am Eastern, 12:00pm Pacifc on Fox Nws Channel. Links-
- published: 09 Feb 2010
- views: 1586
- author: reign538
Gavin Newsom Says Gay Marriage Everywhere "Inevitable"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:25
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
Gavin Newsom says gay marriage everywhere is "inevitable"
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_Says_Gay_Marriage_Everywhere_Inevitable
Gavin Newsom says gay marriage everywhere is "inevitable"
- published: 16 May 2008
- views: 12483
- author: GavinNewsomUnplugged
8. California Election and Politics
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 88:39
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
(November 13, 2012) Bruce Cain and Gavin Newsom discuss the future of California politics and what needs to be changed for California to remain a national leader. This course focuses on the fall election in November 2012 with examinations of major topics at stake in the election. The course is designed for all members of the Stanford University community. The course features guest speakers and professors engaging in discussion and debate. Stanford University www.stanford.edu Stanford Continuing Studies www.continuingstudies.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
http://wn.com/8_California_Election_and_Politics
(November 13, 2012) Bruce Cain and Gavin Newsom discuss the future of California politics and what needs to be changed for California to remain a national leader. This course focuses on the fall election in November 2012 with examinations of major topics at stake in the election. The course is designed for all members of the Stanford University community. The course features guest speakers and professors engaging in discussion and debate. Stanford University www.stanford.edu Stanford Continuing Studies www.continuingstudies.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
- published: 17 Nov 2012
- views: 1522
- author: StanfordUniversity
Bill Reichert interviews Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Gov CA #SVASE
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 12:01
- Updated: 19 Jan 2012
Bill Reichert, Garage Technology Ventures interviewed Gavin Newsom, Lieutentant Governor of California @SVASE Launch 2011 on how innovation, entrepreneurs & venture funding in Silicon Valley are impacting the growth of CA & the USA. Thanks to Alexander Blu for music 'Concert' www.jamendo.com For further info check out wwww.ezebis.com
http://wn.com/Bill_Reichert_interviews_Gavin_Newsom,_Lieutenant_Gov_CA_SVASE
Bill Reichert, Garage Technology Ventures interviewed Gavin Newsom, Lieutentant Governor of California @SVASE Launch 2011 on how innovation, entrepreneurs & venture funding in Silicon Valley are impacting the growth of CA & the USA. Thanks to Alexander Blu for music 'Concert' www.jamendo.com For further info check out wwww.ezebis.com
- published: 16 Jun 2011
- views: 148
- author: Pemo Theodore
Interview with Gavin Newsom
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:06
- Updated: 04 Nov 2011
JD Morris and Jordan Bach-Lombardo spoke with Lieutenant Governor of California and UC Regent Gavin Newsom about student protests and state funding reductions after he talked with students in the ASUC Senate Chambers.
http://wn.com/Interview_with_Gavin_Newsom
JD Morris and Jordan Bach-Lombardo spoke with Lieutenant Governor of California and UC Regent Gavin Newsom about student protests and state funding reductions after he talked with students in the ASUC Senate Chambers.
- published: 01 Apr 2011
- views: 193
- author: thedailycal
The Future is So Bright- Gavin Newsom
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:52
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
Fastforward reporters spent the summer investigating the future asking the leaders, technologists, architects, designers, and artists about their vision for the vision. Ca Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom spent some time talking about his vision of the future.
http://wn.com/The_Future_is_So_Bright_Gavin_Newsom
Fastforward reporters spent the summer investigating the future asking the leaders, technologists, architects, designers, and artists about their vision for the vision. Ca Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom spent some time talking about his vision of the future.
- published: 12 Oct 2012
- views: 19
- author: FastForwardweb
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom Interview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 17 Nov 2012
Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom speaks with Valley View New's Liberty Zabala about cuts to education at the "March In March" protest at the state Capitol in Sacramento.
http://wn.com/Lt_Gov_Gavin_Newsom_Interview
Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom speaks with Valley View New's Liberty Zabala about cuts to education at the "March In March" protest at the state Capitol in Sacramento.
- published: 07 Mar 2012
- views: 324
- author: Liberty Zabala
Interview with Gavin Newsom
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:35
- Updated: 25 Feb 2012
Reporter Kate Lyons speaks with Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, about the importance of voting.
http://wn.com/Interview_with_Gavin_Newsom
Reporter Kate Lyons speaks with Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, about the importance of voting.
- published: 01 Nov 2010
- views: 887
- author: thedailycal
An Interview with Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:36
- Updated: 21 Jul 2012
ISRAEL21c meets Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom on his visit to Israel with the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation. see more on www.israel21c.net
http://wn.com/An_Interview_with_Mayor_of_San_Francisco_Gavin_Newsom
ISRAEL21c meets Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom on his visit to Israel with the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation. see more on www.israel21c.net
- published: 07 May 2008
- views: 7373
- author: ISRAEL21cdotcom
Gavin Newsom Interview Part. 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:35
- Updated: 19 Oct 2010
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's exclusive interview with City on a Hill Press. PART ONE www.cityonahillpress.com
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_Interview_Part_1
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's exclusive interview with City on a Hill Press. PART ONE www.cityonahillpress.com
- published: 20 Feb 2009
- views: 668
- author: cityonahillpress
SF Mayor Gavin Newsom on the City Hall Steps
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:06
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
San Francisco, CA Nov 6, 2006 -- Shona Gouchenaur of Axis of Love caught up to SF Mayor Gavin Newsom the day before election day at a press conference for Rob Black, losing candidate for District 6 Supervisor. Mayor Newsom expounds on topics such as medical cannabis, AC/DC, and candidate Rob Black.
http://wn.com/SF_Mayor_Gavin_Newsom_on_the_City_Hall_Steps
San Francisco, CA Nov 6, 2006 -- Shona Gouchenaur of Axis of Love caught up to SF Mayor Gavin Newsom the day before election day at a press conference for Rob Black, losing candidate for District 6 Supervisor. Mayor Newsom expounds on topics such as medical cannabis, AC/DC, and candidate Rob Black.
- published: 08 Nov 2006
- views: 5492
- author: freemansullivan
Studio 11 LA producer Heidi Cuda interview Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom on jobs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:19
- Updated: 04 Aug 2012
Studio 11 LA investigative producer Heidi Cuda interviews California's Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom on jobs and the future of the state's economy; with Studio 11 LA anchor Jeff Michael
http://wn.com/Studio_11_LA_producer_Heidi_Cuda_interview_Lt_Gov_Gavin_Newsom_on_jobs
Studio 11 LA investigative producer Heidi Cuda interviews California's Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom on jobs and the future of the state's economy; with Studio 11 LA anchor Jeff Michael
- published: 19 Oct 2011
- views: 407
- author: Heidi Cuda
Gavin Newsom Interview Part. 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:02
- Updated: 05 Aug 2010
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's exclusive interview with City on a Hill Press. PART TWO www.cityonahillpress.com
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom_Interview_Part_2
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's exclusive interview with City on a Hill Press. PART TWO www.cityonahillpress.com
- published: 21 Feb 2009
- views: 242
- author: cityonahillpress
Gavin Newsom
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:32
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!!...Gavin Newsom advertising hair products.
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!!...Gavin Newsom advertising hair products.
- published: 09 Feb 2007
- views: 3517
- author: bunsandchouchou
5:25
Hank Plante & Gavin Newsom Meltdown Interview
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom gets testy and melts- down, with CBS 5 Reporter Hank Plan...
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: hankplante3
Hank Plante & Gavin Newsom Meltdown Interview
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom gets testy and melts- down, with CBS 5 Reporter Hank Plante. It was Newsom's 1st interview, after his "City Hall Sulk," after dropping out of the Gov's race.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 2550
- author: hankplante3
7:40
Gavin Newsom discusses California's fiscal situation on CNBC
Gavin Newsom is the Lt. Governor of California and former mayor of San Francisco. Shot liv...
published: 05 Jun 2012
author: BeyondPixInterviews
Gavin Newsom discusses California's fiscal situation on CNBC
Gavin Newsom is the Lt. Governor of California and former mayor of San Francisco. Shot live in San Francisco, CA. at Beyond Pix Studios. www.beyondpix.com May 15, 2012
- published: 05 Jun 2012
- views: 450
- author: BeyondPixInterviews
9:56
Gavin Newsom and Arnold Schwarzenegger on Gay marriage
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling that gay marriage ban was unconstitutional, h...
published: 16 May 2008
author: DreamActivistdotOrg
Gavin Newsom and Arnold Schwarzenegger on Gay marriage
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling that gay marriage ban was unconstitutional, hear Gavin and Arnold give their points of view
- published: 16 May 2008
- views: 20232
- author: DreamActivistdotOrg
3:46
Gavin Newsom: Don't Overlook Arts Education
Complete video at: fora.tv California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom emphasizes the importance ...
published: 26 Oct 2011
author: ForaTv
Gavin Newsom: Don't Overlook Arts Education
Complete video at: fora.tv California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom emphasizes the importance of including arts and creativity in a science, technology, engineering and mathematics educational foundation. Urging educators not to let lack of money be an excuse, Newsom asks, "What would you do if you knew you could not fail?" ----- The California STEM Learning Network and the Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson are proud to host the second annual California STEM Summit presented by Chevron. Join education, policy and business leaders from throughout California to: Learn about critical issues related to advancing STEM education Help move forward key STEM initiatives and programs in California Foster new collaborations that strengthen in-school and out-of-school STEM teaching and learning in K-14 education Gavin Newsom was elected as the 49th Lieutenant Governor of the State of California on November 2, 2010. His top priorities are economic development and job creation, improving access to higher education, and maintaining California's environmental leadership. Prior to being elected Lieutenant Governor, he served two-terms as Mayor of San Francisco. Under his leadership, the economy grew and jobs were created. The City became a center for biotech and clean tech. He initiated a plan to bring universal health care to all of the City's uninsured residents. And Newsom aggressively pursued local solutions to global climate change. In the final days of his second term ...
- published: 26 Oct 2011
- views: 1746
- author: ForaTv
9:14
MG Siegler interviews Gavin Newsom
Watch the Hook HD+ vs. Kindle Fire HD 8.9": bit.ly Read about both devices here: tcrn.ch a...
published: 17 Feb 2012
author: techcrunch
MG Siegler interviews Gavin Newsom
Watch the Hook HD+ vs. Kindle Fire HD 8.9": bit.ly Read about both devices here: tcrn.ch at his Founders Den Office
- published: 17 Feb 2012
- views: 277
- author: techcrunch
15:23
Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom Addresses the CA Dems!
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to the delegates to the 2012 CA Democatic Convention on Febru...
published: 11 Feb 2012
author: cademorg
Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom Addresses the CA Dems!
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to the delegates to the 2012 CA Democatic Convention on February 11, 2012.
- published: 11 Feb 2012
- views: 2426
- author: cademorg
63:03
Gavin Newsom (9/8/11)
Gavin Newsom: The Man, the Issues and the State of California Lieutenant Governor, Califor...
published: 22 Sep 2011
author: commonwealthclub
Gavin Newsom (9/8/11)
Gavin Newsom: The Man, the Issues and the State of California Lieutenant Governor, California; Former Mayor, San Francisco In conversation with Scott Shafer, Host, "California Report," KQED Now that Newsom has packed up his San Francisco office and moved to Sacramento, he's encountering many new challenges and responsibilities. He began his term with California billions of dollars in debt and facing numerous contentious issues. Come hear Newsom's positions on the most important issues facing California and how he thinks we can get back on track.
- published: 22 Sep 2011
- views: 778
- author: commonwealthclub
53:05
Policy Talks@Google: Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco, visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to di...
published: 01 Nov 2008
author: AtGoogleTalks
Policy Talks@Google: Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco, visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his views on marriage equality and California Proposition 8. This event took place on October 29, 2008, as part of the Policy Talks@Google series. The youngest San Francisco mayor in over a hundred years, Newsom was elected in 2003. In 2004, the Mayor captured nationwide interest when he granted marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Related links: www.noonprop8.com www.youtube.com
- published: 01 Nov 2008
- views: 9917
- author: AtGoogleTalks
1:40
Gavin Newsom & the Man Code
San Francisco citizens (and the men of the square table) reflect on Gavin Newsom's betraya...
published: 04 Apr 2007
author: GavinWatch
Gavin Newsom & the Man Code
San Francisco citizens (and the men of the square table) reflect on Gavin Newsom's betrayal of a good friend. For more coverage, see www.gavinwatch.com
- published: 04 Apr 2007
- views: 24252
- author: GavinWatch
6:58
Bill 1 O'Reilly Interviews San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
A clip from the bst show on Cable News: Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. Watch every night 3:00am ...
published: 09 Feb 2010
author: reign538
Bill 1 O'Reilly Interviews San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
A clip from the bst show on Cable News: Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. Watch every night 3:00am Eastern, 12:00pm Pacifc on Fox Nws Channel. Links-
- published: 09 Feb 2010
- views: 1586
- author: reign538
0:25
Gavin Newsom Says Gay Marriage Everywhere "Inevitable"
Gavin Newsom says gay marriage everywhere is "inevitable"...
published: 16 May 2008
author: GavinNewsomUnplugged
Gavin Newsom Says Gay Marriage Everywhere "Inevitable"
Gavin Newsom says gay marriage everywhere is "inevitable"
- published: 16 May 2008
- views: 12483
- author: GavinNewsomUnplugged
88:39
8. California Election and Politics
(November 13, 2012) Bruce Cain and Gavin Newsom discuss the future of California politics ...
published: 17 Nov 2012
author: StanfordUniversity
8. California Election and Politics
(November 13, 2012) Bruce Cain and Gavin Newsom discuss the future of California politics and what needs to be changed for California to remain a national leader. This course focuses on the fall election in November 2012 with examinations of major topics at stake in the election. The course is designed for all members of the Stanford University community. The course features guest speakers and professors engaging in discussion and debate. Stanford University www.stanford.edu Stanford Continuing Studies www.continuingstudies.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
- published: 17 Nov 2012
- views: 1522
- author: StanfordUniversity
12:01
Bill Reichert interviews Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Gov CA #SVASE
Bill Reichert, Garage Technology Ventures interviewed Gavin Newsom, Lieutentant Governor o...
published: 16 Jun 2011
author: Pemo Theodore
Bill Reichert interviews Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Gov CA #SVASE
Bill Reichert, Garage Technology Ventures interviewed Gavin Newsom, Lieutentant Governor of California @SVASE Launch 2011 on how innovation, entrepreneurs & venture funding in Silicon Valley are impacting the growth of CA & the USA. Thanks to Alexander Blu for music 'Concert' www.jamendo.com For further info check out wwww.ezebis.com
- published: 16 Jun 2011
- views: 148
- author: Pemo Theodore
3:06
Interview with Gavin Newsom
JD Morris and Jordan Bach-Lombardo spoke with Lieutenant Governor of California and UC Reg...
published: 01 Apr 2011
author: thedailycal
Interview with Gavin Newsom
JD Morris and Jordan Bach-Lombardo spoke with Lieutenant Governor of California and UC Regent Gavin Newsom about student protests and state funding reductions after he talked with students in the ASUC Senate Chambers.
- published: 01 Apr 2011
- views: 193
- author: thedailycal
Vimeo results:
1:10
gavin newsom
Gavin shares some of what he learned as wrote his forthcoming book, citizenville...
published: 25 Oct 2012
author: peter hirshberg
gavin newsom
Gavin shares some of what he learned as wrote his forthcoming book, citizenville
7:11
Gavin_Newsome_Sundance_Interview
published: 06 Jun 2012
author: Tylor Norwood
Gavin_Newsome_Sundance_Interview
Youtube results:
4:52
The Future is So Bright- Gavin Newsom
Fastforward reporters spent the summer investigating the future asking the leaders, techno...
published: 12 Oct 2012
author: FastForwardweb
The Future is So Bright- Gavin Newsom
Fastforward reporters spent the summer investigating the future asking the leaders, technologists, architects, designers, and artists about their vision for the vision. Ca Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom spent some time talking about his vision of the future.
- published: 12 Oct 2012
- views: 19
- author: FastForwardweb
3:20
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom Interview
Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom speaks with Valley View New's Liberty Zabala about cuts t...
published: 07 Mar 2012
author: Liberty Zabala
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom Interview
Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom speaks with Valley View New's Liberty Zabala about cuts to education at the "March In March" protest at the state Capitol in Sacramento.
- published: 07 Mar 2012
- views: 324
- author: Liberty Zabala
1:35
Interview with Gavin Newsom
Reporter Kate Lyons speaks with Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, about the importance...
published: 01 Nov 2010
author: thedailycal
Interview with Gavin Newsom
Reporter Kate Lyons speaks with Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, about the importance of voting.
- published: 01 Nov 2010
- views: 887
- author: thedailycal
2:36
An Interview with Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom
ISRAEL21c meets Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom on his visit to Israel with the San Fr...
published: 07 May 2008
author: ISRAEL21cdotcom
An Interview with Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom
ISRAEL21c meets Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom on his visit to Israel with the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation. see more on www.israel21c.net
- published: 07 May 2008
- views: 7373
- author: ISRAEL21cdotcom
photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore
18 Jan 2013
Angelina Jolie likes being a sex symbol. The Oscar-winning actress is regarded as one of the world's most beautiful women and she enjoys being told she looks good as it's important to feel sexy ... ....(size: 1.0Kb)
photo: AP / Sergei Chuzavkov
19 Jan 2013
MOSCOW — The government of President Viktor F. Yanukovich of Ukraine said Friday that it planned to bring murder charges against his political rival, the jailed former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, in connection with the 1996 assassination of a member of Parliament. Connect With Us on Twitter. Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List. Reporters and Editors ... He said that Ms ... Ms ... Ms ... ... ....(size: 8.0Kb)
photo: US Army / Sgt. 1st Class Abram Pinnington
20 Jan 2013
WASHINGTON -- The war rages about cities with names such as Goa and Timbuktu, in a sparsely populated, mostly flat, dusty and landlocked country in northwest Africa. The combatants include a nomadic Berber people known as Tuareg, the French Foreign Legion and a coalition of al-Qaida affiliates who identify themselves with the Maghreb, the desert region of Northwestern Africa ... Some U.S ... Afghanistan ... J ... "They go to where the fight is ... ....(size: 6.6Kb)
photo: US Army / Staff Sgt. Michael R. Noggle
18 Jan 2013
“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction” is Newton’s third law of physics. Its counterpart in geopolitics is “blowback,” when military action in one sphere produces an unintended and undesirable consequence in another. September 11, 2001, was blowback. George H.W. Bush had sent an army of half a million to hurl Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, a triumph ... bases in Saudi Arabia ... Patrick J....(size: 5.8Kb)
photo: AP / SITE Intel Group
18 Jan 2013
He's known as Mr Marlboro because of his cigarette smuggling. The French intelligence service calls him "The Uncatchable".. The truth is Mokhtar Belmokhtar and his fellow North African Jihadists are rapidly emerging as Europe's most potent strategic threat.. Born in central Algeria in 1972 he grew obsessed with Jihadi ideology in his teens. At 19 he volunteered to fight alongside the mujahedeen in Afghanistan. ... "He is very cold ... ....(size: 8.4Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
20 Jan 2013
Even with the 49ers being one of sports' hottest franchises right now, they just might open their $1.2 billion Santa Clara stadium in 2014 without a naming-rights deal that would pay a big chunk of the construction bill ... But he quickly added, "It's not a necessity ... Her opposition doesn't bother Lee's advisers, many of them holdovers from former Mayor Gavin Newsom's time, who have been out to curb Pak's influence since Day One ... ....(size: 5.5Kb)
Daily Press
19 Jan 2013
WILLIAMSBURG – Dyslexia is a struggle, but it doesn't mean a child lacks intelligence ... To share the resource they worked with Walsingham Academy to bring "The Big Picture. Rethinking Dyslexia" to the Kimball Theatre later this month ... Charles Schwab. Gavin Newsom ... The film, which features several famous dyslexics, including Sir Richard Branson, Gavin Newsom and Charles Schwab, does just that ... Want to go? "The Big Picture ... on Jan....(size: 5.5Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
19 Jan 2013
The sick-leave measure was filed just two minutes before the deadline ... Gavin Newsom said, noting that measures put on the ballot by a mayor or four politicians are typically "more about politics than policy." As San Francisco mayor, Newsom said he went to "excruciating lengths" to resist the temptation to use that power for political statements ... "It's ripe and long overdue for reform," Newsom said of the city's direct-to-ballot system....(size: 6.9Kb)
RoadRunner
19 Jan 2013
Some reaction to Lance Armstrong's admission in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career.. ___. "Tonight, Lance Armstrong finally acknowledged that his cycling career was built on a powerful combination of doping and deceit. His admission that he doped throughout his career is a small step in the right direction ... — Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom, via Twitter....(size: 4.8Kb)
Contra Costa Times
18 Jan 2013
noodls
18 Jan 2013
(Source. University of California). Ten years ago, UCSF opened the doors of its first research building at Mission Bay, launching a new bioscience community in a once-neglected area of the city ... With their colleagues at the Parnassus and Mount Zion campuses, these scientists and clinicians are breaking new ground in understanding disease and finding new ways to harness science to save lives ... Gov. Gavin Newsom; former Gov ... distributed by....(size: 2.6Kb)
MSNBC
18 Jan 2013
The University of California can avoid raising tuition this fall if the 10-campus system gets the funding increase proposed in Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan, school officials said Thursday ... UC officials said they don't anticipate the need to increase tuition for undergraduates or graduate students this coming fall ... Advertise ... Gov. Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker John Perez and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
18 Jan 2013
The sick-leave measure was filed just two minutes before the deadline ... Gavin Newsom said, noting that measures put on the ballot by a mayor or four politicians are typically "more about politics than policy." As San Francisco mayor, Newsom said he went to "excruciating lengths" to resist the temptation to use that power for political statements ... "It's ripe and long overdue for reform," Newsom said of the city's direct-to-ballot system....(size: 6.9Kb)
noodls
18 Jan 2013
(Source. University of California). By Carolyn McMillan. In a dramatic sign of the state's renewed focus on public higher education, California';s top elected officials joined the University of California Board of Regents Thursday (Jan ... Gov ... Gov. Gavin Newsom and state schools chief Tom Torlakson serve as ex-officio members of the board, but it is rare for all four to attend a regents meeting ... distributed by ... (noodl. 17250995) ....(size: 4.4Kb)
Sacramento Bee
18 Jan 2013
Some reaction to Lance Armstrong's admission in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career.. ---. "Tonight, Lance Armstrong finally acknowledged that his cycling career was built on a powerful combination of doping and deceit. His admission that he doped throughout his career is a small step in the right direction ... --- ... - Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom, via Twitter....(size: 3.9Kb)
Seattle Post
18 Jan 2013
Some reaction to Lance Armstrong's admission in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career.. ___. "Tonight, Lance Armstrong finally acknowledged that his cycling career was built on a powerful combination of doping and deceit. His admission that he doped throughout his career is a small step in the right direction ... ___ ... — Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom, via Twitter ... ....(size: 4.0Kb)
The Washington Post
18 Jan 2013
Some reaction to Lance Armstrong’s admission in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career.. ___. Loading... Comments Weigh In Corrections?. Recommend. Personal Post ... Anti-Doping Agency ... “Sports is not life and death...but the work (at)lancearmstrong does for cancer research and cancer victims is.” — Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom, via Twitter ... ....(size: 5.1Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
18 Jan 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — While Gov. Jerry Brown urged the University of California to consider basic changes in how it operates, UC officials on Thursday said that undergraduate tuition probably will not rise next year. However, fees for more than 50 professional graduate school programs, such as law and nursing, may increase, leaders of the 10-campus system said. UC President Mark G ... Gov. Gavin Newsom and State Supt ... That's absolutely true ... ....(size: 32.4Kb)
| Gavin Newsom | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| 49th Lieutenant Governor of California | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office January 10, 2011 |
|
| Governor | Jerry Brown |
| Preceded by | Abel Maldonado |
| 42nd Mayor of San Francisco | |
| In office January 3, 2004 – January 10, 2011 |
|
| Preceded by | Willie Brown |
| Succeeded by | Edwin M. Lee |
| Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from the 2nd District |
|
| In office 1997–2004 |
|
| Preceded by | District created in 2000; prior terms were on a city-wide seat. Appointed to Kevin Shelley's seat. |
| Succeeded by | Michela Alioto-Pier |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gavin Christopher Newsom (1967-10-10) October 10, 1967 (age 44) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Kimberly Guilfoyle (2001–2006, divorced) Jennifer Siebel (2008–present) |
| Residence | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Santa Clara University (B.A.) |
| Profession | Politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Signature |  |
Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician who is the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of California.[1] Previously, he was the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco, and was elected in 2003 to succeed Willie Brown, becoming San Francisco's youngest mayor in 100 years.[2] Newsom was re-elected in 2007 with 72 percent of the vote.[3][4] In 2010, Samepoint released a study that measured the social media influence of mayors around the country, and ranking the top 100 most social mayors. San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom was named the Most Social Mayor in America according to the Samepoint study.
Newsom graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, in 1985, and in 1989 from Santa Clara University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. His PlumpJack Wine Shop, founded in 1992, grew into a multimillion-dollar enterprise, and now includes bars, restaurants, and a Lake Tahoe hotel called Squaw Valley Inn. He was first appointed by Willie Brown to serve on San Francisco's Parking and Traffic Commission in 1996, and was appointed the following year as Supervisor. Newsom drew voter attention with his Care Not Cash program, designed to move homeless people into city assisted care. He defeated the Green Party's Matt Gonzalez 53% to 47% in a run-off in his race for mayor in 2003, becoming the youngest mayor of San Francisco since John W. Geary.
In March 2010, he announced his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor,[1] setting off speculation about possible successors if he were to win.[5] In June 2010, he received the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor.[6] Newsom won the 2010 lieutenant governor election on November 2, 2010.[7]
Contents |
Early life[link]
Newsom is a fourth-generation San Franciscan; his paternal great-grandfather emigrated from Ireland in 1865. One of his maternal great-grandfathers, Scotsman Thomas Addis, was a pioneer scientist in the field of nephrology and a professor of medicine at Stanford University. His father, William Newsom, is a retired state appeals court Justice. Newsom's parents separated when he was two and divorced in 1972. At age 10, Newsom moved with his mother, Tessa, and sister to nearby Marin County.[8][9] In May 2002, Tessa (Menzies) Newsom died after a five-year fight with breast cancer.
Newsom later reflected that he did not have an easy childhood.[9] Newsom attended kindergarten and first grade at the French-American bilingual school in San Francisco but transferred because of severe dyslexia that still affects him. His dyslexia has made it difficult for him to write, spell, read, and work with numbers.[9] He attended third through fifth grades at Notre Dame des Victoires, where he was placed in remedial reading classes.[8] Newsom graduated from Redwood High School in 1985. He played basketball and baseball in high school.[8] Newsom was an outfielder in baseball. His basketball skills placed him on the cover of the Marin Independent Journal.[8] Newsom's childhood friend Derek Smith recalled Newsom as "one of the hardest working players on the team who became a great player because of his effort, instead of his natural abilities."[8] Newsom's father attended his games with San Francisco politicians that included John Burton and Quentin Kopp. Newsom's father had ties to several other local politicians.[8] Newsom's aunt was married to Ron Pelosi, the brother-in-law of former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.[9] Newsom's father was also a friend of Governor Jerry Brown.[9]
Tessa Newsom worked three jobs to support Gavin and his sister Hilary Newsom Callan. In an interview with The San Francisco Chronicle, his sister recalled Christmas holidays when their mother told them there wouldn't be any gifts.[8] Despite limited finances, Tessa opened their home to foster children, instilling in Newsom the importance of public service.[8][10] His father's finances were strapped in part because of his father's tendency to give away his earnings.[10] Newsom worked several jobs in high school to help support his family.[3]
Newsom attended Santa Clara University on a partial baseball scholarship and student loans, where he graduated in 1989 with a B.A. in political science. Newsom was a left-handed pitcher for Santa Clara but he threw his arm out after two years and hasn't thrown a baseball since.[11] He lived in the Alameda apartments which Newsom later compared to living in a hotel. He later reflected on his education fondly, crediting the Socratic approach of Santa Clara that he said has helped him become an independent thinker who questions orthodoxy. Newsom spent a semester studying abroad in Rome.[12]
Business career[link]
Newsom's first job out of college was selling podiatric orthotics.[8] He later worked for real estate firm Shorenstein & Company, where he worked as an assistant and performed a range of jobs that included cleaning bathrooms and removing asbestos.[8] He earned US$18,000 per year.[9] Newsom also earned a real estate license.[8]
On May 14, 1991, Newsom and his investors created the company PlumpJack Associates L.P. In 1992, the group started the PlumpJack Wine Shop on Fillmore Street in San Francisco with the financial help of his family friend Gordon Getty. PlumpJack was the name of an opera written by Getty, who invested in 10 of Newsom's 11 businesses.[9] Getty told the San Francisco Chronicle that he treated Newsom like a son and invested in his first business venture because of that relationship. According to Getty, later business investments were because of "the success of the first."[9] At the PlumpJack Cafe, Newsom gave a monthly $50 gift certificate to employees whose business ideas failed because according to him in 1997: "There can be no success without failure."[11]
One of Newsom's early interactions with government occurred when Newsom resisted the San Francisco Health Department requirement to install a sink at his PlumpJack Wines. The Health Department argued that wine was a food. The department required the store to install a $27,000 sink in the carpeted wine shop on the grounds that the shop needed the sink for a mop. When Newsom was later appointed Supervisor, he told the San Francisco Examiner: "That's the kind of bureaucratic malaise I'm going to be working through."[11]
The business grew to an enterprise with over 700 employees.[8] The PlumpJack Cafe Partners L.P. opened the PlumpJack Cafe, also on Fillmore Street, in 1993. Between 1993 and 2000, Newsom and his investors opened several other businesses that included the PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn with a PlumpJack Cafe (1994), the Napa Valley winery (1995), the Balboa Cafe Bar and Grill (1995), the PlumpJack Development Fund L.P. (1996), the MatrixFillmore Bar (1998), PlumpJack Wines shop Noe Valley branch (1999), PlumpJackSport retail clothing (2000), and a second Balboa Cafe at Squaw Valley (2000).[9] Newsom's investments included five restaurants and two retail clothing stores.[8] Newsom's annual income was greater than $429,000 from 1996 to 2001.[9] In 2002, his business holdings were valued at more than $6.9 million.[8]
Newsom sold his share of his San Francisco businesses when he became mayor in 2004. He maintained his ownership in the PlumpJack companies outside San Francisco that included the PlumpJack Winery in Oakville, California, new PlumpJack-owned Cade Winery in Angwin, California and the PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn. He is currently the president in absentia of Airelle Wines Inc., which is connected to the PlumpJack Winery in Napa County. Newsom earned between $141,000 and $251,000 in 2007 from his business interests.[13] In February 2006 he paid $2,350,000 for his residence in the Russian Hill neighborhood, which he put on the market in April 2009 for $2,995,000.[14]
Early political career[link]
Newsom's first political experience came when he volunteered for Willie Brown's campaign for mayor in 1995. Newsom hosted a private fundraiser at his PlumpJack Cafe.[9] In 1996, he was appointed by San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown to a vacant seat on the Parking and Traffic Commission and was later elected president of the commission. In 1997, Brown appointed him to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors seat vacated by Kevin Shelley. At the time, he became the youngest member of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors and also the board's only heterosexual Caucasian male.[15][16][17] Newsom was sworn in by his father and pledged to bring his business experience to the Board.[16] Willie Brown called Newsom "part of the future generation of leaders of this great city."[16] Newsom described himself as a "social liberal and a fiscal watchdog."[16][17] Newsom was subsequently elected to a full, 4 year term to the Board in 1998.
In 1999, San Francisco's voters chose to exchange at-large elections to the Board for the previous district system, and Newsom was reelected in 2000 and 2002 to represent District 2, which includes the Pacific Heights, Marina, Cow Hollow, Sea Cliff, and Laurel Heights. He faced no opposition in his 2002 reelection. His district had the highest income level and the highest Republican registration in San Francisco. Newsom also had author Danielle Steel and actor Robin Williams as constituents.[18] In 2000, Newsom paid $500 to the San Francisco Republican Party to be on the party's endorsement slate.[19]
As Supervisor, Newsom gained public attention for his role in advocating reform of the city's Municipal Railway (Muni).[20] He was one of two supervisors endorsed by Rescue Muni, a transit riders group, in his 1998 reelection. He sponsored Proposition B to require Muni and other city departments to develop detailed customer service plans.[9][21] The measure passed with 56.6% of the vote.[22] Newsom sponsored a ballot measure from Rescue Muni; a version of the measure was approved by voters in November 1999.[20]
Newsom also supported allowing restaurants to serve alcohol at their outdoor tables, banning tobacco advertisements visible from the streets, stiffer penalties for landlords, and a resolution to commend Colin Powell for raising money for youth programs that was defeated.[20] Newsom's support for business interests at times strained his relationship with labor leaders.[20]
During Newsom's time as Supervisor, he was pro-development and for smart growth along with being "anti-handout."[23] He supported housing projects through public-private partnerships to increase home ownership and affordable housing in San Francisco.[23] Newsom supported HOPE, a failed local ballot measure that would have allowed increased condo-conversion rate if a certain percentage of tenants within a building were buying their units.[23] As a candidate for Mayor, he supported building 10,000 new housing units to create 15,000 new construction jobs.[23]
As Supervisor, the centerpiece of Newsom's efforts was a voter initiative called "Care Not Cash (Measure N)," which offered care, supportive housing, drug treatment, and help from behavior health specialists for the homeless instead of direct cash aid from the state's General Assistance program.[23] Many homeless rights advocates protested against Care Not Cash.[24][25] The successfully passed ballot measure raised the political profile of Gavin Newsom and provided the volunteers, donors, and campaign staff, which helped make him a leading contender for the Mayorship in 2003.[9][23][26][27]
Mayoral races[link]
2003[link]
Main article: San Francisco mayoral election, 2003
Newsom placed first in the November 4, 2003 general election in a nine-person field. Newsom received 41.9 percent of the vote to Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez's 19.6 in the first round of balloting, but he faced a closer race in the December 9 runoff when many of the city's liberal groups coalesced around the campaign of Gonzalez.[26] The race was partisan with attacks against Gonzalez for his support of Ralph Nader in the 2000 presidential election and attacks against Newsom for contributing $500 to a Republican slate mailer in 2000 that endorsed issues Newsom supported.[28][29] Democratic leadership felt that they needed to reinforce San Francisco as a Democratic stronghold after losing the 2000 presidential election and the 2003 recall election to Arnold Schwarzenegger.[29] National figures from the Democratic Party, including Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Jesse Jackson, campaigned on Newsom's behalf.[29][30] Five supervisors endorsed Gonzalez while Newsom received the endorsement of Willie Brown.[26][27]
Newsom won the run-off race, capturing 53 percent of the vote to Gonzalez's 47 percent, and winning by about 11,000 votes.[26] Newsom ran as a business friendly centrist Democrat and a moderate in San Francisco politics; some of his opponents called him conservative.[26][29] Newsom claimed he was a centrist in the Dianne Feinstein mold.[23][31] He ran on the slogan "great cities, great ideas" and presented over 21 policy papers.[27] Newsom pledged to continue working on San Francisco's homelessness issue.[26] Newsom was sworn in as Mayor on January 3, 2004. He called for unity among the city's political factions and promised to address the issues of potholes, public schools, and affordable housing.[32] Newsom said he was "a different kind of leader who "isn't afraid to solve even the toughest problems."[33]
2007[link]
Main article: San Francisco mayoral election, 2007
San Francisco's progressive community attempted to find a candidate to run a strong campaign against Newsom. Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and Chris Daly considered running against Newsom but both declined. Matt Gonzalez also decided not to challenge Newsom.[34] When the August 10, 2007 filing deadline passed, the discussion around San Francisco shifted to talk about Newsom's second term. He was challenged in the election by 13 challengers that included George Davis, a nudist activist, and Michael Powers, owner of the Power Exchange sex club.[35] Conservative former Supervisor Tony Hall withdrew by early September due to lack of support.[36] The San Francisco Chronicle declared in August 2007 that Newsom faced no "serious threat to his re-election bid." Newsom raised $1.6 million for his re-election campaign by early August.[37] He won re-election on November 6, 2007 with over 72% of the vote.[4] Upon taking office for a second term, Newsom promised to focus on the environment, homelessness, health care, education, housing and rebuilding San Francisco General Hospital.[38][39]
Mayoralty[link]
Main article: Mayoralty of Gavin Newsom
As mayor, Newsom has focused on development projects in Hunters Point and Treasure Island. He signed the Health Choices Plan in 2007 to provide San Francisco residents with universal healthcare. Under Newsom, San Francisco ostensibly joined the Kyoto Protocol, although it could not actually join a treaty between sovereign states. In 2004, Newsom gained national attention when he directed the San Francisco city-county clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in violation of the current state law.[40] In August 2004, the Supreme Court of California annulled the marriages that Newsom had authorized, as they conflicted with state law at that time. Still, Newsom's unexpected move brought national attention to the issues of gay marriage and gay rights, solidifying political support for Newsom in San Francisco and in the gay community.[3][10][41]
In 2009 he received the Leadership for Healthy Communities Award along with mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City and three other public officials for his commitment to making healthy food and physical activity options more accessible to children and families.[42] For example, in 2008, he hosted the Urban Rural Roundtable to explore ways to promote regional food development and increased access to healthy affordable food,[43] and he secured $8 million in federal and local funds for the Better Streets program,[44] which ensures that public health perspectives are fully integrated into urban planning processes. He also signed a menu-labeling bill into law, requiring that chain restaurants print nutrition information on their menus.[45] Newsom was recently named America's Most Social Mayor by Samepoint.com, based on analysis of the Social Media profile of Mayors from the top 100 largest cities in the United States.[46]
Proposition 8[link]
During the 2008 election, Newsom was a prominent and vocal opponent of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative to reverse the California Supreme Court ruling that there was a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.[47] In the months leading up to Election Day, Proposition 8 supporters released a commercial featuring Newsom saying the following words in a speech regarding same-sex marriage: "This door's wide open now. It's going to happen, whether you like it or not."[48] Some observers noted that polls shifted in favor of Proposition 8 following the release of the commercial; this, in turn, led to speculation that Newsom unwittingly played a role in the passage of the amendment.[48][49][50][51][52]
Controversies[link]
In 2004, Newsom gained national attention when he directed the San Francisco city-county clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in violation of the current state law.[53] In August 2004, the Supreme Court of California annulled the marriages that Newsom had authorized, as they conflicted with state law at that time. Still, Newsom's unexpected move brought national attention to the issues of gay marriage and gay rights, solidifying political support for Newsom in San Francisco and in the gay community.[3][10][41]
In January 2007, it was revealed that Newsom had had a romantic relationship in mid-2005 with Ruby Rippey-Tourk, the wife of his former deputy chief of staff and then campaign manager, Alex Tourk.[54] Tourk filed for divorce shortly after the revelation and left Newsom's campaign and administration.
In 2009, Newsom came under attack for the City of San Francisco's policy of illegally harboring juvenile criminal undocumented immigrants. The city was circumventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement by harboring or sending the immigrants back to their own native countries. [55] In 2010, Newsom was removed from the San Francisco Country Democratic Central Committee. SFCDDCC chairman Aaron Peskin said that he no longer resides in the city and therefore does not deserve a seat on the committee.
Lieutenant Governor[link]
In April 2009, Newsom announced his intention to run for Governor of California in the 2010 Election. In September 2009, he received the endorsement of former president Bill Clinton. During the campaign, Newsom remarked that, if elected, he'd like to be referred to as "The Gavinator" (a reference to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's nickname, "The Governator"). Throughout the campaign, however, Newsom suffered low poll numbers, trailing Democratic front-runner Jerry Brown by more than 20 points in most polls.[56][57][58][59][60][61][62] In October 2009, Newsom dropped out of the gubernatorial race.[63][64][65]
In February 2010 Newsom filed initial paperwork to run for Lieutenant Governor,[66] and officially announced his candidacy in March.[1] He received the Democratic nomination in June,[6] and won the election on November 2, 2010.[67]
Newsom was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor, on January 10, 2011. The one-week delay was to ensure that a successor as mayor of San Francisco was chosen before he left office. Edwin M. Lee, the city administrator, took office the day after Newsom was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor.
Personal life[link]
Newsom was baptized and reared Roman Catholic. He describes himself as an "Irish-Catholic rebel...in some respects, but one that still has tremendous admiration for the Church and very strong faith." When asked about the current state of the Catholic Church in an interview, he said the church was in crisis. Newsom said he stays with the Church because of his "strong connection to a greater purpose, and ... higher being ..." Newsom identifies himself as a practicing Roman Catholic,[68] stating that he has a "strong sense of faith that is perennial: day in and day out."[12]
In December 2001, Newsom married Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former San Francisco prosecutor and legal commentator for Court TV, CNN, and MSNBC, and who is now a prominent personality on Fox News Channel. The couple married at Saint Ignatius Catholic Church on the campus of the University of San Francisco, where Guilfoyle attended law school. The couple appeared in the September 2004 issue of Harper's Bazaar, a fashion magazine, in a spread of them at the Getty mansion with the title the "New Kennedys."[3][69] In January 2005 they jointly filed for divorce, citing "difficulties due to their careers on opposite coasts."[70]
In January 2007, it was revealed that Newsom had had a romantic relationship in mid-2005 with Ruby Rippey-Tourk, the wife of his former deputy chief of staff and then campaign manager, Alex Tourk.[71] Tourk filed for divorce shortly after the revelation and left Newsom's campaign and administration. Newsom's affair with Rippey-Tourk [72] impacted his popularity with male voters, who viewed his indiscretions as a betrayal of a close friend and ally.[73]
In September 2006, Newsom began dating actress Jennifer Siebel after being set up for a blind date by a mutual friend, Kathy Wilsey.[74] In December 2007 their engagement was announced,[75][76] and they were married in Stevensville, Montana, in July 2008.[77] In September 2009, Siebel gave birth to a girl, Montana Tessa Newsom.[78] Siebel gave birth to a son, Hunter Siebel Newsom, on June 12, 2011.
In 2012, Newsom and his family moved out of San Francisco and bought a house in Kentfield, CA. The house is a midcentury home on 1.38 acres. It also hosts direct views of Mt Tamalpais. Newsom bought it for $2.145 million.[79]
Newsom is the second cousin, twice removed, of musician Joanna Newsom.[80]
Beginning in May 2012, Current TV will carry The Gavin Newsom Show, a one-hour talk program focused on California notables.[81]
References[link]
- ^ a b c Coté, John (2010-03-12). "City Insider : It's official: Newsom's running for lieutenant governor". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=58967.
- ^ "About the Mayor". The City and County of San Francisco. http://www.sfgov.org/site/mayor_index.asp?id=22014. Retrieved 2007-11-27.
- ^ a b c d e Cecilia M. Vega (2007-10-27). "Newsom reflects on 4 years of ups and downs as election approaches". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/21/MNIGSN4FM.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
- ^ a b SFGov (November 6, 2007) "Election Summary: November 6, 2007." San Francisco City and County Department of Elections.
- ^ Knight, Heather (2010-03-12). "Who could be chosen as next S.F. mayor and how". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/12/MNHH1CDRV6.DTL.
- ^ a b "PolitiCal". Los Angeles Times. 2010-06-08. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/06/california-election-results-gavin-newsom.html.
- ^ York, Anthony (November 3, 2010). "Gavin Newsom elected California lieutenant governor". Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/11/gavin-newsom-elected-california-lieutenant-governor.html. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Julian Guthrie (2003-12-07). "Gonzalez, Newsom: What makes them run From modest beginnings, Newsom finds connections for business, political success". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/07/MNG313I2O41.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Chuck Finnie, Rachel Gordon, Lance Williams (2003-03-23). "NEWSOM'S PORTFOLIO Mayoral hopeful has parlayed Getty money, family ties and political connections into local prominence". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/23/MN245262.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
- ^ a b c d Mike Weiss (2005-01-23). "Newsom in Four Acts What shaped the man who took on homelessness, gay marriage, Bayview-Hunters Point and the hotel strike in one year". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/23/CMGD9AHK721.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ a b c The Examiner Staff (1997-03-11). "NEWSOM'S WAY He hopes business success can translate to public service By: George Raine". The San Francisco Examiner. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1997/03/11/BUSINESS14992.dtl. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
- ^ a b Kristen Boffi (2008-04-12). "San Francisco's Gavin Newsom sits down with The Santa Clara Newsom discusses how Santa Clara guides his career". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://media.www.thesantaclara.com/media/storage/paper946/news/2008/02/14/News/San-Franciscos.Gavin.Newsom.Sits.Down.With.The.Santa.Clara-3210314.shtml. Retrieved 2008-04-13.
- ^ Cecilia M. Vega (2008-04-01). "Mayor has financial holdings at Napa, Tahoe". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/01/BAC1VTCK2.DTL. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
- ^ "Newsom Penthouse For Sale". San Francisco Luxury, SFLuxe.com. 2009-04-24. http://sfluxe.com/2009/04/24/newsom-penthouse-for-sale/. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
- ^ John King (1997-02-04). "S.F.'s New Supervisor -- Bold, Young Entrepreneur". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/02/04/MN64501.DTL. Retrieved 2008-04-16.
- ^ a b c d Rachel Gordon (1997-02-14). "Newsom gets his political feet wet Newest, youngest supervisor changes his tune after a chat with the mayor". The San Francisco Examiner. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1997/02/14/NEWS6815.dtl. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- ^ a b Ray Delgado (1997-02-03). "Board gets a straight white male Mayor's new supervisor is businessman Gavin Newsom, 29". The San Francisco Examiner. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/07/MNG313I2O41.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
- ^ Edward Epstein (2000-09-15). "LONE CANDIDATE IS GOING ALL OUT IN DISTRICT 2 RACE Newsom has his eye on mayor's office". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/09/15/MN61774.DTL. Retrieved 2008-04-16.
- ^ Frontlines Newspaper (2003-12-01). "Newsom Busted: Gave the Republican Party $$$ to support Bush against Gore in 2000". Indybay. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/12/01/16627861.php. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
- ^ a b c d Gordon, Rachel (1998-10-16). "Fights idea that he's a Brown "appendage'". San Francisco Guardian. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1998/10/16/NEWS2969.dtl. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
- ^ Edward Epstein (1998-10-02). "Muni Riders Back Newsom And Ammiano". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/10/02/MN91413.DTL. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
- ^ "HOW SAN FRANCISCO VOTED". The San Francisco Chronicle. 1998-11-05. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/11/05/MN85585.DTL. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
- ^ a b c d e f g Carol Lloyd (2003-10-29). "From Pacific Heights, Newsom Is Pro-Development and Anti-Handout". SF Gate. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/10/29/carollloyd.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Friedenbacz, Jennifer. "Opinion: Prop. N's big lies". San Francisco Bay Guardian Online. http://www.sfbg.com/36/51/x_oped.html. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
- ^ anonymous (2002-10-09). "Religious Witness urges SF voters to reject Prop N on moral and political grounds.". indybay.org. http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/10/1535118.php. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
- ^ a b c d e f Rachel Gordon, Mark Simon (2003-12-10). "NEWSOM: 'THE TIME FOR CHANGE IS HERE'". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/10/MNGQV3IVM61.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ a b c by Carol Lloyd (2003-12-21). "See how they ran". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/21/LVGVB3ONBA1.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ John Wildermuth, Rachel Gordon (2003-11-12). "Mayoral hopefuls come out swinging in debate". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/12/MNGR82VUTB1.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ a b c d John Wildermuth, Katia Hetter, Demian Bulwa (2003-12-03). "SF Campaign Notebook". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/03/BAGSD3EQJ51.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Joan Walsh (2003-12-09). "San Francisco's Greens vs. Democrats grudge-match". Salon.com. http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/feature/2003/12/09/newsom/. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Rachel Gordon, Julian Guthrie, Joe Garofoli (2003-11-05). "IT'S NEWSOM VS. GONZALEZ Headed for runoff: S.F.'s 2 top vote-getters face off Dec. 9". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/05/MNGC82QIQG1.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Rachel Gordon (2004-01-09). "Mayor Newsom's goal: a 'common purpose' CHALLENGES AHEAD: From potholes to the homeless". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/10/MNGQV3IVM61.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
- ^ Rachel Gordon, Mark Simon (2006-01-08). "Mayor's challenge: finishing what he started". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/10/MNGQV3IVM61.DTL. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
- ^ Cecilia M. Vega, Wyatt Buchanan (2007-06-03). "SAN FRANCISCO Newsom faces few hurdles to re-election Position available: Progressives rally but fail to find a candidate". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/03/BAGSGQ6TAD1.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ Cecilia M. Vega (2007-08-11). "Newsom lacks serious challengers, but lineup is full of characters". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/11/MNVVRFQM6.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ C.W. Nevius (2007-09-06). "When Newsom gets a free pass for 4 more years, nobody wins". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/06/BAICRVOQ8.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ Cecilia M. Vega (2007-08-03). "Far-out in front — Newsom is raising war-size war chest". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/03/BA01RC83I2.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ Cecilia M. Vega (2008-01-18). "Newsom's $139,700 office spending spree". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/18/MNJIUH4BF.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Cecilia M. Vega, John Wildermuth, Heather Knight (2007-11-07). "NEWSOM'S 2ND ACT His Priorities: Environment, homelessness, education, housing, rebuilding S.F. General". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/11/07/MN8OT5JCH.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Lisa Leff (2007-08-10). "Newsom set to endorse Clinton for president". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/08/10/state/n000208D48.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-07. [dead link]
- ^ a b Dolan, Maura (2008-05-16). "California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban". The Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gaymarriage16-2008may16,0,6182317.story?page=2. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
- ^ "Top Policy Groups Take Action to Create Healthy Communities, Prevent Childhood Obesity". Leadership for Healthy Communities. http://www.leadershipforhealthycommunities.org/content/view/284/58/. Retrieved 2010-11-18. [dead link]
- ^ Allday, Erin (2008-11-30). "S.F. food policy heading in a healthy direction". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/30/BA6A14C5S1.DTL.
- ^ "PressRoom_NewsReleases_2008_82219 « Office of the Mayor". Sfgov.org. http://www.sfgov.org/site/mayor_index.asp?id=82219. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ Knight, Heather (2008-08-04). "S.F. pushes legislation to promote good health". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/04/MNBG122T4F.DTL&type=printable.
- ^ Shih, Gerry (2010-02-19). "Gavin Newsom, the Twitter Prince - NYTimes.com". Bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com. http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/gavin-newsom-the-twitter-prince/. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ "San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom fights for same-sex marriage | abc7news.com". Abclocal.go.com. 2008-10-29. http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/state&id=6477948. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ a b Allday, Erin (2008-11-06). "Newsom was central to same-sex marriage saga". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/05/MN1B13S3D3.DTL.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ by Jonathan DarmanJanuary 17, 2009 (2009-01-17). "SF Mayor Gavin Newsom Risks Career on Gay Marriage". Newsweek. http://www.newsweek.com/id/180047. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ "Baptist Press - 'Historic' campaign scored Prop 8's win in California - News with a Christian Perspective". Bpnews.net. http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29277. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ Lisa Leff (2007-08-10). "Newsom set to endorse Clinton for president". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/08/10/state/n000208D48.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-07. [dead link]
- ^ Phil Matier, Andrew Ross, Cecilia M. Vega (2007-01-31). "Aide Quits As Newsom's Affair With His Wife Is Revealed / Campaign manager confronts mayor, who is 'in shock'". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-01-31/news/17229155_1_newsom-alex-tourk-mayor-s-office. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
- ^ "<a title="S.F. Dems blast mayor in sanctuary city case" href="/2009-03-27/bay-area/17215088_1_sanctuary-city-policy-immigration-policy-youths">S.F. Dems blast mayor in sanctuary city case</a>". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://articles.sfgate.com/keyword/sanctuary-city/featured/2.
- ^ Matier, Phillip; Ross, Andrew (2009-08-24). "CAMPAIGN 2010 / Mayor Newsom wants to move on up to the governor's place / Campaign expected to be very crowded and very expensive". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-08-24/bay-area/17175365_1_jerry-brown-san-francisco-mayor-san-franciscans.
- ^ November 12, 2008 (2008-11-12). "Governor 2010: New Field Poll - Things Look Bad For Newsom, Not So Bad for Feinstein and Villaraigosa". Johnny California. http://johnnycalifornia.com/2008/11/12/governor-2010-new-field-poll-things-look-bad-for-newsom-not-so-bad-for-feinsteinvillaraigosa/. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ Barabak, Mark Z.; Halper, Evan (2009-10-31). "Gavin Newsom drops out of California governor's race". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/31/local/me-newsom-out31. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
- ^ [3][dead link]
- ^ Steinhauer, Jennifer (2009-10-31). "San Francisco Mayor Drops Governor Bid". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/us/31newsom.html. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
- ^ Garofoli, Joe (2009-10-08). "Newsom: "Mark my words: These poll numbers will change dramatically"...d'oh!!! : SFGate: Politics Blog". Sfchronicle.us. http://sfchronicle.us/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=49142. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ "poll-puts-brown-in-the-lead from venturacountystar.com". StumbleUpon. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/AgXG97/www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/oct/05/poll-puts-brown-in-the-lead/. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ Selway, William (2009-04-21). "San Francisco Mayor Joins Race for California Governor in 2010". Bloomberg. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a0jLxmmMJdmU&refer=us. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ [4] Harrell,Ashley. The Wrong Stuff, SF Weekly (September 9, 2009) Retrieved November 19, 2009
- ^ [5][dead link] Gavin Newsom for a Better California (October 30, 2009) Retrieved January 6, 2010
- ^ "Gavin Newsom, San Francisco mayor, files papers in lieutenant governor race | News10.net | Sacramento, California | Local News". News10.net. 2010-02-17. http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=75568. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ "Brown, Newsom, Boxer elected". The Stanford Daily. http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/11/03/brown-newsom-boxer-elected/. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
- ^ Gordon, Rachel (2006-03-03). "DOWN BY THE BAY / A blues story with all the requisite elements: love, booze and death". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-03-03/bay-area/17287812_1_scientology-press-briefings-human-rights.
- ^ Garchik, Leah (August 5, 2004). "Leah Garchik column". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/05/DDGIG826VT1.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross (2005-01-06). "Newsom, wife decide to end 3-year marriage Careers on opposite coasts take toll on mayor, TV star". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/06/MNGJ1ALTGV1.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
- ^ Phil Matier, Andrew Ross, Cecilia M. Vega (2007-01-31). "Aide Quits As Newsom's Affair With His Wife Is Revealed / Campaign manager confronts mayor, who is 'in shock'". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-01-31/news/17229155_1_newsom-alex-tourk-mayor-s-office. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
- ^ . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3E-7JcS1Jc. Retrieved 2011-06-08.
- ^ Nevius, C.W. (February 2, 2007). "Unforgivable breach of the Man Code". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/03/NEVIUS.TMP. Retrieved 2011-06-08.
- ^ Heather Maddan (2007-03-11). "Girlfriend, uninterrupted / Actress Jennifer Siebel is standing by her man, who happens to be Mayor Gavin Newsom, and says there's no trouble in their romance". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/11/LVGL7OGFJ31.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Carolyne Zinko (2008-01-01). "S.F. Mayor Newsom engaged to be married". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/31/BANDU7IAK.DTL. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Matier and Ross (2008-05-25). "Newsom, Siebel plan Montana wedding in July". "San Francisco Chronicle". http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/25/BAJI10SFOI.DTL&hw=siebel+newsom&sn=001&sc=1000. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
- ^ Park, Michael Y. (2008-07-26). "San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Weds - Weddings". People.com. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20215158,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ The City Insider (2009-02-18). "And baby makes three for the Newsoms". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/18/BAEC15VO5O.DTL&tsp=1. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
- ^ Wilkey, Robin (November 29, 2011). "Gavin Newsom Buys House In Marin (PHOTOS)". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/gavin-newsom-buys-house-in-marin_n_1119560.html.
- ^ "San Francisco Bay Guardian article, 2003". Sfbg.com. 2003-11-26. http://www.sfbg.com/38/09/art_music_pleased.html. Retrieved 2010-11-07.
- ^ "The Gavin Newsom Show Coming in May to Current TV". http://current.com/the-gavin-newsom-show/. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
External links[link]
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gavin Newsom |
- Office of Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom
- Newsom's official campaign website
- CityMayors profile about Gavin Newsom
- Gavin Newsom debates Maggie Gallagher on gay marriage in a May 2009 interactive debate from NOW on PBS Online
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Kevin Shelley |
Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 2 1997–2004 |
Succeeded by Michela Alioto-Pier |
| Preceded by Willie Brown |
Mayor of San Francisco 2004–2011 |
Succeeded by Edwin M. Lee |
| Preceded by Abel Maldonado |
Lieutenant Governor of California January 10, 2011 – present |
Incumbent |
| Party political offices | ||
| Preceded by John Garamendi |
Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of California 2010 |
Most recent |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Newsom, Gavin |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | |
| Date of birth | October 10, 1967 |
| Place of birth | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
http://wn.com/Gavin_Newsom
Related pages:
http://fr.wn.com/Gavin Newsom
http://nl.wn.com/Gavin Newsom
http://pt.wn.com/Gavin Newsom
http://de.wn.com/Gavin Newsom
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Newsom
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Schwarzenegger in January 2010. | |
| 38th Governor of California | |
| In office November 17, 2003 – January 3, 2011 |
|
| Lieutenant | Cruz Bustamante Mona Pasquil (acting) John Garamendi Abel Maldonado |
| Preceded by | Gray Davis |
| Succeeded by | Jerry Brown |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (1947-07-30) July 30, 1947 (age 64) Thal, Austria |
| Citizenship | Austria United States |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Shriver (1986–2011) |
| Relations | Gustav Schwarzenegger (father, deceased) Aurelia Jadrny (mother, deceased) |
| Children | Katherine (b. 1989) Christina (b. 1991) Patrick (b. 1993) Christopher (b. 1997) Joseph Baena (b. 1997) |
| Alma mater | Santa Monica College University of Wisconsin–Superior |
| Profession | Bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Signature |  |
| Website | Personal website |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | Austrian Armed Forces |
| Years of service | 1965 |
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger ( /ˈʃwɔrtsənɛɡər/; German: [ˈaɐnɔlt ˈalɔʏs ˈʃvaɐtsənˌʔɛɡɐ]; born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011.
Schwarzenegger began to weight train at the age of 15 years old. He was awarded the title of Mr. Universe at age 20 and went on to win the Mr. Olympia contest seven times. Schwarzenegger has remained a prominent presence in the sport of bodybuilding and he has written several books and numerous articles on the sport. Schwarzenegger gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon. He was nicknamed the "Austrian Oak" and the "Styrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, "Arnie" during his acting career and more recently the "Governator" (from "Governor" and "Terminator").[1]
As a Republican, he was first elected on October 7, 2003, in a special recall election to replace then-Governor Gray Davis. Schwarzenegger was sworn in on November 17, 2003, to serve the remainder of Davis's term. Schwarzenegger was then re-elected on November 7, 2006, in California's 2006 gubernatorial election, to serve a full term as governor, defeating Democrat Phil Angelides, who was California State Treasurer at the time. Schwarzenegger was sworn in for his second term on January 5, 2007.[2]
Schwarzenegger was married to Maria Shriver. The couple separated in 2011 after 25 years of marriage.
Contents |
Early life[link]
Schwarzenegger was born in Thal, Austria, a small village bordering the Styrian capital Graz, and was christened Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger.[3] His parents were the local police chief, Gustav Schwarzenegger (1907–72), and Aurelia (née Jadrny; 1922–1998). His father served in World War II, after he voluntarily applied to join the Nazi Party in 1938.[4] He served with the German Army as a Hauptfeldwebel of the Feldgendarmerie and was discharged in 1943 after contracting malaria. They were married on October 20, 1945 – Gustav was 38, and Aurelia was a 23-year-old widow with a son, Meinhard. According to Schwarzenegger, both of his parents were very strict: "Back then in Austria it was a very different world, if we did something bad or we disobeyed our parents, the rod was not spared."[5] He grew up in a Roman Catholic family who attended Mass every Sunday.[6][7]
Gustav had a preference for his stepson Meinhard, over his son, Arnold.[8] His favoritism was "strong and blatant," which stemmed from unfounded suspicion that Arnold was not his child.[9] Schwarzenegger has said his father had "no patience for listening or understanding your problems."[6] Schwarzenegger had a good relationship with his mother and kept in touch with her until her death.[10] In later life, Schwarzenegger commissioned the Simon Wiesenthal Center to research his father's wartime record, which came up with no evidence of atrocities despite Gustav's membership in the Nazi Party and SA.[8] Schwarzenegger's father's background received wide press attention during the 2003 California recall campaign.[11] At school, Schwarzenegger was apparently in the middle but stood out for his "cheerful, good-humored and exuberant" character.[6] Money was a problem in their household; Schwarzenegger recalled that one of the highlights of his youth was when the family bought a refrigerator.[9]
As a boy, Schwarzenegger played several sports, heavily influenced by his father.[6] He picked up his first barbell in 1960, when his football (soccer) coach took his team to a local gym.[3] At the age of 14, he chose bodybuilding over football as a career.[12][13] Schwarzenegger has responded to a question asking if he was 13 when he started weightlifting: "I actually started weight training when I was 15, but I'd been participating in sports, like soccer, for years, so I felt that although I was slim, I was well-developed, at least enough so that I could start going to the gym and start Olympic lifting."[5] However, his official website biography claims: "At 14, he started an intensive training program with Dan Farmer, studied psychology at 15 (to learn more about the power of mind over body) and at 17, officially started his competitive career."[14] During a speech in 2001, he said, "My own plan formed when I was 14 years old. My father had wanted me to be a police officer like he was. My mother wanted me to go to trade school."[15] Schwarzenegger took to visiting a gym in Graz, where he also frequented the local movie theaters to see bodybuilding idols such as Reg Park, Steve Reeves and Johnny Weissmuller on the big screen. "I was inspired by individuals like Reg Park and Steve Reeves."[5] When Reeves died in 2000, Schwarzenegger fondly remembered him: "As a teenager, I grew up with Steve Reeves. His remarkable accomplishments allowed me a sense of what was possible, when others around me didn't always understand my dreams ... Steve Reeves has been part of everything I've ever been fortunate enough to achieve." In 1961, Schwarzenegger met former Mr. Austria Kurt Marnul, who invited him to train at the gym in Graz.[3] He was so dedicated as a youngster that he broke into the local gym on weekends, when it was usually closed, so that he could train. "It would make me sick to miss a workout ... I knew I couldn't look at myself in the mirror the next morning if I didn't do it."[5] When Schwarzenegger was asked about his first movie experience as a boy, he replied, "I was very young, but I remember my father taking me to the Austrian theaters and seeing some newsreels. The first real movie I saw, that I distinctly remember, was a John Wayne movie."[5]
In 1971, his brother Meinhard died in a car accident.[3] Meinhard had been drinking and was killed instantly. Schwarzenegger did not attend his funeral.[9] Meinhard was due to marry Erika Knapp, and the couple had a three-year-old son, Patrick. Schwarzenegger would pay for Patrick's education and help him to immigrate to the United States.[9] Gustav died the following year from a stroke.[3] In Pumping Iron, Schwarzenegger claimed that he did not attend his father's funeral because he was training for a bodybuilding contest. Later, he and the film's producer said this story was taken from another bodybuilder for the purpose of showing the extremes that some would go to for their sport and to make Schwarzenegger's image more cold and machine-like in order to fan controversy for the film.[16] Barbara Baker, his first serious girlfriend, has said he informed her of his father's death without emotion and that he never spoke of his brother.[17] Over time, he has given at least three versions of why he was absent from his father's funeral.[9]
In an interview with Fortune in 2004, Schwarzenegger told how he suffered what "would now be called child abuse" at the hands of his father:[4][18]
My hair was pulled. I was hit with belts. So was the kid next door. It was just the way it was. Many of the children I've seen were broken by their parents, which was the German-Austrian mentality. They didn't want to create an individual. It was all about conforming. I was one who did not conform, and whose will could not be broken. Therefore, I became a rebel. Every time I got hit, and every time someone said, 'you can't do this,' I said, 'this is not going to be for much longer, because I'm going to move out of here. I want to be rich. I want to be somebody.'
Early adulthood[link]
Schwarzenegger served in the Austrian Army in 1965 to fulfill the one year of service required at the time of all 18-year-old Austrian males.[3][14] During his army service, he won the Junior Mr. Europe contest.[13] He went AWOL during basic training so he could take part in the competition and spent a week in military prison: "Participating in the competition meant so much to me that I didn't carefully think through the consequences." He won another bodybuilding contest in Graz, at Steirer Hof Hotel (where he had placed second). He was voted best built man of Europe, which made him famous.
"The Mr. Universe title was my ticket to America – the land of opportunity, where I could become a star and get rich."[15] Schwarzenegger made his first plane trip in 1966, attending the NABBA Mr. Universe competition in London.[14] He would come in second in the Mr. Universe competition, not having the muscle definition of American winner Chester Yorton.[14]
Charles "Wag" Bennett, one of the judges at the 1966 competition, was impressed with Schwarzenegger and he offered to coach him. As Schwarzenegger had little money, Bennett invited him to stay in his crowded family home above one of his two gyms in Forest Gate, London, England. Yorton's leg definition had been judged superior, and Schwarzenegger, under a training program devised by Bennett, concentrated on improving the muscle definition and power in his legs. Staying in the East End of London helped Schwarzenegger improve his rudimentary grasp of the English language.[19][20] Also in 1966, Schwarzenegger had the opportunity to meet childhood idol Reg Park, who became his friend and mentor.[21] The training paid off and, in 1967, Schwarzenegger won the title for the first time, becoming the youngest ever Mr. Universe at the age of 20.[14] He would go on to win the title a further three times.[13] Schwarzenegger then flew back to Munich, training for four to six hours daily, attending business school and working in a health club (Rolf Putzinger's gym where he worked and trained from 1966–1968), returning in 1968 to London to win his next Mr. Universe title.[14] He frequently told Roger C. Field, a friend in Munich at that time, "I'm going to become the greatest actor!"
Move to the U.S.[link]
Schwarzenegger, who dreamed of moving to the U.S. since the age of 10, and saw bodybuilding as the avenue through which to do so,[22] realized his dream by moving to the United States in September 1968 at the age of 21, speaking little English.[3][13] "Naturally, when I came to this country, my accent was very bad, and my accent was also very strong, which was an obstacle as I began to pursue acting."[5] There he trained at Gold's Gym in Venice, Los Angeles, California, under Joe Weider. From 1970 to 1974, one of Schwarzenegger's weight training partners was Ric Drasin, a professional wrestler who designed the original Gold's Gym logo in 1973.[23] Schwarzenegger also became good friends with professional wrestler "Superstar" Billy Graham. In 1970, at age 23, he captured his first Mr. Olympia title in New York, and would go on to win the title a total of seven times.[14]
Immigration law firm Siskind & Susser have stated that Schwarzenegger may have been an illegal immigrant at some point in the late 1960s or early 1970s because of violations in the terms of his visa.[24] LA Weekly would later say in 2002 that Schwarzenegger is the most famous immigrant in America, who "overcame a thick Austrian accent and transcended the unlikely background of bodybuilding to become the biggest movie star in the world in the 1990s".[22]
In 1977, Schwarzenegger's autobiography/weight-training guide Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder was published and became a huge success.[3] After taking English classes at Santa Monica College in California, he earned a BA by correspondence from the University of Wisconsin–Superior, where he graduated with a degree in international marketing of fitness and business administration in 1979.[25]
Bodybuilding career[link]
 |
This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2012) |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
|---|---|
| Personal Info | |
| Nickname | The Austrian Oak |
| Born | (1947-07-30) July 30, 1947 (age 64) Thal, Styria, Austria |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[26] |
| Weight | 250 pounds (113 kg) |
| Professional Career | |
| Pro-debut | NABBA Mr. Universe, 1968 |
| Best win | IFBB Mr. Olympia, 1970–1975, 1980, Seven Times |
| Predecessor | Sergio Oliva ('69), Frank Zane ('79) |
| Successor | Franco Columbu ('76, '81) |
| Active | Retired 1980 |
| Competition record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men’s Bodybuilding | ||
Competitor for  |
||
| Mr Universe (amateur) | ||
| 1st | 1967 | |
| Mr Universe (pro) | ||
| 1st | 1968 | |
| 1st | 1969 | |
| 1st | 1970 | |
| Mr. Olympia | ||
| 2nd | 1969 | |
| 1st | 1970 | |
| 1st | 1971 | |
| 1st | 1972 | |
| 1st | 1973 | |
| 1st | 1974 | |
| 1st | 1975 | |
| 1st | 1980 | |
| Powerlifting[27] | ||
| Competitor for |
||
| International Powerlifting Championships | ||
| 1st | 1966 | +80 kg |
| German Powerlifting Championships | ||
| 2nd | 1967 | +80 kg |
| 1st | 1968 | +80 kg |
| Graz-Paradise Keller Powerlifting Championships | ||
| 2nd | 1967 | +80 kg |
| Men's Weightlifting[28] | ||
| Competitor for |
||
| Styrian Junior Weightlifting Championships | ||
| 1st | 1964 | |
| German Austrian Weightlifting Championships | ||
| 1st | 1965 | |
Schwarzenegger is considered among the most important figures in the history of bodybuilding, and his legacy is commemorated in the Arnold Classic annual bodybuilding competition. Schwarzenegger has remained a prominent face in the bodybuilding sport long after his retirement, in part because of his ownership of gyms and fitness magazines. He has presided over numerous contests and awards shows.
For many years, he wrote a monthly column for the bodybuilding magazines Muscle & Fitness and Flex. Shortly after being elected Governor, he was appointed executive editor of both magazines, in a largely symbolic capacity. The magazines agreed to donate $250,000 a year to the Governor's various physical fitness initiatives. The magazine MuscleMag International has a monthly two-page article on him, and refers to him as "The King".
One of the first competitions he won was the Junior Mr. Europe contest in 1965.[3] He won Mr. Europe the following year, at age 19.[3][14] He would go on to compete in, and win, many bodybuilding contests. His bodybulding victories included five Mr. Universe (4 – NABBA [England], 1 – IFBB [USA]) wins, and seven Mr. Olympia wins, a record which would stand until Lee Haney won his eighth consecutive Mr. Olympia title in 1991.
Schwarzenegger continues to work out even today. When asked about his personal training during the 2011 Arnold Classic he said that he was still working out a half an hour with weights every day.[29]
- Competition Weight: 235 lb (107 kg) (top 250 lb (113 kg))
- Off Season Weight: 255 lb (116 kg) (top 260 lb (118 kg))
Powerlifting/Weightlifting[link]
During Arnold's early years in bodybuilding, he also competed in several Olympic weightlifting & Powerlifting contests. Arnold won 2 weightlifting contests in 1964 & 1965, as well as 2 powerlifting contests in 1966 & 1968.[28]
In 1967, Schwarzenegger competed in and won the Munich stone-lifting contest, in which a stone weighing 508 German pounds (254 kg/560 lbs.) is lifted between the legs while standing on two foot rests.
Personal records[link]
- Clean & press – 264 lb (120 kg)[28]
- Snatch – 243 lb (110 kg)[28]
- Clean & jerk – 298 lb (135 kg)[28]
- Squat – 215 kg (470 lb)[28]
- Bench press – 200 kg (440 lb)[28]
- Deadlift – 310 kg (680 lb)[28]
Mr. Olympia[link]
Schwarzenegger's goal was to become the greatest bodybuilder in the world, which meant becoming Mr. Olympia.[3][14] His first attempt was in 1969, when he lost to three-time champion Sergio Oliva. However, Schwarzenegger came back in 1970 and won the competition, making him the youngest ever Mr. Olympia at the age of 23, a record he still holds to this day.[14]
He continued his winning streak in the 1971–74 competitions.[14] In 1975, Schwarzenegger was once again in top form, and won the title for the sixth consecutive time,[14] beating Franco Columbu. After the 1975 Mr. Olympia contest, Schwarzenegger announced his retirement from professional bodybuilding.[14]
Months before the 1975 Mr. Olympia contest, filmmakers George Butler and Robert Fiore persuaded Schwarzenegger to compete, in order to film his training in the bodybuilding documentary called Pumping Iron. Schwarzenegger had only three months to prepare for the competition, after losing significant weight to appear in the film Stay Hungry with Jeff Bridges. Lou Ferrigno proved not to be a threat, and a lighter-than-usual Schwarzenegger convincingly won the 1975 Mr. Olympia.
Schwarzenegger came out of retirement, however, to compete in the 1980 Mr. Olympia.[3] Schwarzenegger was training for his role in Conan, and he got into such good shape because of the running, horseback riding and sword training, that he decided he wanted to win the Mr. Olympia contest one last time. He kept this plan a secret, in the event that a training accident would prevent his entry and cause him to lose face. Schwarzenegger had been hired to provide color commentary for network television, when he announced at the eleventh hour that while he was there: "Why not compete?" Schwarzenegger ended up winning the event with only seven weeks of preparation. After being declared Mr. Olympia for a seventh time, Schwarzenegger then officially retired from competition.
Steroid use[link]
Schwarzenegger has admitted to using performance-enhancing anabolic steroids while they were legal, writing in 1977 that "steroids were helpful to me in maintaining muscle size while on a strict diet in preparation for a contest. I did not use them for muscle growth, but rather for muscle maintenance when cutting up."[30] He has called the drugs "tissue building."[31]
In 1999, Schwarzenegger sued Dr. Willi Heepe, a German doctor who publicly predicted his early death on the basis of a link between his steroid use and his later heart problems. As the doctor had never examined him personally, Schwarzenegger collected a US$10,000 libel judgment against him in a German court.[32] In 1999, Schwarzenegger also sued and settled with The Globe, a U.S. tabloid which had made similar predictions about the bodybuilder's future health.[33]
Height[link]
His official height of 6'2" (1.88 m) has been brought into question by several articles. In his bodybuilding days in the late 1960s, he was measured to be 6'1.5" (1.87 m), a height confirmed by his fellow bodybuilders.[34][35] However, in 1988 both the Daily Mail and Time Out magazine mentioned that Schwarzenegger appeared noticeably shorter.[36] More recently, before running for Governor, Schwarzenegger's height was once again questioned in an article by the Chicago Reader.[37] As Governor, Schwarzenegger engaged in a light-hearted exchange with Assemblyman Herb Wesson over their heights. At one point Wesson made an unsuccessful attempt to, in his own words, "[s]ettle this once and for all and find out how tall he is"[38] by using a tailor's tape measure on the Governor. Schwarzenegger retaliated by placing a pillow stitched with the words "Need a lift?" on the five-foot-five inch (165 cm) Wesson's chair before a negotiating session in his office.[39] Bob Mulholland also claimed Arnold was 5'10" (1.78 m) and that he wore risers in his boots.[40] The debate on Schwarzenegger's height has spawned a website solely dedicated to the issue,[41] and his page remains one of the most active on CelebHeights.com, a website which discusses the heights of celebrities.[34]
Acting career[link]
See also: Arnold Schwarzenegger filmography and List of awards and nominations received by Arnold Schwarzenegger
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
|---|---|
.jpg) |
|
| Other names | Arnold Strong Arnie |
| Occupation | Actor, director, producer |
| Years active | 1969–2004, 2012–present (acting) |
Schwarzenegger wanted to move from bodybuilding into acting, finally achieving it when he was chosen to play the role of Hercules in 1970's Hercules in New York. Credited under the name "Arnold Strong," his accent in the film was so thick that his lines were dubbed after production.[13] His second film appearance was as a deaf mute hit-man for the mob in director Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), which was followed by a much more significant part in the film Stay Hungry (1976), for which he was awarded a Golden Globe for New Male Star of the Year. Schwarzenegger has discussed his early struggles in developing his acting career. "It was very difficult for me in the beginning – I was told by agents and casting people that my body was 'too weird', that I had a funny accent, and that my name was too long. You name it, and they told me I had to change it. Basically, everywhere I turned, I was told that I had no chance."[5]
Schwarzenegger drew attention and boosted his profile in the bodybuilding film Pumping Iron (1977),[12][13] elements of which were dramatized. In 1991, Schwarzenegger purchased the rights to the film, its outtakes, and associated still photography.[42] Schwarzenegger auditioned for the title role of The Incredible Hulk, but did not win the role because of his height. Later, Lou Ferrigno got the part of Dr. David Banner's alter ego. Schwarzenegger appeared with Kirk Douglas and Ann-Margret in the 1979 comedy The Villain. In 1980 he starred in a biographical film of the 1950s actress Jayne Mansfield as Mansfield's husband, Mickey Hargitay.
Schwarzenegger's breakthrough film was the sword-and-sorcery epic Conan the Barbarian in 1982, which was a box-office hit.[12] This was followed by a sequel, Conan the Destroyer in 1984, although it was not as successful as its predecessor.[43] In 1983, Schwarzenegger starred in the promotional video "Carnival in Rio".
In 1984, he made the first of three appearances as the eponymous character and what some would say was the signature role in his acting career in director James Cameron's science fiction thriller film The Terminator.[12][13][44] Following The Terminator, Schwarzenegger made Red Sonja in 1985.[43]
During the 1980s, audiences had an appetite for action films, with both Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone becoming international stars.[13] Schwarzenegger's roles reflected his sense of humor, separating his roles from more serious action hero fare. His alternative-universe comedy/thriller Last Action Hero featured a poster of the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day which, in the fictional alternate universe, had Sylvester Stallone as its star.
He made a number of successful films: Commando (1985), Raw Deal (1986), The Running Man (1987), and Red Heat (1988). In Predator (1987), another successful film, Schwarzenegger led a cast which included future Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura (Ventura also appeared in The Running Man and Batman & Robin with Schwarzenegger) and future candidate for governor of Kentucky Sonny Landham.
Twins (1988), a comedy with Danny DeVito also proved successful. Total Recall (1990) netted Schwarzenegger $10 million and 15% of the gross, and was a science fiction script directed by Paul Verhoeven, based on the Philip K. Dick short story, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". Kindergarten Cop (1990) reunited him with director Ivan Reitman, who directed him in Twins.
Schwarzenegger had a brief foray into directing, first with a 1990 episode of the TV series Tales from the Crypt, entitled "The Switch", and then with the 1992 telemovie Christmas in Connecticut. He has not directed since.
Schwarzenegger's commercial peak was his return as the title character in 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which was the highest-grossing film of 1991.[citation needed] In 1993, the National Association of Theatre Owners named him the "International Star of the Decade."[3] His next film project, the 1993 self-aware action comedy spoof Last Action Hero was released opposite Jurassic Park, and did not do well at the box office. His next film, the comedy drama True Lies (1994) was a popular spy film, and saw Schwarzenegger, reunited with James Cameron, appearing opposite Jamie Lee Curtis.
That same year the comedy Junior (1994) was released, the last of his three collaborations with Ivan Reitman and again co-starring Danny DeVito and also for the second time featuring Pamela Reed. This film brought Schwarzenegger his second Golden Globe nomination, this time for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy. It was followed by the action thriller Eraser (1996), the Christmas comedy Jingle All The Way (1996) with Arnold playing the main character, Howard Langston, and the comic book-based Batman & Robin (1997), where he played the villain Mr. Freeze. This was his final film before taking time to recuperate from a back injury. Following the critical failure of Batman & Robin, Schwarzenegger's film career and box office prominence went into decline.
He returned with the supernatural thriller End of Days (1999), later followed by the action films The 6th Day (2000) and Collateral Damage (2002) all of which failed to do well at the box office. In 2003, he made his third appearance as the title character in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which went on to earn over $150 million domestically.[citation needed]
In tribute to Schwarzenegger in 2002, Forum Stadtpark, a local cultural association, proposed plans to build a 25-meter (82 ft) tall Terminator statue in a park in central Graz. Schwarzenegger reportedly said he was flattered, but thought the money would be better spent on social projects and the Special Olympics.[45]
His film appearances after becoming Governor of California include a 3-second cameo appearance in The Rundown (a.k.a., Welcome to the Jungle) with The Rock, and the 2004 remake of Around the World in 80 Days, where he appeared onscreen with action star Jackie Chan for the first time. In 2005 he appeared as himself in the film The Kid & I. Schwarzenegger voiced Baron von Steuben in Episode 24 ("Valley Forge") of Liberty's Kids.
Schwarzenegger had been rumored to be appearing in Terminator Salvation as the original T-800 model, alongside Roland Kickinger. Schwarzenegger denied his involvement,[46] but it was later revealed that although he would appear briefly he would not be shooting new footage, and his image would be inserted into the movie from stock footage of the first Terminator movie.[47][48] Schwarzenegger's most recent appearance was in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables, where he made a cameo appearance alongside Stallone and Bruce Willis.[citation needed]
Return to acting[link]
In January 2011, just weeks after leaving office in California, Schwarzenegger announced that he was reading several new scripts for future films, one of them being the World War II action drama With Wings as Eagles, written by Randall Wallace, based on a true story.[49][50]
On March 6, 2011, at the Arnold Seminar of the Arnold Classic, Schwarzenegger revealed that he was being courted for several films, including sequels to The Terminator and remakes of Predator and The Running Man, and that he was "packaging" a comic book character.[51] The character was later revealed to be the Governator, star of the comic book and animated series of the same name. Schwarzenegger inspired the character and co-developed it with Stan Lee, who would have produced the series. Schwarzenegger would have voiced the Governator.[52][53][54][55]
On May 20, 2011, Schwarzenegger's entertainment counsel announced that all movie projects currently in development were being halted. "Governor Schwarzenegger is focusing on personal matters and is not willing to commit to any production schedules or timelines."[56] However, the Daily Star reported on May 29 that Schwarzenegger had been offered $40 million to star in two Terminator films.[57]
On July 11, 2011, it was announced that Schwarzenegger is considering a comeback film despite his legal problems.[58] He has reportedly signed to star in Last Stand as a dishonored Los Angeles cop.[59] On September 6, 2011, it was announced that Schwarzenegger had signed on to The Expendables 2, in which he will play a larger cameo.[60] He will later star in Unknown Soldier and The Tomb, thought to be released in 2013.[61]
Political career[link]
Main article: Political career of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Early politics[link]
Schwarzenegger has been a registered Republican for many years. As an actor, his political views were always well known as they contrasted with those of many other prominent Hollywood stars, who are generally considered to be a liberal and Democratic-leaning community. At the 2004 Republican National Convention, Schwarzenegger gave a speech and explained why he was a Republican:[62]
I finally arrived here in 1968. What a special day it was. I remember I arrived here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of determination, full of desire. The presidential campaign was in full swing. I remember watching the Nixon-Humphrey presidential race on TV. A friend of mine who spoke German and English translated for me. I heard Humphrey saying things that sounded like socialism, which I had just left. But then I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting the government off your back, lowering the taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, I said, "What party is he?" My friend said, "He's a Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican." And I have been a Republican ever since.
In 1985, Schwarzenegger appeared in Stop the Madness, an anti-drug music video sponsored by the Reagan administration. He first came to wide public notice as a Republican during the 1988 Presidential election, accompanying then-Vice President George H.W. Bush at a campaign rally.[63]
Schwarzenegger's first political appointment was as chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, on which he served from 1990 to 1993.[3] He was nominated by George H. W. Bush, who dubbed him "Conan the Republican". He later served as Chairman for the California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under Governor Pete Wilson. Yet, political analysts have identified Schwarzenegger as a liberal, as he has become more left-leaning since his election.[64]
Between 1993 and 1994, Schwarzenegger was a Red Cross ambassador (a ceremonial role fulfilled by celebrities), recording several television/radio public service announcements to donate blood.
In an interview with Talk magazine in late 1999, Schwarzenegger was asked if he thought of running for office. He replied, "I think about it many times. The possibility is there, because I feel it inside."[65] The Hollywood Reporter claimed shortly after that Schwarzenegger sought to end speculation that he might run for governor of California.[65] Following his initial comments, Schwarzenegger said, "I'm in show business – I am in the middle of my career. Why would I go away from that and jump into something else?"[65]
Governor of California[link]
Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy in the 2003 California recall election for Governor of California on the August 6, 2003 episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.[13] According to Schwarzenegger, he did not decide to run until the day of the announcement:
The recall happens and people are asking me, ‘What are you going to do?’ I thought about it but decided I wasn’t going to do it. I told Maria I wasn’t running. I told everyone I wasn’t running. I wasn’t running. I just thought [en route to the Tonight Show], This will freak everyone out. It’ll be so funny. I’ll announce that I am running. I told Leno I was running. And two months later I was governor. What the fuck is that? All these people are asking me, ‘What’s your plan? Who’s on your staff?’ I didn’t have a plan. I didn’t have a staff. I wasn’t running until I went on Jay Leno.[66]
Schwarzenegger had the most name recognition in a crowded field of candidates, but he had never held public office and his political views were unknown to most Californians. His candidacy immediately became national and international news, with media outlets dubbing him the "Governator" (referring to The Terminator movies, see above) and "The Running Man" (the name of another one of his films), and calling the recall election "Total Recall" (yet another Schwarzenegger starrer). Schwarzenegger declined to participate in several debates with other recall replacement candidates, and appeared in only one debate on September 24, 2003.[67]
On October 7, 2003, the recall election resulted in Governor Gray Davis being removed from office with 55.4% of the Yes vote in favor of a recall. Schwarzenegger was elected Governor of California under the second question on the ballot with 48.6% of the vote to choose a successor to Davis. Schwarzenegger defeated Democrat Cruz Bustamante, fellow Republican Tom McClintock, and others. His nearest rival, Bustamante, received 31% of the vote. In total, Schwarzenegger won the election by about 1.3 million votes. Under the regulations of the California Constitution, no runoff election was required. Schwarzenegger was the first foreign-born governor of California since Irish-born Governor John G. Downey in 1862.
As soon as Schwarzenegger was elected governor, Willie Brown said he would start a drive to recall the governor. Schwarzenegger was equally entrenched in what he considered to be his mandate in cleaning up gridlock. Building on a catchphrase from the sketch "Hans and Franz" from Saturday Night Live (which partly parodied his bodybuilding career), Schwarzenegger called the Democratic State politicians "girlie men".[68]
Schwarzenegger's early victories included repealing an unpopular increase in the vehicle registration fee as well as preventing driver's licenses being given out to illegal immigrants, but later he began to feel the backlash when powerful state unions began to oppose his various initiatives. Key among his reckoning with political realities was a special election he called in November 2005, in which four ballot measures he sponsored were defeated. Schwarzenegger accepted personal responsibility for the defeats and vowed to continue to seek consensus for the people of California. He would later comment that "no one could win if the opposition raised 160 million dollars to defeat you".
Schwarzenegger then went against the advice of fellow Republican strategists and appointed a Democrat, Susan Kennedy, as his Chief of Staff. Schwarzenegger gradually moved towards a more politically moderate position, determined to build a winning legacy with only a short time to go until the next gubernatorial election.
Schwarzenegger ran for re-election against Democrat Phil Angelides, the California State Treasurer, in the 2006 elections, held on November 7, 2006. Despite a poor year nationally for the Republican party, Schwarzenegger won re-election with 56.0% of the vote compared with 38.9% for Angelides, a margin of well over one million votes.[69] In recent years, many commentators have seen Schwarzenegger as moving away from the right and towards the center of the political spectrum. After hearing a speech by Schwarzenegger at the 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom said that, "[H]e's becoming a Democrat [... H]e's running back, not even to the center. I would say center-left".
It was rumored that Schwarzenegger might run for the United States Senate in 2010, as his governorship would be term-limited by that time. This turned out to be false.[70][71]
Wendy Leigh, who wrote an unofficial biography on Schwarzenegger, claims he plotted his political rise from an early age using the movie business and bodybuilding as building blocks to escape a depressing home.[8] Leigh portrays Schwarzenegger as obsessed with power and quotes him as saying, "I wanted to be part of the small percentage of people who were leaders, not the large mass of followers. I think it is because I saw leaders use 100% of their potential –I was always fascinated by people in control of other people."[8] Schwarzenegger has said that it was never his intention to enter politics, but he says, "I married into a political family. You get together with them and you hear about policy, about reaching out to help people. I was exposed to the idea of being a public servant and Eunice and Sargent Shriver became my heroes."[22] Eunice Kennedy Shriver was sister of John F. Kennedy, and mother-in-law to Schwarzenegger; Sargent Shriver is husband to Eunice and father-in-law to Schwarzenegger. He cannot run for president as he is not a natural born citizen of the United States. In The Simpsons Movie (2007), he is portrayed as the President, and in the Sylvester Stallone movie, Demolition Man (1993, ten years before his first run for political office), it is revealed that a constitutional amendment passed which allowed Schwarzenegger to run for President.[citation needed]
Schwarzenegger is a dual Austria/United States citizen.[72] He holds Austrian citizenship by birth and has held U.S. citizenship since becoming naturalized in 1983. Being Austrian and thus European, he was able to win the 2007 European Voice campaigner of the year award for taking action against climate change with the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and plans to introduce an emissions trading scheme with other US states and possibly with the EU.[73]
Because of his personal wealth from his acting career, Schwarzenegger did not accept his governor's salary of $175,000 per year.[74]
Schwarzenegger's endorsement in the Republican primary of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election was highly sought; despite being good friends with candidates Rudy Giuliani and Senator John McCain, Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 and early 2008. Giuliani dropped out of the Presidential race on January 30, 2008, largely because of a poor showing in Florida, and endorsed McCain. Later that night, Schwarzenegger was in the audience at a Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. The following day, he endorsed McCain, joking, "It's Rudy's fault!" (in reference to his friendships with both candidates and that he could not make up his mind). Schwarzenegger's endorsement was thought to be a boost for Senator McCain's campaign; both spoke about their concerns for the environment and economy.[75]
In its April 2010 report, Progressive ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington named Schwarzenegger one of 11 "worst governors" in the United States because of various ethics issues throughout Schwarzenegger's term as governor.[76][77]
Governor Schwarzenegger played a significant role in opposing Proposition 66, a proposed amendment of the Californian Three Strikes Law, in November 2004. This amendment would have required the third felony to be either violent or serious to mandate a 25-years-to-life sentence. In the last week before the ballot, Schwarzenegger launched an intensive campaign[78] against Proposition 66.[79] He stated that "it would release 26,000 dangerous criminals and rapists".
Schwarzenegger did not run for re-election in 2010.
Allegations of sexual misconduct[link]
During his initial campaign for governor, allegations of sexual and personal misconduct were raised against Schwarzenegger, dubbed "Gropegate".[80] Within the last five days before the election, news reports appeared in the Los Angeles Times recounting allegations of sexual misconduct from several individual women, six of whom eventually came forward with their personal stories.[81]
Three of the women claimed he had grabbed their breasts, a fourth said he placed his hand under her skirt on her buttock. A fifth woman claimed Schwarzenegger tried to take off her bathing suit in a hotel elevator, and the last said he pulled her onto his lap and asked her about a sex act.[80]
Schwarzenegger admitted that he has "behaved badly sometimes" and apologized, but also stated that "a lot of [what] you see in the stories is not true". This came after an interview in adult magazine Oui from 1977 surfaced, in which Schwarzenegger discussed attending sexual orgies and using substances such as marijuana.[82] Schwarzenegger is shown smoking a marijuana joint after winning Mr. Olympia in the 1975 documentary film Pumping Iron. In an interview with GQ magazine in October 2007, Schwarzenegger said, "[Marijuana] is not a drug. It's a leaf. My drug was pumping iron, trust me."[83] His spokesperson later said the comment was meant to be a joke.[83]
British television personality Anna Richardson settled a libel lawsuit in August 2006 against Schwarzenegger, his top aide, Sean Walsh, and his publicist, Sheryl Main.[84] A joint statement read: "The parties are content to put this matter behind them and are pleased that this legal dispute has now been settled."[84] Richardson claimed they tried to tarnish her reputation by dismissing her allegations that Schwarzenegger touched her breast during a press event for The 6th Day in London.[85] She claimed Walsh and Main libeled her in a Los Angeles Times article when they contended she encouraged his behavior.[84]
Citizenship[link]
In 2005, Peter Pilz, from the Austrian Green Party, demanded that parliament revoke Schwarzenegger's Austrian citizenship. This demand was based on Article 33 of the Austrian Citizenship Act that states: A citizen, who is in the public service of a foreign country, shall be deprived of his citizenship, if he heavily damages the reputation or the interests of the Austrian Republic.[72] Pilz claimed that Schwarzenegger's actions in support of the death penalty (prohibited in Austria under Protocol 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights) had indeed done damage to Austria's reputation. Schwarzenegger explained his actions by referring to the fact that his only duty as Governor of California was to prevent an error in the judicial system.
Environmental record[link]
On September 27, 2006 Schwarzenegger signed a bill creating the nation's first cap on greenhouse gas emissions. The law set new regulations on the amount of emissions utilities, refineries and manufacturing plants are allowed to release into the atmosphere. Schwarzenegger also signed a second global warming bill that prohibits large utilities and corporations in California from making long-term contracts with suppliers who do not meet the state's greenhouse gas emission standards. The two bills are part of a plan to reduce California's emissions by 25 percent to 1990s levels by 2020. In 2005, Schwarzenegger issued an executive order calling to reduce greenhouse gases to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.[86]
Schwarzenegger signed another executive order on October 17, 2006 allowing California to work with the Northeast's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. They plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by issuing a limited amount of carbon credits to each power plant in participating states. Any power plants that exceed emissions for the amount of carbon credits will have to purchase more credits to cover the difference. The plan is set to be in effect in 2009.[87] In addition to using his political power to fight global warming, the governor has taken steps at his home to reduce his personal carbon footprint. Schwarzenegger has adapted one of his Hummers to run on hydrogen and another to run on biofuels. He has also installed solar panels to heat his home.[88]
In respect of his contribution to the direction of the US motor industry, Schwarzenegger was invited to open the 2009 SAE World Congress in Detroit, on April 20, 2009.[89]
In 2011, Arnold Schwarzenegger founded the R20 Regions of Climate Action to develop a sustainable, low carbon economy.[90]
Electoral history[link]
| California Gubernatorial Recall Election 2003 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Republican | Arnold Schwarzenegger | 4,206,284 | 48.6 | ||
| Democratic | Cruz Bustamante | 2,724,874 | 31.5 | ||
| Republican | Tom McClintock | 1,161,287 | 13.5 | ||
| Green | Peter Miguel Camejo | 242,247 | 2.8 | ||
| California Gubernatorial Election 2006 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Republican | Arnold Schwarzenegger | 4,850,157 | 55.9 | +7.3 | |
| Democratic | Phil Angelides | 3,376,732 | 39.0 | ||
| Green | Peter Miguel Camejo | 205,995 | 2.3 | -0.5 | |
Business career[link]
Schwarzenegger has also had a highly successful business career.[8][22] Following his move to the United States, Schwarzenegger became a "prolific goal setter" and would write his objectives at the start of the year on index cards, like starting a mail order business or buying a new car – and succeed in doing so.[17] By the age of 30, Schwarzenegger was a millionaire, well before his career in Hollywood. His financial independence came from his success as a budding entrepreneur with a series of successful business ventures and investments.
Bricklaying business[link]
In 1968, Schwarzenegger and fellow bodybuilder Franco Columbu started a bricklaying business. The business flourished thanks to the pair's marketing savvy and an increased demand following the 1971 San Fernando earthquake.[91][92][66] Schwarzenegger and Columbu used profits from their bricklaying venture to start a mail order business, selling bodybuilding and fitness-related equipment and instructional tapes.[3][91]
Real estate investing[link]
Schwarzenegger rolled profits from the mail order business and his bodybuilding competition winnings into his first real estate investment venture: an apartment building he purchased for $10,000. He would later go on to invest in a number of real estate holding companies.[93][94]
Restaurant[link]
In 1992, Schwarzenegger and his wife opened a restaurant in Santa Monica called Schatzi On Main. Schatzi literally means "little treasure," colloquial for "honey" or "darling" in German. In 1998, he sold his restaurant.[95]
Planet Hollywood investment[link]
See also: Planet Hollywood
Schwarzenegger was a founding celebrity investor in the Planet Hollywood chain of international theme restaurants (modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe) along with Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone and Demi Moore. Schwarzenegger severed his financial ties with the business in early 2000.[96][97] Schwarzenegger said the company had not had the success he had hoped for, claiming he wanted to focus his attention on "new US global business ventures" and his movie career.[96]
Other ventures and investments[link]
He also invested in a shopping mall in Columbus, Ohio. He has talked about some of those who have helped him over the years in business: "I couldn't have learned about business without a parade of teachers guiding me... from Milton Friedman to Donald Trump... and now, Les Wexner and Warren Buffett. I even learned a thing or two from Planet Hollywood, such as when to get out! And I did!"[15] He has significant ownership in Dimensional Fund Advisors, an investment firm.[98]
Personal life[link]
Early love life[link]
In 1969, Schwarzenegger met Barbara Outland (later Barbara Outland Baker), an English teacher he lived with until 1974.[99] Schwarzenegger talked about Barbara in his memoir in 1977: "Basically it came down to this: she was a well-balanced woman who wanted an ordinary, solid life, and I was not a well-balanced man, and hated the very idea of ordinary life."[99] Baker has described Schwarzenegger as "[a] joyful personality, totally charismatic, adventurous, and athletic" but claims towards the end of the relationship he became "insufferable – classically conceited – the world revolved around him".[100] Baker published her memoir in 2006, entitled Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak.[101] Although Baker, at times, painted an unflattering portrait of her former lover, Schwarzenegger actually contributed to the tell-all book with a foreword, and also met with Baker for three hours.[101] Baker claims, for example, that she only learned of his being unfaithful after they split, and talks of a turbulent and passionate love life.[101] Schwarzenegger has made it clear that their respective recollection of events can differ.[101] The couple first met six to eight months after his arrival in the U.S—their first date was watching the first Apollo Moon landing on television.[17] They shared an apartment in Santa Monica for three and a half years, and having little money, would visit the beach all day, or have barbecues in the back yard.[17] Although Baker claims that when she first met him, he had "little understanding of polite society" and she found him a turn-off, she says, "He's as much a self-made man as it's possible to be—he never got encouragement from his parents, his family, his brother. He just had this huge determination to prove himself, and that was very attractive ... I'll go to my grave knowing Arnold loved me."[17]
Schwarzenegger met his next paramour, Sue Moray, a Beverly Hills hairdresser's assistant, on Venice Beach in July 1977. According to Moray, the couple led an open relationship: "We were faithful when we were both in LA ... but when he was out of town, we were free to do whatever we wanted."[9] Schwarzenegger met Maria Shriver at the Robert F. Kennedy Tennis Tournament in August 1977, and went on to have a relationship with both women until August 1978, when Moray (who knew of his relationship with Shriver) issued an ultimatum.[9]
Marriage and family[link]
On April 26, 1986, Schwarzenegger married television journalist Maria Shriver, niece of President John F. Kennedy, in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. John Baptist Riordan performed the ceremony at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church.[102] They have four children: Katherine Eunice Shriver Schwarzenegger (born December 13, 1989 in Los Angeles); Christina Maria Aurelia Schwarzenegger (born July 23, 1991 in Los Angeles);[103] Patrick Schwarzenegger (born September 18, 1993 in Los Angeles);[104] and Christopher Sargent Shriver Schwarzenegger (born September 27, 1997 in Los Angeles).[105] Schwarzenegger lives in a 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m2) home in Brentwood.[106][107] The divorcing couple currently own vacation homes in Sun Valley, Idaho and Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.[108] They attended St. Monica's Catholic Church.[109]
Son in serious accident[link]
Schwarzenegger's 13-year-old son Christopher Schwarzenegger was seriously injured in a boogie-boarding accident in Malibu, on July 17, 2011. In a joint statement, Schwarzenegger and estranged wife Shriver described it as "scary," and that "he is expected to make a full recovery." Christopher had been in intensive care after suffering a collapsed lung and broken bones in the accident.[110]
Marital separation[link]
On May 9, 2011, Shriver and Schwarzenegger separated after 25 years of marriage, with Shriver moving out of the couple's Brentwood mansion.[111][112][113] On May 16, 2011, the Los Angeles Times revealed that Schwarzenegger had fathered a son more than fourteen years earlier with an employee in their household, Mildred Patricia 'Patty' Baena.[114][115][116] "After leaving the governor's office I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago," Schwarzenegger said in a statement issued to The Times. In the statement, Schwarzenegger did not mention that he had confessed to his wife only after Shriver had confronted him with the information, which she had done after confirming with the housekeeper what she had suspected about the child.[117]
Fifty-year-old Baena, of Guatemalan origin, was employed by the family for 20 years and retired in January.[118] The pregnant Baena was working in the home while Shriver was pregnant with the youngest of the couple’s four children.[119] Baena's son with Schwarzenegger, Joseph,[120] was born on October 2, 1997;[121] Shriver gave birth to Christopher on September 27, 1997.[122] Schwarzenegger found ways to spend time with this child: in one instance, in 1998, Shriver and Schwarzenegger's children unexpectedly accompanied Schwarzenegger to the lovechild's baptism;[123] and he was photographed teaching the boy how to play golf and swinging him playfully above his head.[124] Despite Schwarzenegger's interactions with the child, the boy was never told that Schwarzenegger was his father, and he was unaware of the fact until it was revealed by the press.[125] Schwarzenegger has taken financial responsibility for the child "from the start and continued to provide support."[126] KNX 1070 radio reported that he bought a new, four-bedroom house, with a pool, in Bakersfield, about 112 miles (180 km) north of Los Angeles, in 2010 for Baena and their son.[127] Baena separated from her husband, Rogelio, in 1997, a few months after Joseph's birth, and divorced him in 2008.[128] Baena's ex-husband says that the child's birth certificate was falsified and that he plans to sue Schwarzenegger and his ex-wife for engaging in conspiracy to falsify a public document, a serious crime in California.[129]
Schwarzenegger has consulted an attorney, Bob Kaufman. Kaufman has earlier handled divorce cases for celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.[130][131] Schwarzenegger will keep the Brentwood home as part of their divorce settlement and Shriver has purchased a new home nearby so that the children may travel easily between their parents' homes. They will share custody of the two minor children.[132] Schwarzenegger came under fire after the initial petition did not include spousal support and a reimbursement of attorney's fees.[59] However, he claims this was not intentional and that he signed the initial documents without having properly read them.[59] Schwarzenegger has filed amended divorce papers remedying this.[59][133]
In the aftermath of Schwarzenegger's infidelity scandal, actress Brigitte Nielsen came forward and stated that she too had an affair with Schwarzenegger while he was in a relationship with Shriver,[134] saying, "Maybe I wouldn't have got into it if he said 'I'm going to marry Maria' and this is dead serious, but he didn't, and our affair carried on."[134]
Accidents and injuries[link]
Schwarzenegger was born with a bicuspid aortic valve, an aortic valve with only two leaflets (a normal aortic valve has three leaflets).[135][136] Schwarzenegger opted in 1997 for a replacement heart valve made of his own transplanted tissue; medical experts predicted he would require heart valve replacement surgery in the following two to eight years as his valve would progressively degrade. Schwarzenegger apparently opted against a mechanical valve, the only permanent solution available at the time of his surgery, because it would have sharply limited his physical activity and capacity to exercise.[137]
On December 9, 2001, he broke six ribs and was hospitalized for four days after a motorcycle crash in Los Angeles.[138]
Schwarzenegger saved a drowning man's life in 2004 while on vacation in Hawaii by swimming out and bringing him back to shore.[139]
On January 8, 2006, while Schwarzenegger was riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle in Los Angeles, with his son Patrick in the sidecar, another driver backed into the street he was riding on, causing him and his son to collide with the car at a low speed. While his son and the other driver were unharmed, the governor sustained a minor injury to his lip, requiring 15 stitches. "No citations were issued", said Officer Jason Lee, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman.[140] Schwarzenegger did not obtain his motorcycle license until July 3, 2006.[141]
Schwarzenegger tripped over his ski pole and broke his right femur while skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho, with his family on December 23, 2006.[142] On December 26, 2006, he underwent a 90-minute operation in which cables and screws were used to wire the broken bone back together. He was released from the St. John's Health Center on December 30, 2006.[143]
Schwarzenegger's private jet made an emergency landing at Van Nuys Airport on June 19, 2009, after the pilot reported smoke coming from the cockpit, according to a statement released by the governor's press secretary. No one was harmed in the incident.[144]
Net worth[link]
See also: List of richest American politicians
Schwarzenegger's net worth has been conservatively estimated at $100–$200 million.[145] But with his recent split from his wife, Maria Shriver in 2011, it has been estimated that his net worth has been hovering around the $400 million mark and even as high as $800 million, based on tax returns he filed in 2006.[146][147] Over the years as an investor, he invested his bodybuilding and movie earnings in an array of stocks, bonds, privately controlled companies, and real estate holdings worldwide, so a more accurate estimation of his net worth is difficult to calculate, particularly in light of declining real estate values owing to economic recessions in the United States and Europe. In June 1997, Schwarzenegger spent $38 million of his own money on a private Gulfstream Jet.[148] Schwarzenegger once said of his fortune, "Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."[8] He has also stated, "I've made many millions as a businessman many times over."[15]
Activism[link]
He bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use in 1992, a model so large, 6,300 lb (2,900 kg) and 7 feet (2.1 m) wide, that it is classified as a large truck and U.S. fuel economy regulations do not apply to it. During the Gubernatorial Recall campaign he announced that he would convert one of his Hummers to burn hydrogen. The conversion was reported to have cost about US$21,000. After the election, he signed an executive order to jump-start the building of hydrogen refueling plants called the California Hydrogen Highway Network, and gained a U.S. Department of Energy grant to help pay for its projected US$91,000,000 cost.[149] California took delivery of the first H2H (Hydrogen Hummer) in October 2004.[150]
Arnold Schwarzenegger has been involved with the Special Olympics for many years after they founded by his ex-mother-in-law, Eunice Kennedy Shriver.[151] In 2007, Schwarzenegger was the official spokesperson for the Special Olympics which were held in Shanghai, China.[152] Schwarzenegger believes that quality school opportunities should be made available to children who might not normally be able to access them.[153] In 1995, he founded the Inner City Games Foundation (ICG) which provides cultural, educational and community enrichment programming to youth.[153] ICG is active in 15 cities around the country and serves over 250,000 children in over 400 schools countrywide.[153] He has also been involved with After-School All-Stars, and founded the Los Angeles branch in 2002.[154] ASAS is an after school program provider, educating youth about health, fitness and nutrition.
On February 12, 2010, Schwarzenegger took part in the Vancouver Olympic Torch relay. He handed off the flame to the next runner, Sebastian Coe.[155]
Honors[link]
Schwarzenegger's home town of Graz had its soccer stadium named The Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadium in his honor. It is the home of both Grazer AK and Sturm Graz. After the Stanley Williams execution and street protests in Schwarzenegger's hometown, several local politicians began a campaign to remove his name from the stadium. In response, Schwarzenegger said "to spare the responsible politicians of the city of Graz further concern, I withdraw from them as of this day the right to use my name in association with the Liebenau Stadium", and set a deadline of two days to remove his name. Graz officials removed Schwarzenegger's name from the stadium in December 2005.[156] It is now officially titled UPC-Arena.
The Sun Valley Resort has a short ski trail called Arnold's Run, named after Schwarzenegger in 2001.[157] The trail is categorized as a black diamond, or most difficult, for its terrain.
People in Thal, Austria, celebrated Schwarzenegger's 60th birthday by throwing a party. Officials proclaimed "A Day for Arnold" on July 30, 2007. The mayor sent Schwarzenegger the enameled sign, Thal 145, the number of the house where Schwarzenegger was born, declaring "This belongs to him. No one here will ever be assigned that number again".[158]
Bibliography[link]
- Schwarzenegger, Arnold (1977). Arnold: Developing a Mr. Universe Physique. Schwarzenegger.
- – with Douglas Kent Hall (1977). Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-22879-8.
- – with Douglas Kent Hall (1979). Arnold's Bodyshaping for Women. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-24301-2.
- – with Bill Dobbins (1981). Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-25613-5.
- – with Bill Dobbins (1998). The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding (rev. ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-84374-2.
- Andrews, Nigel (2003). True Myths: The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger: From Pumping Iron to Governor of California (rev. ed.). New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-58234-465-2.
- Blitz, Michael; and Louise Krasniewicz (2004). Why Arnold Matters: The Rise of a Cultural Icon. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-03752-0.
- Borowitz, Andy (2004). Governor Arnold: A Photodiary of His First 100 Days in Office. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-6266-8.
- Brandon, Karen (2004). Arnold Schwarzenegger. San Diego: Lucent Books. ISBN 978-1-59018-539-1.
- Saunders, Dave (2008). "Arnie": Schwarzenegger and the Movies. London: I. B. Tauris.
- Sexton, Colleen A. (2005). Arnold Schwarzenegger. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications. ISBN 978-0-8225-1634-7.
- Zannos, Susan (2000). Arnold Schwarzenegger. Childs, Md.: Mitchell Lane. ISBN 978-1-883845-95-7.
- Schwarzenegger, Arnold (2012). Total Recall. United States: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-84983-971-6.
Interviews[link]
- Interview in Oui magazine, August 1977 at thesmokinggun.com
- Excerpts from Time Out (London) interview, 1977 at time.com
- Schwarzenegger Interview on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
Film[link]
- Footage of Arnold Schwarzenegger winning Mr Universe, 1969
- "Arnold Schwarzenegger – Hollywood Hero" DVD ~ Todd Baker
- "Pumping Iron" (25th Anniversary Special Edition) DVD ~ George Butler
- Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Internet Movie Database
References[link]
- ^ "Biography for Arnold Schwarzenegger". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216/bio. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Kurtzman, Laura (January 5, 2007). "Schwarzenegger Sworn in for Second Term". The Washington Post. Associated Press. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/05/AR2007010501386.html. Retrieved April 23, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Time of His Life". Schwarzenegger.com. http://schwarzenegger.com. Retrieved April 18, 2007.
- ^ a b "Arnie: 'I was abused as child'". The Scotsman (Edinburgh). August 4, 2004. http://news.scotsman.com/arnoldschwarzenegger/Arnie-I-was-abused-as.2551492.jp. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Ask Arnold". Schwarzenegger.com. 2000. http://www.schwarzenegger.com/en/news/askarnold/news_askarnold_eng_legacy_444.asp?sec=news&subsec=askarnold. Retrieved April 18, 2008. [dead link]
- ^ a b c d Andrews, Nigel (2003). True Myths of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-58234-465-2.
- ^ Herman, Eric (August 11, 2003). "Ah-nold in cross hairs Rivals blast Calif. front-runner". Daily News (New York). http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2003/08/11/2003-08-11__ah-nold_in_cross_hairs__riv.html. Retrieved September 14, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f Brooks, Xan (August 8, 2003). "The Governator". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2003/aug/08/usa.politicsandthearts. Retrieved April 19, 2007.
- ^ a b c d e f g Leigh, Wendy (1990). Arnold: An Unauthorized Biography. Pelham. ISBN 978-0-7207-1997-0.
- ^ "Arnold Schwarzenegger: Mr. Olympia – 1970–1975, 1980". BodyBuild.com. http://www.bodybuildbid.com/articles/mrolympia/arnold-schwarzenegger.html. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Records: Arnold's father was member of Nazi storm troops". USA Today. August 24, 2003. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2003-08-24-arnold-father_x.htm.
- ^ a b c d Katz, Ephraim (2006). Film Encyclopedia. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-074214-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Profile: Arnold Schwarzenegger". BBC. August 31, 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3131155.stm. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Mr. Everything". Schwarzenegger.com. http://www.schwarzenegger.com/en/athlete/mreverything/index.asp?sec=athlete&subsec=mreverything. Retrieved April 18, 2008. [dead link]
- ^ a b c d Schwarzenegger, Arnold (October 3, 2001). "ARNOLD'S "PERSPECTIVES"". Schwarzenegger.com. Archived from the original on May 23, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080523204808/http%3A//www.schwarzenegger.com/en/life/hiswords/words_en_sac_perspectives.asp%3Fsec%3Dlife%26subsec%3Dhiswords. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Interview in Pumping Iron – 25th Anniversary Edition DVD extras
- ^ a b c d e Poole, Oliver (October 6, 2003). "The girl who can't escape Arnie". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/10/02/bfarni02.xml&page=1. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Arnie: I was abused as a child". Daily Mail (London). August 4, 2004. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-312729/Arnie-I-abused-child.html. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ McIntosh, Lindsay (October 2, 2008). "Wag Bennett bodybuilder who helped Arnold Schwarzenegger". The Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4862637.ece.
- ^ Staff, Arnold Schwarzenegger: Made in Britain, British Film Institute. Retrieved October 3, 2008. "Wag and Dianne Bennett, an East End couple who gave Arnie a home for three years,"
- ^ "A tribute by Arnold Schwarzenegger". Regpark.net. http://www.regpark.net/. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
- ^ a b c d Bradley, Bill (November 20, 2002). "Mr. California". LA Weekly. http://www.laweekly.com/2002-11-28/news/mr-california/. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Jennings, Randy (2003, October 21). Ric Drasin: Arnold's lifting partner! The Arnold Fans Website. Retrieved on December 16, 2009.
- ^ Bland, Siskind (September 4, 2007). "Schwarzenegger May Have Violated Terms Of Non-Immigrant Visa". VISALAW.COM. http://www.visalaw.com/03sep4/15sep403.html. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Campus Connection: Superior list of famous alumni?". Wisconsin State Journal. November 11, 2009. http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/education/campus_connection/article_d8646d66-ce45-11de-ba14-001cc4c03286.html. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
- ^ "Mr. Everything". Schwarzenegger.com. http://www.schwarzenegger.com/en/athlete/mreverything/index.asp?sec=athlete&subsec=mreverything. Retrieved December 29, 2009. [dead link]
- ^ http://www.questformuscle.com/articles/arnoldschwarzenegger.html
- ^ a b c d e f g h http://www.gmv.com.au/default.asp?pageid=HOME&template=CONTENT&sid=283
- ^ "Ask Arnold Training Seminar- Arnold Schwarzenegger Talks Bodybuilding Advice – Part 1". Youtube. March 6, 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPEVHihgmHc&feature=related. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ Farrey, Tom. "Conan the Politician". ESPN. http://espn.go.com/columns/farrey_tom/1655597.html. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Theunissen, Steve. "Arnold & Steroids: Truth Revealed". get2net. Archived from the original on October 8, 2003. http://web.archive.org/web/20031008172601/http://hjem.get2net.dk/JamesBond/www/artikler/steroidemisbrug/arnoldandsteroids.htm. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger Wins German Lawsuit". Encyclopedia.com. UPI. December 1, 1999. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-24150868.html. Retrieved December 6, 2009.
- ^ "Arnie settles $50m libel case". BBC News. December 22, 1999. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/574902.stm. Retrieved December 6, 2009.
- ^ a b "Arnold Schwarzenegger Height, Schwarzenegger's". celebheights.com. http://www.celebheights.com/s/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-177.html. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger Measured". ArnoldHeight. http://www.arnoldheight.com/article5.html. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
- ^ Andrews, N: "True Myths: The life and times of Arnold Schwarzenegger," page 157. Bloomsbury, 2003
- ^ Miner, Michael (September 23, 2003). "Poor Recall". Chicago Reader. http://www.chicagoreader.com/hottype/2003/030919_1.html. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Salladay, Robert (October 23, 2003). "Incoming governor's mantra: 'Action'". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/10/23/MNG2C2HG8R1.DTL. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Weintraub, Daniel. "Schwarzenegger Blinked" (PDF). National Conference of State Legislators. https://www.ncsl.org/programs/pubs/slmag/2004/04SLDec_Schwarzenegger.pdf. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "The Governator II: At first it seemed like a bad joke". Arnoldwatch.org. October 7, 2004. http://www.arnoldwatch.org/articles/articles_000488.php3. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
- ^ "Arnold Height". ArnoldHeight. http://www.arnoldheight.com.
- ^ "The Smoking Gun: Archive". TheSmokingGun. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/arnoldpump1.html. Retrieved May 11, 2007.
- ^ a b Collis, Clark. "EMPIRE ESSAY: The Terminator". Empire magazine. http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=132648. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Leamer, Laurence (2005). Fantastic: The life of Arnold Schwarzenegger. St Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-33338-6.
- ^ "Arnold wants 'Terminator' statue killed". Killoggs. September 27, 2002. http://www.killoggs.com/news/?news=609. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Arnold downplays a Terminator Salvation cameo". SCI FI Wire. http://scifiwire.com/2009/03/arnold-confirms-but-downp.php. Retrieved March 11, 2009.
- ^ "Arnold Schwarzenegger (Virtually) Back in Terminator Salvation". TVGuide.com. http://movies.tvguide.com/Movie-News/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Terminator-1005894.aspx. Retrieved May 8, 2009.
- ^ "McG Talks Terminator Salvation". reelzchannel.com. http://www.reelzchannel.com/person/176340/mcg. Retrieved May 11, 2009.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger: "Ich lese gerade drei Drehbücher" – "Krone"-Interview – Welt". krone.at. January 16, 2011. http://www.krone.at/Welt/Schwarzenegger_Ich_lese_gerade_drei_Drehbuecher-Krone-Interview-Story-240860. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
- ^ "TheArnoldFans.com". TheArnoldFans.com. January 16, 2011. http://www.thearnoldfans.com/news/1741.html. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
- ^ "TheArnoldFans.com". TheArnoldFans.com. March 6, 2011. http://www.thearnoldfans.com/news/1767.html. Retrieved April 3, 2011.
- ^ Benjamin Svetkey. "Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as 'The Governator'". Entertainment Weekly. http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/03/30/arnold-schwarzenegger-the-governator-exclusive. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
- ^ Zakarin, Jordan (March 31, 2011). "'The Governator': Arnold Schwarzenegger Developing New Cartoon, Comic Book". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/the-governator-arnold-schwarzenegger_n_842921.html. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
- ^ "Arnold Schwarzenegger to make superhero show". BBC. March 31, 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12918406.
- ^ Melissa Maerz. "Arnold Schwarzenegger teams with Stan Lee on 'The Governator'". Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/03/arnold-schwarzenegger-teams-up-with-stan-lee-on-cartoon-series-the-governator.html.
- ^ Sara Hammel. "Arnold Schwarzenegger Halts All Acting Projects – Including Terminator". People. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20496056,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontent. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
- ^ "Simply The Best 7 Days A Week :: News :: Arnold Schwarzenegger in double bill for £24m". Daily Star. May 29, 2011. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/193265/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-in-double-bill-for-24m/. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ Finke, Nikki. "Arnold Books ‘Last Stand’: Studio To Test Schwarzenegger’s Post-Scandal Popularity –". Deadline.com. http://www.deadline.com/2011/07/arnold-schwarzenegger-books-last-stand-western-will-test-his-post-scandal-popularity/. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Arnold Schwarzenegger to File Revised Divorce Papers, Not Denying Spousal Support". ABC News. July 23, 2011. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/arnold-schwarzenegger-file-revised-divorce-papers-denying-spousal/story?id=14142207. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ Fleming, Mike. "‘Expendables 2′ Sets Action Dream Trio: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis Join Sly Stallone". Deadline. http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/expendables-2-sets-action-dream-trio-arnold-schwarzenegger-bruce-willis-join-sly-stallone/. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger goes supernatural (again) for next movie". http://blastr.com/2011/12/schwarzenegger-goes-super.php?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger: No country more welcoming than the USA". CNN. August 31, 2004. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/31/gop.schwarzenegger.transcript/. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Noonan, Peggy (October 14, 2003). What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era. New York: Random House. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-8129-6989-4.
- ^ White, Deborah (January 14, 2006). "Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's Newest Democrat". http://usliberals.about.com/b/2006/01/14/arnold-schwarzenegger-californias-newest-democrat.htm. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ a b c "Arnold cast as Governor?". Schwarzenegger.com. October 4, 1999. Archived from the original on May 23, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080523203946/http%3A//www.schwarzenegger.com/news.asp%3Fid%3D90. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ a b Lewis, Michael (2011-11). "California and Bust". Vanity Fair. http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/11/michael-lewis-201111#gotopage1. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
- ^ Grey, Barry (November 6, 2003). "First debate in California recall election: Snapshot of a political system in crisis". wsws.org. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/sep2003/cali-s06.shtml. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Nicholas, Peter (July 18, 2004). "Schwarzenegger deems opponents 'girlie-men'". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/18/MNGH57NKAF1.DTL. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "General Election – Governor". California Secretary of State. Archived from the original on February 19, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070219111658/http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/gov/00.htm. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Pomfret, John (December 23, 2006). "Schwarzenegger Remakes Himself as Environmentalist". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/22/AR2006122201476.html. Retrieved July 13, 2008.
- ^ Marinucci, Carla (March 22, 2009). "Predictions for Schwarzenegger's Next Big Role". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/03/22/MNJH16KC5G.DTL. Retrieved March 23, 2009.
- ^ a b "BBC News: Schwarzenegger 'damages Austria'". BBC News. January 22, 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4198633.stm. Retrieved April 18, 2008. "He said Mr Schwarzenegger, who has dual nationality..."
- ^ "Schwarzenegger wins European Voice campaigner of the year award". European Voice. November 27, 2007. http://www.europeanvoice.com/page/the-evawards-europeans-of-the-year/784.aspx. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Nelson, Soraya (April 15, 2006). "News: Schwarzenegger releases tax returns". OCRegister.com. http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/atoz/article_1102616.php. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Arnold opens 'flood' of McCain endorsements". The Baltimore Sun. http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/01/arnold_opens_flood_of_mccain_e.html. Retrieved May 7, 2008.
- ^ Vogel, Ed (April 21, 2010). "Gibbons named on list of worst governors". Las Vegas Review-Journal. http://www.lvrj.com/news/gibbons-named-on-list-of-worst-governors-91723774.html. Retrieved May 5, 2010
- ^ "Crew's Worst Governors". Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. http://www.citizensforethics.org/worstgovernors#Gibbons. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
- ^ April 7, 2008 (April 7, 2008). "TV-commercial of Arnold Schwarzenegger against Proposition 66". Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F6PBldQxZc&feature=related. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
- ^ "Megan Garvey and Robert Salladay "Prop. 66 in Tough Fight", LAtimes.com". Los Angeles Times. November 1, 2004. http://articles.latimes.com/2004/nov/01/local/me-campaign1. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
- ^ a b "Sex scandal draws Arnie apology". BBC. March 10, 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3159122.stm. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger sorry for behaving 'badly' toward women". CNN. October 3, 2003. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/02/recall.schwarzenegger/index.html. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger's Sex Talk". The Smoking Gun. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/arnoldinter1.html. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ a b "Governor says marijuana is not a drug, 'it's a leaf'". Los Angeles Times. October 29, 2007. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/29/local/me-arnold29.
- ^ a b c "Schwarzenegger libel 'settled'". BBC. August 26, 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/5288194.stm. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "UK judge allows Arnie libel case". BBC. March 23, 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4375679.stm. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Young, Samantha (September 27, 2006). "Schwarzenegger Signs Global Warming Bill". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092700174.html. Retrieved May 15, 2008.
- ^ Matthews, Karen (October 17, 2006). "Cal Joins Northeast Global Warming Fight". Fox News. http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Oct17/0,4670,GlobalWarmingSchwarzenegger,00.html. Retrieved May 15, 2008.
- ^ "The Governator's green agenda" Fortune Magazine. March 23, 2007. Accessed May 15, 2008.
- ^ "SAE 2009 World Congress Special Opening Ceremonies to Feature Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger" SAE. March 10, 2009. Retrieved April 6, 2009.
- ^ "The Global Journal". A New Obsession. http://theglobaljournal.net/article/view/410/. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
- ^ a b Morgan, Kaya. "Real Life Action Hero". Millionaire Magazine. http://www.millionaire.com/interviews_schwarzenegger.htm. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ ""Working" Out". Schwarzenegger.com. Archived from the original on May 23, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080523204758/http%3A//www.schwarzenegger.com/en/life/didyouknow/life_didyouknow_eng_legacy_257.asp%3Fsec%3Dlife%26subsec%3Ddidyouknow. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Williams, Lance (August 10, 2003). "Schwarzenegger reveals pumped-up finances". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/10/ARNOLD.TMP. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Fleschner, Malcolm. "The Best Salesman in America?". Selling Power. Archived from the original on February 24, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080224112746/http://www.sellingpower.com/article/display.asp?aid=SP4182687. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "The foundation for taxpayer and consumer rights is in the wrong in its junk fax lawsuit where it falsely blames Arnold Schwarzenegger for faxes sent to promote a restaurant he doesn't own". Schwarzenegger.com. Archived from the original on May 23, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080523204836/http%3A//www.schwarzenegger.com/en/news/uptotheminute/news_uptotheminute_eng_legacy_16.asp%3Fsec%3Dnews%26subsec%3Duptotheminute. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ a b "Arnie's Planet Hollywood split". BBC. January 26, 2000. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/619317.stm. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
- ^ Paul Lieberman (January 26, 2000). "It's Hasta la Vista, Planet Hollywood". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jan/26/business/fi-57832. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
- ^ Weinraub, Bernard (August 17, 2003). "Schwarzenegger's Next Goal On Dogged, Ambitious Path". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E5D81230F934A2575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ a b "Arnie's ex-girlfriend pens memoir". BBC. September 9, 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/3092740.stm. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Williams, Lance (September 15, 2003). "Actor's old flame says he's a great guy". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/15/MN272943.DTL. Retrieved April 19, 2007.
- ^ a b c d Elsworth, Catherine (September 14, 2006). "Arnie puts his weight behind ex-lover's tell-all memoir". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1528857/Arnie-puts-his-weight-behind-ex-lover%27s-tell-all-memoir.html. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Maria Owings Shriver Wed To Arnold Schwarzenegger". The New York Times. April 27, 1986. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE3DF103DF934A15757C0A960948260. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Pace, Eric (July 24, 1991). "Chronicle". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0DD1E3DF937A15754C0A967958260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fS%2fSchwarzenegger%2c%20Arnold. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Brozan, Nadine (September 21, 1993). "Chronicle". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DB1430F932A1575AC0A965958260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fS%2fShriver%2c%20Maria. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Brozan, Nadine (September 30, 1997). "Chronicle". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E3D8103AF933A0575AC0A961958260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fS%2fShriver%2c%20Maria. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Schiffman, Betsy (June 27, 2003). "Next Stop – Governor's Mansion?". Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/27/cx_bs_0627movers.html. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Lacayo, Richard (August 10, 2003). "The Mind Behind the Muscles". Time. http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,474589,00.html. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Dunteman, Dayna (May 2004). "Catching Up With Maria Shriver". Sacramento Magazine. http://www.sacmag.com/media/Sacramento-Magazine/May-2004/Catching-Up-With-Maria-Shriver/. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Maria Shriver Ends Her Silence On Husband's Campaign". NBC. September 8, 2003. http://www.knbc.com/politics/2463270/detail.html. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Agence France-Presse. "Arnie's son injured in 'scary' surfing accident". ABS-CBN News. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/07/23/11/arnies-son-injured-scary-surfing-accident. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ Mark Z. Barabak (May 9, 2011). "Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver announce separation". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-mew-arnold-maria-separate-20010510,0,2542211.story?track=rss.
- ^ Hendrix, Steve (May 10, 2011). "Arnold Schwarzenegger and wife of 25 years, Maria Shriver, say they’re separating". Washington Post. Associated Press. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/arnold-schwarzenegger-and-wife-of-25-years-maria-shriver-say-theyre-separating/2011/05/10/AF16qwdG_story.html.
- ^ Dan Whitcomb (May 10, 2011). "Arnold Schwarzenegger, wife Maria Shriver separate". Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/10/us-schwarzenegger-idUSTRE7490PP20110510.
- ^ Nancy Dillon (May 17, 2011). "Mildred 'Patty' Baena, 50, identified as the mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger's out of wedlock child: reports". NYDailyNews (New York). http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/05/17/2011-05-17_mildred_baena_50_identified_as_mother_of_arnold_schwarzeneggers_love_child_tmz_r.html?r=news/politics. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger Fathered Child With Household Staff Member". Fox. May 17, 2011. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/17/report-schwarzenegger-fathered-child-household-employee.
- ^ "Mildred Patricia Baena, Mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Out of Wedlock Child Revealed (PHOTOS)". International Business Times. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/147401/20110518/mildred-patricia-baena-mother-of-arnold-schwarzenegger-s-out-of-wedlock-child-revealed-photos.htm. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
- ^ "How Maria found out: Arnie's wife reportedly confronted lover about child". Sydney Morning Herald. May 20, 2011. http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/people/how-maria-found-out-arnies-wife-reportedly-confronted-lover-about-child-20110520-1evji.html?from=smh_sb.
- ^ Barabak, Mark Z.; Kim, Victoria (May 17, 2011). "Schwarzenegger fathered a with child his mistress, longtime member of the household staff". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-0517-arnold-20110517,0,312678.story.
- ^ Nagourney, Adam; Steinhauer, Jennifer (May 17, 2011). "Schwarzenegger Whispers Become an Admission". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/us/18schwarzenegger.html?pagewanted=2&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB.
- ^ "Arnie 'Bought Home For Love Child And Mum'". Sky. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Bought-A-200K-House-For-His-Ex-Housekeeper-And-Their-Teenage-Son-Say-Reports/Article/201105315995018?lpos=Showbiz_News_Third_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region__3.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger's son with housekeeper born days after Shriver gave birth". Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-0518-cnn-arnold-child,0,7850501.story.
- ^ Alan Duke (May 19, 2011). "Arnold Schwarzenegger's two sons born days apart". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/18/california.schwarzenegger/index.html?iref=obnetwork.
- ^ "Maria Shriver Was at Christening of Husband Arnold Schwarzenegger's Love Child". Fox News. May 26, 2011. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/05/26/maria-shriver-christening-husband-arnold-schwarzeneggers-love-child/. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
- ^ "Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife attended his secret lovechild's christening". Fox News. May 26, 2011. http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/entertainment/arnold-schwarzeneggers-wife-attended-his-secret-lovechilds-christening-25-ncx-20110526. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
- ^ Selim Algar & Todd Venezia (May 26, 2011). "Housekeeper's son never knew Arnold was his dad". New York Post. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/kindergarten_pop_mystery_3H4kdL54TfJRm5plyP6PfL#ixzz1MzdOb09J. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger: I fathered a secret child". MSNBC. May 17, 2011. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43057177/ns/us_news-life/t/schwarzenegger-i-fathered-secret-child/. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger Reportedly Fired Housekeeper 4 Weeks Ago". CBS. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/05/18/schwarzenegger-reportedly-bought-housekeeper-4-bedroom-home. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
- ^ "Ex-husband of Schwarzenegger's mistress speaks out". Express.co.uk. May 25, 2011. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/248741/Ex-husband-of-Schwarzenegger-mistress-speaks-out. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ Ex-husband of Schwarzenegger's lover plans to sue (AFP) May 29, 2011
- ^ "Legal News Headlines". Research.lawyers.com. http://research.lawyers.com/news-headline/Likely-course-divorce--Shrivers-hire-of-powerhouse-lawyer-doesnt-bode-well-for-marriage-l:1421379567.html?method=rss. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ "Arnold Schwarzenegger Officially Hires Attorney Bob Kaufman, Hammers Out Divorce Deets with Maria Shriver". TMZ.com. http://www.tmz.com/2011/06/01/arnold-schwarzenegger-officially-hires-divorce-lawyer-bob-kaufman-maria-shriver-laura-wasser-scandal-love-child-mildred-patty-baena/. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ Reich, Ashley (7/8/11). "Schwarzenegger-Shriver Divorce: Settlement Decides Who Gets House, Kids". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/08/schwarzenegger-shriver-divorce_n_893470.html.
- ^ "Ministry of Gossip". Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/07/christopher-schwarzenegger-maria-shriver-arnold.html. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
- ^ a b Zervos, Cassie (June 4, 2011). "Love rat Arnold Schwarzenegger cheated with me: Brigitte Nielsen". Herald Sun. Australia. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/love-rat-arnold-arnold-schwarzenegger-cheated-with-me-brigitte-nielsen/story-e6frf7lf-1226069058271. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ "Surgery Leaves Star Undimmed". The Free Library (Farlex). April 18, 1997. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NEWS+LITE+:+SURGERY+LEAVES+STAR+UNDIMMED-a083864140. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ^ Starnes, Dr. Vaughn A. (March 8, 2001). "Renowned Cardiac Surgeon Proclaims Medical "Facts" In Article "Represent No Facts At All"". Archived from the original on May 23, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080523203941/http%3A//www.schwarzenegger.com/en/news/uptotheminute/news_uptotheminute_eng_legacy_18.asp%3Fsec%3Dnews%26subsec%3Duptotheminute. Retrieved March 3, 2009.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger Has Elective Heart Surgery". The New York Times. April 18, 1997. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E6D9113FF93BA25757C0A961958260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fS%2fSchwarzenegger%2c%20Arnold. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger, son get in motorcycle accident". USA Today. Associated Press. January 9, 2006. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-01-09-schwarzenegger-accident_x.htm. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Movie Heroes to the (Real-Life) Rescue!". Netscape celebrity. April 10, 2004. http://channels.isp.netscape.com/celebrity/becksmith.jsp?p=bsf_heroesrescue. Retrieved July 24, 2010.
- ^ "No Charges Against Schwarzenegger". http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10811025/. Retrieved July 13, 2008.
- ^ Navarro, Mireya (July 7, 2006). "Schwarzenegger Finally Gets a License". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/us/07arnold.html?_r=2&oref=slogin. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
- ^ "Calif. Gov. Schwarzenegger Breaks Leg in Skiing Accident in Idaho". Associated Press. FOX News. December 24, 2006. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,238562,00.html. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger cleared to resume duties after surgery". Los Angeles Times. December 26, 2006.
- ^ Santa Cruz, Nicole (June 19, 2009). "Governor's plane makes emergency landing in Van Nuys". The Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/06/governors-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-van-nuys.html. Retrieved June 20, 2009.
- ^ Williams, Lance (August 17, 2003). "Schwarzenegger worth $100 million, experts say". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/17/TAXES.TMP. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ May 10, 2011 (May 10, 2011). "Arnold and Maria's Surprise Split: How Much is at Stake in Divorce?". Extratv.warnerbros.com. http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2011/05/arnold_and_marias_surprise_split_how_much_is_at_stake_in_divorce.php. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ Matthews, Mark (April 15, 2006). "Gov. Schwarzenegger's Tax Returns Released". Abclocal.go.com. http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/politics&id=4085877. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
- ^ Fleming, Charles (1999). High concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-7475-4262-9.
- ^ "Thanks to Arnold, California to Pave the Hydrogen Highway". BMW World. http://www.usautoparts.net/bmw/hydrogen/schwarzenegger.htm. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Wickell, Dale. "HUMMER H2H Hydrogen Powered Experimental Vehicle". About.com. http://trucks.about.com/od/hybridcar/a/hummer_h2h.htm. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Arnold Schwarzenegger Charity: Special Olympics, After-School All-Stars". Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/04/cx_me_0505featslide_8.html?thisSpeed=undefined. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ "Arnold Schwarzenegger Charity Work, Events and Causes". http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/12-arnold-schwarzenegger. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ a b c "Board of Directors". http://www.afterschoolallstars.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=enJJKMNpFmG&b=854711&ct=1126543. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ "After-School All-Stars, Los Angeles". http://www.la-allstars.org/index.php/about-joomla. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
- ^ "How Vancouver almost lost the 2010 Olympics —Vancouver 2010 Olympics". Toronto: Olympics.thestar.com. February 12, 2010. http://olympics.thestar.com/2010/article/764519--how-vancouver-almost-lost-the-2010-olympics. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
- ^ "Graz removes Schwarzenegger name". BBC News. December 26, 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4560182.stm. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "And ... here's Arnold's Run". http://www.mtexpress.com/2001/01-12-05/01-12-05arnoldsrun.htm. Retrieved July 13, 2008.
- ^ "Strudel, schnitzel shower Schwarzenegger at 60th birthday bash". USA Today. Associated Press. July 30, 2007. http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-07-30-schwarzenegger_N.htm?csp=34. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
External links[link]
| Find more about Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wikipedia's sister projects: | |
 |
Images and media from Commons |
 |
News stories from Wikinews |
 |
Quotations from Wikiquote |
 |
Source texts from Wikisource |
- Arnold Schwarzenegger official website
- Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger official California government site
- Arnold Schwarzenegger official constituency site
- Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum official museum site
- Biography at the National Governors Association
- Biography at WhoRunsGov.com at The Washington Post
- Issue positions and quotes at On the Issues
- Campaign contributions at FollowTheMoney.org
- Appearances on C-SPAN programs
- Appearances on Charlie Rose programs
- Appearances at the Internet Movie Database
- Collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Collected news and commentary at The Guardian
- Works by or about Arnold Schwarzenegger in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Profile at Notable Names Database
- Arnold Schwarzenegger: Wild Years – slideshow by Life magazine
- Complete text, audio, video of Governor Schwarzenegger's 2004 Republican National Convention Address AmericanRhetoric.com
- Complete text and audio of Governor Schwarzenegger's Speech to the United Nations on Global Climate Change AmericanRhetoric.com, September 24, 2007
- Archive of Correspondence pertaining to Governor Schwarzenegger and same-sex marriage AB 43 Project
- Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Open Directory Project
| Party political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Bill Simon |
Republican nominee for Governor of California 2003, 2006 |
Succeeded by Meg Whitman |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by Gray Davis |
Governor of California 2003–2011 |
Succeeded by Jerry Brown |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Schwarzenegger, Arnold |
| Alternative names | Schwarzenegger, Arnold Alois |
| Short description | Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, politician |
| Date of birth | July 30, 1947 |
| Place of birth | Thal, Austria |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
http://wn.com/Arnold_Schwarzenegger
Related pages:
http://cs.wn.com/Arnold Schwarzenegger
http://id.wn.com/Arnold Schwarzenegger
http://es.wn.com/Arnold Schwarzenegger
http://ru.wn.com/Шварценеггер, Арнольд
http://nl.wn.com/Arnold Schwarzenegger
http://it.wn.com/Arnold Schwarzenegger
http://hi.wn.com/अर्नोल्ड श्वार्ज़नेगर
http://pl.wn.com/Arnold Schwarzenegger
http://fr.wn.com/Arnold Schwarzenegger
http://de.wn.com/Arnold Schwarzenegger
http://pt.wn.com/Arnold Schwarzenegger
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
|
|
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2012) |
This article is about the phrase. For other uses, see The Man (disambiguation).
"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.[1]
Contents |
History[link]
The earliest recorded use[citation needed] of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." [2][dubious – discuss] In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.
It was also used as a term for a drug dealer in the 1950s and 1960s and can be seen in such media as Curtis Mayfield's "No Thing On Me", William Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch, and in the Velvet Underground song "I'm Waiting for the Man", in which Lou Reed sings about going to Uptown Manhattan, specifically Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, to buy heroin.
The use of this term was expanded to counterculture groups and their battles against authority, such as the Yippies, which, according to a May 19, 1969 article in U.S. News and World Report, had the "avowed aim ... to destroy 'The Man', their term for the present system of government". The term eventually found its way into humorous usage, such as in a December 1979 motorcycle ad from the magazine Easyriders which featured the tagline, "California residents: Add 6% sales tax for The Man."
In present day, the phrase has been popularized in commercials and cinema, featuring particularly prominently as a recurring motif in the 2003 film School of Rock.[3][4][5][6]
Use as praise[link]
The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like "He is the man (who is in charge)." One example of this usage dates to 1879 when Otto von Bismarck commented, referring to Benjamin Disraeli's pre-eminent position at the Congress of Berlin, "The old Jew, he is the man."[7][dubious – discuss]
In more modern usage, it can be a superlative compliment ("you da man!") indicating that the subject is currently standing out amongst his peers even though they have no special designation or rank, such as a basketball player who is performing better than the other players on the court. It can also be used as a genuine compliment with an implied, slightly exaggerated or sarcastic tone, usually indicating that the person has indeed impressed the speaker but by doing something relatively trivial.
See also[link]
- Absentee landlord
- Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
- New World Order (conspiracy theory)
- Ruling class
- The Establishment
- Power elite
- Corrections officer
- YTMND
Notes[link]
- ^ "stick it to the man". AllWords.com (English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search). http://www.allwords.com/word-stick+it+to+the+man.html.
- ^ Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Volume 1, Page 38, Columbia University Press, 1961
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332379/quotes
- ^ http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/School_of_Rock
- ^ http://www.moviefanatic.com/quotes/movies/school-of-rock/
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37oJqWp4rJM
- ^ Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy, Simon & Schuster, 1994, p155.
References[link]
- Lighter, J.E. (Ed.). (1997). Random House Dictionary of American Slang. New York: Random House.
http://wn.com/The_Man
Related pages:
http://de.wn.com/The Man (Begriff)
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
| Mark Zuckerberg | |
|---|---|
 Mark Zuckerberg, 37th G8 summit (2011) |
|
| Born | Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (1984-05-14) May 14, 1984 (age 28)[1] White Plains, New York, U.S. |
| Residence | Palo Alto, California, U.S.[2] |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (Dropped out) |
| Occupation | Chairman and CEO of Facebook [3] |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Known for | Co-founding Facebook in 2004; world's youngest billionaire as of 2008[4] |
| Net worth |  US$ 17.5 billion (2012)[5] |
| Spouse | Priscilla Chan, M.D. (m. 2012) «start: (2012)»"Marriage: Priscilla Chan, M.D. to Mark Zuckerberg" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Mark_Zuckerberg) |
| Relatives | Randi, Donna and Arielle (sisters) |
| Awards | TIME Person of the Year 2010 |
| Website | |
| Facebook.com/MarkZuckerberg | |
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of four co-founders of the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chairman and chief executive.[6]
Zuckerberg was born and raised in a Jewish household in New York state. While still in middle school in his early teens, he took up writing software programs as a hobby, beginning with BASIC, with help from his father. His father then hired a tutor to help his son develop his programming skills further. Zuckerberg's enjoyment in writing programs led him to developing computer games, writing a music player, and setting up a primitive home network he called "ZuckNet." His private tutor calls him a "prodigy." In high school he excelled in classic literature and science, while becoming proficient in four other languages. He was also captain of the school's fencing team.
He later enrolled in Harvard, majoring in computer science and sociology. In his sophomore year he wrote a program called Facemash as a "fun" project, letting students on the college's network vote on other students' photo attractiveness. It was shut down within days, but would become a template for his writing Facebook, a program he launched from his dormitory room. With the help of friends, including roommate Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook went national on other campuses, and they moved to Palo Alto, California. By 2010, the site had an estimated 500 million users worldwide. Zuckerberg and Facebook have since been involved in various legal disputes initiated by others who have claimed a share of the company's profits due to their help in setting it up. Zuckerberg is the largest individual shareholder with 28.4 percent of the common stock and controls 56.9 percent of the voting power.[7] As of 2012[update], his personal wealth was estimated at more than $19.1 billion, making him one of the world's youngest billionaires.[8] Zuckerberg is one of the 30 richest people on Earth.
Zuckerberg was named four times in Time 100: in 2009 as one of the 100 influential people of the world, in 2010 as Time magazine's Person of the Year,[9] in 2011[10] and 2012, along with being one of the world's richest and most influential people.[8][11] In 2010 a fictionalized account of Zuckerberg creating Facebook while in college and its later start-up phase was made into a movie dramatization, The Social Network.
Contents |
Early life[link]
Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in White Plains, New York.[12] He is the son of Karen (née Kempner), a psychiatrist, and Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist.[13] He and his three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle,[2] were brought up in Dobbs Ferry, New York.[2] Zuckerberg was raised Jewish, had his bar mitzvah when he turned 13,[14][15] and has since described himself as an atheist.[15][16][17][18]
At Ardsley High School, Zuckerberg had excelled in the classics before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy in his junior year, where he won prizes in science (math, astronomy and physics) and classical studies (on his college application, Zuckerberg listed as non-English languages he could read and write: French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek) and was a fencing star and captain of the fencing team.[17][19][20][21] In college, he was known for reciting lines from epic poems such as The Iliad.[19]
Software developer[link]
Early years[link]
Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software as a child in middle school. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s, and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Newman calls him a "prodigy", adding that it was "tough to stay ahead of him". Zuckerberg also took a graduate course in the subject at Mercy College near his home while he was still in high school. He enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communication tools and games. In one such program, since his father's dental practice was operated from their home, he built a software program he called "ZuckNet", which allowed all the computers between the house and dental office to communicate by pinging each other. It is considered a "primitive" version of AOL's Instant Messenger, which came out the following year.[2]
According to writer Jose Antonio Vargas, "some kids played computer games. Mark created them." Zuckerberg himself recalls this period: "I had a bunch of friends who were artists. They'd come over, draw stuff, and I'd build a game out of it." However, notes Vargas, Zuckerberg was not a typical "geek-klutz", as he later became captain of his prep school fencing team and earned a classics diploma. Napster co-founder Sean Parker, a close friend, notes that Zuckerberg was "really into Greek odysseys and all that stuff", recalling how he once quoted lines from the Roman epic poem Aeneid, by Virgil, during a Facebook product conference.[2]
During Zuckerberg's high school years, under the company name Intelligent Media Group, he built a music player called the Synapse Media Player that used artificial intelligence to learn the user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot[22] and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine.[23] Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase Synapse and recruit Zuckerberg, but he chose instead to enroll at Harvard University in September 2002.
Harvard years[link]
By the time he began classes at Harvard, he had already achieved a "reputation as a programming prodigy", notes Vargas. He studied psychology and computer science as well as belonging to Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternity.[2][6][9][24] In his sophomore year, he wrote a program he called CourseMatch, which allowed users to make class selection decisions based on the choices of other students and also to help them form study groups. A short time later, he created a different program he initially called Facemash that let students select the best looking person from a choice of photos. According to Zuckerberg's roommate at the time, Arie Hasit, "he built the site for fun". Hasit explains:
We had books called Face Books, which included the names and pictures of everyone who lived in the student dorms. At first, he built a site and placed two pictures, or pictures of two males and two females. Visitors to the site had to choose who was "hotter" and according to the votes there would be a ranking.[25]
The site went up over a weekend, but by Monday morning the college shut it down because its popularity had overwhelmed Harvard's server and prevented students from accessing the Internet. In addition, many students complained that their photos were being used without permission. Zuckerberg apologized publicly, and the student paper ran articles stating that his site was "completely improper".[25]
Around the time of Facemash, however, students were requesting that the university develop an internal website that would include similar photos and contact details. According to Hasit, "Mark heard these pleas and decided that if the university won't do something about it, he will, and he would build a site that would be even better than what the university had planned."[25]
Career[link]
Facebook[link]
Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004.[26][27] An earlier inspiration for Facebook may have come from Phillips Exeter Academy, the prep school from which Zuckerberg graduated in 2002. It published its own student directory, “The Photo Address Book,” which students referred to as “The Facebook.” Such photo directories were an important part of the student social experience at many private schools. With them, students were able to list attributes such as their class years, their proximities to friends, and their telephone numbers.[26]
Once at college, Zuckerberg's Facebook started off as just a "Harvard thing" until Zuckerberg decided to spread it to other schools, enlisting the help of roommate Dustin Moskovitz. They first started it at Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, New York University, Cornell, Penn, Brown, and Yale, and then at other schools that had social contacts with Harvard.[28][29][30][31]
Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California, with Moskovitz and some friends. They leased a small house that served as an office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel who invested in the company. They got their first office in mid-2004. According to Zuckerberg, the group planned to return to Harvard but eventually decided to remain in California.[32][33] They had already turned down offers by major corporations to buy out Facebook. In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his reasoning:
It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.[27]
He restated these same goals to Wired magazine in 2010: "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open."[34] Earlier, in April 2009, Zuckerberg sought the advice of former Netscape CFO Peter Currie about financing strategies for Facebook.[35]
On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that the company reached the 500 million-user mark.[36] When asked whether Facebook could earn more income from advertising as a result of its phenomenal growth, he explained:
I guess we could ... If you look at how much of our page is taken up with ads compared to the average search query. The average for us is a little less than 10 percent of the pages and the average for search is about 20 percent taken up with ads ... That’s the simplest thing we could do. But we aren’t like that. We make enough money. Right, I mean, we are keeping things running; we are growing at the rate we want to.[34]
In 2010, Steven Levy, who authored the 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, wrote that Zuckerberg "clearly thinks of himself as a hacker".[37] Zuckerberg said that "it's OK to break things" "to make them better".[37][38] Facebook instituted "hackathons" held every six to eight weeks where participants would have one night to conceive of and complete a project.[37] The company provided music, food, and beer at the hackathons, and many Facebook staff members, including Zuckerberg, regularly attended.[38] "The idea is that you can build something really good in a night", Zuckerberg told Levy. "And that's part of the personality of Facebook now ... It's definitely very core to my personality."[37]
Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the Information Age".[39] Zuckerberg ranked number 23 on the Vanity Fair 100 list in 2009.[40] In 2010, Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in New Statesman's annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures.[41]
In a 2011 interview with PBS after the death of Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg said that Jobs had advised him on how to create a management team at Facebook that was "focused on building as high quality and good things as you are".[42]
Wirehog[link]
Main article: Wirehog
A month after Facebook launched in February 2004, i2hub, another campus-only service, created by Wayne Chang, was launched. i2hub focused on peer-to-peer file sharing. At the time, both i2hub and Facebook were gaining the attention of the press and growing rapidly in users and publicity. In August 2004, Zuckerberg, Andrew McCollum, Adam D'Angelo, and Sean Parker launched a competing peer-to-peer file sharing service called Wirehog, a precursor to Facebook Platform applications.[43][44]
Platform and Beacon[link]
On May 24, 2007, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Platform, a development platform for programmers to create social applications within Facebook. Within weeks, many applications had been built and some already had millions of users. It grew to more than 800,000 developers around the world building applications for Facebook Platform.
On November 6, 2007, Zuckerberg announced a new social advertising system called Beacon, which enabled people to share information with their Facebook friends based on their browsing activities on other sites. For example, eBay sellers could let friends know automatically what they have for sale via the Facebook news feed as they list items for sale. The program came under scrutiny because of privacy concerns from groups and individual users. Zuckerberg and Facebook failed to respond to the concerns quickly, and on December 5, 2007, Zuckerberg wrote a blog post on Facebook[45] taking responsibility for the concerns about Beacon and offering an easier way for users to opt out of the service.
In 2007, Zuckerberg was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[46]
On July 23, 2008, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Connect, a version of Facebook Platform for users.
Legal controversies[link]
Main article: Criticism of Facebook
ConnectU lawsuits[link]
Main article: ConnectU
Harvard students Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra accused Zuckerberg of intentionally making them believe he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com (later called ConnectU).[47] They filed a lawsuit in 2004 but it was dismissed on a technicality on March 28, 2007. It was refiled soon thereafter in federal court in Boston. Facebook counter sued in regards to Social Butterfly, a project put out by The Winklevoss Chang Group, an alleged partnership between ConnectU and i2hub. On June 25, 2008, the case settled and Facebook agreed to transfer over 1.2 million common shares and pay $20 million in cash.[48]
In November 2007, confidential court documents were posted on the website of 02138, a magazine that catered to Harvard alumni. They included Zuckerberg's social security number, his parents' home address, and his girlfriend's address. Facebook filed to have the documents removed, but the judge ruled in favor of 02138.[49]
Saverin lawsuit[link]
A lawsuit filed by Eduardo Saverin against Facebook and Zuckerberg was settled out of court. Though terms of the settlement were sealed, the company affirmed Saverin's title as co-founder of Facebook. Saverin signed a non-disclosure contract after the settlement.[50][51]
Pakistan criminal investigation[link]
In June 2010, Pakistani Deputy Attorney General Muhammad Azhar Sidiqque launched a criminal investigation into Zuckerberg and Facebook co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes after a "Draw Muhammad" contest was hosted on Facebook. The investigation also named the anonymous German woman who created the contest. Sidiqque asked the country's police to contact Interpol to have Zuckerberg and the three others arrested for blasphemy. On May 19, 2010, Facebook's website was temporarily blocked in Pakistan until Facebook removed the contest from its website at the end of May. Sidiqque also asked its UN representative to raise the issue with the United Nations General Assembly.[52][53]
Paul Ceglia[link]
Main article: Paul Ceglia
On June 30, 2010, Paul Ceglia, the owner of a wood pellet fuel company in Allegany County, upstate New York, filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, claiming 84% ownership of Facebook and seeking monetary damages. According to Ceglia, he and Zuckerberg signed a contract on April 28, 2003, that an initial fee of $1,000 entitled Ceglia to 50% of the website's revenue, as well as an additional 1% interest in the business per day after January 1, 2004, until website completion. Zuckerberg was developing other projects at the time, among which was Facemash, the predecessor of Facebook, but did not register the domain name thefacebook.com until January 1, 2004. Facebook management dismissed the lawsuit as "completely frivolous". Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt told a reporter that Ceglia's counsel had unsuccessfully sought an out-of-court settlement.[54]
Pursuant to the contract, Ceglia agreed to pay Zuckerberg $1,000 for StreetFax and $1,000 for PageBook. The contract also refers to The Face Book, a project that was to be completed by January 2004. Ceglia offered a receipt for $1,000, dated six months after the contract, to prove he paid Zuckerberg, but it was not the full amount due, and the contract did not specify what occurs in the event of a default.[55]
In an interview with ABC World News, Zuckerberg stated he was confident he had never signed such an agreement. At the time, Zuckerberg worked for Ceglia as a code developer on a project named "StreetFax". Judge Thomas Brown issued a restraining order on all financial transfers concerning ownership of Facebook until further notice; in response, Facebook removed the case to federal court and asked that the state court injunction be dissolved. According to Facebook, the injunction would not affect their business and lacked any legal basis.[56][57][58][59][60][61]
Depictions in media[link]
[edit] The Social Network
Main article: The Social Network
A movie based on Zuckerberg and the founding years of Facebook, The Social Network was released on October 1, 2010, and stars Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg. After Zuckerberg was told about the film, he responded, "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive."[62] Also, after the film's script was leaked on the Internet and it was apparent that the film would not portray Zuckerberg in a wholly positive light, he stated that he wanted to establish himself as a "good guy".[63] The film is based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, which the book's publicist once described as "big juicy fun" rather than "reportage".[64] The film's screenwriter Aaron Sorkin told New York magazine, "I don't want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling", adding, "What is the big deal about accuracy purely for accuracy's sake, and can we not have the true be the enemy of the good?"[65]
Upon winning the Golden Globes award for Best Picture on January 16, 2011, producer Scott Rudin thanked Facebook and Zuckerberg "for his willingness to allow us to use his life and work as a metaphor through which to tell a story about communication and the way we relate to each other.”[66] Sorkin, who won for Best Screenplay, retracted some of the impressions given in his script:[67]
- "I wanted to say to Mark Zuckerberg tonight, if you're watching, Rooney Mara's character makes a prediction at the beginning of the movie. She was wrong. You turned out to be a great entrepreneur, a visionary, and an incredible altruist."
On January 29, 2011, Zuckerberg made a surprise guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, which was being hosted by Jesse Eisenberg. They both said it was the first time they ever met.[68] Eisenberg asked Zuckerberg, who had been critical of his portrayal by the film, what he thought of the movie. Zuckerberg replied, "It was interesting."[69] In a subsequent interview about their meeting, Eisenberg explains that he was "nervous to meet him, because I had spent now, a year and a half thinking about him ..." He adds, "Mark has been so gracious about something that’s really so uncomfortable ... The fact that he would do SNL and make fun of the situation is so sweet and so generous. It’s the best possible way to handle something that, I think, could otherwise be very uncomfortable."[70][71]
Disputed accuracy[link]
Jeff Jarvis, author of the book Public Parts, interviewed Zuckerberg and believes Sorkin has made too much of the story up. He states, "That's what the internet is accused of doing, making stuff up, not caring about the facts."[72]
According to David Kirkpatrick, former technology editor at Fortune magazine and author of The Facebook Effect:The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, (2011),[73] "the film is only "40% true ... he is not snide and sarcastic in a cruel way, the way Zuckerberg is played in the movie." He says that "a lot of the factual incidents are accurate, but many are distorted and the overall impression is false", and concludes that primarily "his motivations were to try and come up with a new way to share information on the internet".[72]
Although the film portrays Zuckerberg's creation of Facebook in order to elevate his stature after not getting into any of the elite final clubs at Harvard, Zuckerberg himself said he had no interest in joining the final clubs.[2] Kirkpatrick agrees that the impression implied by the film is "false".[72]
Karel Baloun, a former senior engineer at Facebook, notes that the "image of Zuckerberg as a socially inept nerd is overstated ... It is fiction ..." He likewise dismisses the film's assertion that he "would deliberately betray a friend".[72]
Other depictions[link]
Zuckerberg voiced himself on an episode of The Simpsons, "Loan-a Lisa", which first aired on October 3, 2010. In the episode, Lisa Simpson and her friend Nelson encounter Zuckerberg at an entrepreneurs' convention. Zuckerberg tells Lisa that she does not need to graduate from college to be wildly successful, referencing Bill Gates and Richard Branson as examples.[74]
On October 9, 2010, Saturday Night Live lampooned Zuckerberg and Facebook.[75] Andy Samberg played Zuckerberg. The real Zuckerberg was reported to have been amused: "I thought this was funny."[76]
Stephen Colbert awarded a "Medal of Fear" to Zuckerberg at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on October 30, 2010, "because he values his privacy much more than he values yours".[77]
Use of other social networks[link]
Zuckerberg created an account with Google+ soon after the social network was unveiled, saying he sees it as a "validation for his vision" of online social networking.[78] By July 2011, Zuckerberg had become the most followed user on Google+, outranking Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.[79] As of March 6, 2012, his ranking has dropped to 184 on the service, behind Page and Brin.[80] His public profile is minimal with one photo and a bio that reads "I make things".[81]
Zuckerberg has maintained a private account on Twitter under the username "zuck", though in 2009 he revealed that the public account "finkd" also belonged to him.[82]
Philanthropy[link]
Zuckerberg donated an undisclosed amount to Diaspora, an open-source personal web server that implements a distributed social networking service. He called it a "cool idea".[34]
Zuckerberg founded the Start-up: Education foundation.[83][84] On September 22, 2010, it was reported that Zuckerberg had arranged to donate $100 million to Newark Public Schools, the public school system of Newark, New Jersey.[85][86] Critics noted the timing of the donation as being close to the release of The Social Network, which painted a somewhat negative portrait of Zuckerberg.[87][88] Zuckerberg responded to the criticism, saying, "The thing that I was most sensitive about with the movie timing was, I didn’t want the press about The Social Network movie to get conflated with the Newark project. I was thinking about doing this anonymously just so that the two things could be kept separate."[87] Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker stated that he and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had to convince Zuckerberg's team not to make the donation anonymously.[87]
On December 9, 2010, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and investor Warren Buffett signed a promise they called the "Giving Pledge", in which they promised to donate to charity at least half of their wealth over the course of time, and invited others among the wealthy to donate 50% or more of their wealth to charity.[89][90][91]
Personal life[link]
At a party put on by his fraternity during his sophomore year, Zuckerberg met Priscilla Chan, a fellow student who he began dating in 2003. Chan is of Chinese descent, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, and is a 2003 graduate of Quincy High School.[92][93] In September 2010, Zuckerberg invited Chan, by then a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco,[94] to move into his rented Palo Alto house.[2][95] Zuckerberg studied Mandarin Chinese in preparation for the couple's visit to the People's Republic of China in December 2010.[96][97]
On Zuckerberg's Facebook page, he listed his personal interests as "openness, making things that help people connect and share what's important to them, revolutions, information flow, minimalism".[98] Zuckerberg sees blue best because of red–green colorblindness; blue is also Facebook's dominant color.[99]
On May 19, 2012, Zuckerberg and Chan married in Zuckerberg's backyard in a celebration also marking her graduation from medical school.[100][101][102] Chan has a medical degree, and, according to some sources, is planning to begin interning and residencing towards becoming a pediatrician in 2012 or is a pediatrician currently.[103][104][105][106]
References[link]
- ^ Pilkington, Ed (March 10, 2011). "Forbes rich list: Facebook six stake their claims". The Guardian (UK). http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/09/forbes-rich-list-facebook-six. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Vargas, Jose Antonio (September 20, 2010). "The Face of Facebook". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_vargas. Retrieved September 22, 2010.
- ^ "Facebook shareholders are wedded to the whims of Mark Zuckerberg". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/20/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120517.
- ^ Kroll, Luisa, ed. (March 5, 2008). In Pictures: Youngest Billionaires: Mark Zuckerberg, U.S.: Age 23: $1.5 billion, self-made. Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/05/youngest-billionaires-rich-billionaires08-cx_lk_0305youngest_slide_11.html.
- ^ Mark Zuckerberg topic page. Forbes.com. Retrieved March 2012.
- ^ a b "Executive Bios". Facebook.com. http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?execbios. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
- ^ Zuckerberg Tops Google Founders With $28.4 Billion Facebook Haul
- ^ a b "Mark Zuckerberg". Forbes. March 2012. http://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg/. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
- ^ a b Grossman, Lev (December 15, 2010). "Person of the Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg". Time. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183_2037185,00.html.
- ^ Capone, April. "Mark Zuckerberg - The 2011 TIME 100". Time. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2066367_2066369_2066089,00.html. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "The All-Time TIME 100 of All Time". Time. 18 April 2012. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2112269_2112278,00.html. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ Malone, Jasmine. "Mark Zuckerberg wins Time person of the year: profile", The Daily Telegraph, Dec 15, 2010
- ^ "The Zuckerbergs of Dobbs Ferry", New York (14 May 2012), http://nymag.com/news/features/zuckerberg-family-2012-5/index1.html, retrieved 21 May 2012
- ^ Burrell, Ian (July 24, 2010). "Mark Zuckerberg: He's got the whole world on his site". The Independent (UK). http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/mark-zuckerberg-hes-got-the-whole-world-on-his-site-2034134.html. Retrieved November 6, 2010.
- ^ a b Boggan, Steve (May 21, 2010). "The Billionaire Facebook Founder making a fortune from your secrets (though you probably don't know he's doing it)". Daily Mail (UK). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1280330/The-billionaire-Facebook-founder-making-fortune-secrets-probably-dont-know-hes-doing-it.html. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
- ^ Vara, Vauhini (November 28, 2007). "Too Much Information?". The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119621309736406034.html. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
- ^ a b Kirkpatrick, David (2010). The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World. New York City: Simon & Schuster. pp. 20–21. ISBN 978-1-4391-0211-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=RRUkLhyGZVgC&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved November 9, 2010.
- ^ Alef, Daniel. Mark Zuckerberg: The Face Behind Facebook and Social Networking, Titans of Fortune Publishing (2010)
- ^ a b McDevitt, Caitlin (March 5, 2010). "What We Learned About Mark Zuckerberg This Week". The Big Money. http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/facebook-status/2010/03/05/what-we-learned-about-mark-zuckerberg-week. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
- ^ Grynbaum, Michael M. "Mark E. Zuckerberg '06: The whiz behind thefacebook.com", The Harvard Crimson. June 10, 2004. Retrieved on August 29, 2010
- ^ Heffernan, Virginia. "Looking for the Real Mark Zuckerberg", The New York Times, December 10, 2010
- ^ Hemos/Dan Moore (April 21, 2003). "Machine Learning and MP3s". Slashdot. http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/21/110236.shtml. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
- ^ Troy Dreier (February 8, 2005). "Synapse Media Player Review". PCMag.com. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1748374,00.asp. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
- ^ Larson, Chase (25 March 2011), Mark Zuckerberg speaks at BYU, calls Facebook "as much psychology and sociology as it is technology", Deseret News, http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700121651/Mark-Zuckerberg-speaks-at-BYU-calls-Facebook-as-much-psychology-and-sociology-as-it-is-technology.html?pg=2, retrieved 21 May 2012
- ^ a b c "Facebook founder's roommate recounts creation of Internet giant", Haaretz, Oct. 5, 2009
- ^ a b "Did Mark Zuckerberg's Inspiration for Facebook Come Before Harvard?". ReadWriteWeb. May 10, 2009. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mark_zuckerberg_inspiration_for_facebook_before_harvard.php. Retrieved October 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "Face-to-Face with Mark Zuckerberg '02" Phillips Exeter Academy website, January 24, 2007
- ^ Chris Holt (March 10, 2004). "Thefacebook.com's darker side". The Stanford Daily. http://www.stanforddaily.com/2004/03/10/thefacebookcoms-darker-side.
- ^ "Online network created by Harvard students flourishes". Tufts Daily. http://www.tuftsdaily.com/2.5541/1.600318. Retrieved August 21, 2009.
- ^ "Thefacebook.com opens to Duke students — News". Duke Chronicle. http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2004/04/14/News/Thefacebook.com.Opens.To.Duke.Students-1469558.shtml. Retrieved August 21, 2009. [dead link]
- ^ "Students flock to join college online facebook". The Daily Pennsylvanian. http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/node/41990.
- ^ Teller, Sam, "Zuckerberg To Leave Harvard Indefinitely: Looking for employees, facebook.com creator visits campus", The Harvard Crimson, Tuesday, November 1, 2005
- ^ Feeney, Kevin J., "Business, Casual. Mark E. Zuckerberg '06–'07, founder and CEO of TheFacebook, kicks back amid the mess in his California casa. And yes, He's working", The Harvard Crimson, Thursday, February 24, 2005
- ^ a b c Singel, Ryan (May 28, 2010). "Epicenter: Mark Zuckerberg: I Donated to Open Source, Facebook Competitor". Wired News (Condé Nast Publishing). http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/zuckerberg-interview/. Retrieved May 29, 2010.
- ^ "Yu, Zuckerberg and the Facebook fallout". Reuters. April 1, 2009. http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/04/01/yu-zuckerberg-and-the-facebook-fallout. Retrieved October 15, 2010. "In a back-to-the-future move, former Netscape CFO Peter Currie will be the key adviser to Facebook about financial matters, until a new search for a CFO is found, sources said."
- ^ Zuckerberg, Mark (22 July 2010), 500 Million Stories, https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=409753352130, retrieved 21 May 2012
- ^ a b c d Levy, Steven (April 19, 2010). "Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists". Wired. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_hackers/all/1. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
- ^ a b McGirt, Ellen (February 17, 2010). "The World's Most Innovative Companies 2010". Fast Company. http://www.fastcompany.com/mic/2010/profile/facebook. Retrieved September 24, 2010.
- ^ "The Vanity Fair 100". Vanity Fair. October 2010. http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/the-vf-100-201010?currentPage=1. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
- ^ "The Vanity Fair 100". Vanity Fair. September 1, 2010. http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2009/10/new-establishment200910?currentPage=all. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
- ^ "Mark Zuckerberg – 50 People who matter 2010". New Statesman. UK. http://www.newstatesman.com/digital/2010/09/zuckerberg-faceman-site-world. Retrieved September 27, 2010.
- ^ "Mark Zuckerberg reveals he was coached by Jobs on improving Facebook". The Economic Times. November 8, 2011. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-reveals-he-was-coached-by-jobs-on-improving-facebook/articleshow/10655472.cms. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
- ^ Martey Dodoo (August 16, 2004). "Wirehog?". Martey Dodoo. http://www.marteydodoo.com/2004/08/16/wirehog/.
- ^ Alan J. Tabak (August 13, 2004). "Zuckerberg Programs New Website". Harvard Crimson. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/8/13/zuckerberg-programs-new-website-having-seemingly/.
- ^ "The Facebook Blog | Facebook". Blog.facebook.com. http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7584397130. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
- ^ "2007 Young Innovators Under 35: Mark Zuckerberg, 23". Technology Review. 2007. http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?TRID=635. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
- ^ Nicholas Carlson. "In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Broke Into A Facebook User's Private Email Account". Silicon Alley Insider. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-into-the-harvard-crimson-2010-3. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
- ^ Logged in as click here to log out (February 12, 2009). "Facebook paid up to $65m to founder Mark Zuckerberg's ex-classmates | Technology | guardian.co.uk". Guardian (UK). http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/12/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-ex-classmates. Retrieved August 21, 2009.
- ^ McCarthy, Caroline (November 30, 2007). "article about 02138". News.com. http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9827222-36.html?tag=cd.blog. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
- ^ Carvalho dos Santos, Alexandre; Marcelo Rainho (October 2009). "A misteriosa história do brasileiro que fundou o Facebook" (in Portuguese). Superinteressante (São Paulo: Editora Abril) (270): 94–97. ISSN 0104-1789. OCLC 60743498.
- ^ Hempel, Jessi (July 25, 2009). "The book that Facebook doesn't want you to read". CNN Money. http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/25/technology/founding_of_facebook.fortune/. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
- ^ West, Jackson. "Facebook CEO Named in Pakistan Criminal Investigation". NBC Bay Area. http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Facebook-CEO-Named-in-Pakiistan-Criminal-Investigation.html. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
- ^ "Zuckerberg faces criminal investigation in Pakistan". http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/17/zuckerberg_faces_criminal_investigation_in_pakistan.
- ^ Anderson, John (July 29, 2010). "Facebook does not have a like button for Ceglia". WellsvilleDaily.com. http://www.wellsvilledaily.com/features/x109282307/Facebook-does-not-have-a-like-button-for-Ceglia. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
- ^ Venture beat coverage of Ceglia lawsuit
- ^ Oreskovic, Alexei (July 12, 2010). "Facebook fights New Yorker's claim of 84 percent stake". Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66C01L20100713. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
- ^ Fowler, Geoffrey A. (July 13, 2010). "Man Claims Ownership of Facebook". The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703283004575363330101240888.html. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
- ^ Priyanka (July 22, 2010). "Zuckerberg ‘quite sure’ he didn't hand over 84% Facebook to Ceglia". The Money Times. http://www.themoneytimes.com/featured/20100722/zuckerberg-%E2%80%98quite-sure%E2%80%99-he-didn039t-hand-over-84-facebook-ceglia-id-10121479.html. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
- ^ Kawamoto, Dawn (July 13, 2010). "Facebook and Website Designer Paul Ceglia Brawl Over 84% Stake". DailyFinance.com. http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/original-facebook-website-designer-sues-for-84-of-company/19552015. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
- ^ Chowdhry, Amit (July 13, 2010). "Paul Ceglia Files Lawsuit Against Facebook Claiming To Own 84% Of The Company". Pulse2. http://pulse2.com/2010/07/13/paul-ceglia-files-lawsuit-against-facebook-claiming-to-own-84-of-the-company/. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
- ^ Bosker, Bianca (July 13, 2007). "Paul Ceglia Claims To Own 84% Stake In Facebook". The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/12/paul-ceglia-facebook-owne_n_643550.html. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
- ^ Fried, Ina (June 2, 2010). "Zuckerberg in the hot seat at D8". CNET. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006653-56.html?tag=mncol;title. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
- ^ Harlow, John (May 16, 2010). "Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss". The Times Online (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7127721.ece. Retrieved July 18, 2010.
- ^ Cieply, Michael and Helft, Miguel (August 20, 2010). "Facebook Feels Unfriendly Toward Film It Inspired". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/business/media/21facebook.html?_r=1. Retrieved September 22, 2010.
- ^ Harris, Mark (September 17, 2010). "Inventing Facebook". New York. http://nymag.com/movies/features/68319. Retrieved September 22, 2010.
- ^ "The Social Network Filmmakers Thank Zuckerberg During Golden Globes" Time "Techland", Jan. 17, 2011
- ^ "Last Night, Aaron Sorkin Demonstrated How to Apologize Without Accepting Responsibility" NYMag, Jan. 17, 2011
- ^ "Mark Zuckerberg Meets Jesse Eisenberg on Saturday Night Live". People. January 30, 2011. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20462104,00.html. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
- ^ "Jesse Eisenberg meets the real Mark Zuckerberg on SNL" Digital Trends, Jan. 31, 2011
- ^ "Jesse Eisenberg Calls Mark Zuckerberg "Sweet" and "Generous" in His Funny Oscar Nominees Lunch Interview" Popsugar, Feb. 7, 2011
- ^ "Mark Zuckerberg Meets Jesse Eisenberg On The 'Saturday Night Live' Stage" NPR, Jan. 30, 2011
- ^ a b c d Rohrer, Finlo. "Is the Facebook movie the truth about Mark Zuckerberg" BBC, Sept. 30, 2010
- ^ "The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World", release date Feb. 1, 2011
- ^ "Facebook Creator Mark Zuckerberg to Get Yellow on The Simpsons". New York. July 21, 2010. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/facebook_creator_mark_zuckerbe.html. Retrieved September 22, 2010.
- ^ Brandon Griggs (October 11, 2010). "Facebook, Zuckerberg spoofed on 'SNL'". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/10/11/snl.facebook.zuckerberg/index.html?hpt=T2. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
- ^ "Mark Zuckerberg ‘Liked’ SNL’s Facebook Skit". New York. October 12, 2010. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/10/mark_zuckerberg_liked_snls_fac.html. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
- ^ Lerer, Lisa and McMillan, Traci (October 30, 2010). "Comedy Central's Stewart Says Press, Politicians Are Creating Extremism". Bloomberg. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-30/comedy-central-s-stewart-says-press-politicians-are-creating-extremism.html. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
- ^ Ribeiro, Goncalo. "Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg On Google+: Been There, Done That." Redmond Pie. July 7, 2011. Accessed March 7, 2012. http://www.redmondpie.com/facebooks-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-on-google-been-there-done-that/
- ^ Tsotsis, Alexia. "Mark Zuckerberg Is The Most Followed User On Google+. Tech Crunch. July 4, 2011. Accessed March 7, 2012. http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/04/mark-zuckerberg-is-the-most-followed-user-on-google/
- ^ Google. Google+ Social Statistics. Accessed March 7, 2012. http://socialstatistics.com
- ^ Zuckerberg, Mark. Google+ Profile. Accessed March 7, 2012. https://plus.google.com/104560124403688998123/about
- ^ Thomas, Owen. "Mark Zuckerberg Outs Himself on Twitter." Gawker.com. March 7, 2009. Accessed March 7, 2012. http://gawker.com/5166123/mark-zuckerberg-outs-himself-on-twitter
- ^ "Mayor Says Newark Is 40% There in Matching Facebook Founder's Grant". The Chronicle of Philanthropy. September 27, 2010. http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/mayor-says-newark-is-40-there-in-matching-facebook-founder-s-grant/27213.
- ^ Ng, Philiana (September 24, 2010). "Mark Zuckerberg: 'The Social Network' is 'fun'". Hollywood Reporter. https://secure.vnuemedia.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i386774579db7c203321dc871f916d867.
- ^ Tracy, Ryan (November 23, 2010). "Can Mark Zuckerberg's Money Save Newark's Schools?". Newsweek. http://education.newsweek.com/2010/11/23/can-mark-zuckerberg-s-money-save-newark-s-schools.html.
- ^ Reidel, David (September 22, 2010). "Facebook CEO to Gift $100M to Newark Schools". CBS News.com. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/22/national/main6892301.shtml. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
- ^ a b c Isaac, Mike (September 24, 2010). "Zuckerberg Pressured To Announce $100 million Donation To Newark". Forbes. http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/09/24/zuckerberg-pressured-to-announce-100-million-donation-to-newark. Retrieved Sep 28, 2010.
- ^ "Mark Zuckerberg's Well-Timed $100 million Donation to Newark Public Schools". New York Magazine. September 22, 2010. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/09/mark_zuckerberg_to_give_100_mi.html. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
- ^ Gonzales, Sandra (December 8, 2010). "Zuckerberg to donate wealth". Silicon Valley Mercury News. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16813123?nclick_check=1.
- ^ "US billionaires pledge 50% of their wealth to charity". BBC. August 4, 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10870361. Retrieved September 6, 2010.
- ^ Moss, Rosabeth (December 14, 2010). "Four Strategic Generosity Lessons". Business Week. http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/dec2010/ca20101214_945792.htm. Retrieved March 9, 2011.
- ^ Freeman, Kate. "Who is Zuckerberg's Bride, Priscilla Chan?". Mashable. http://mashable.com/2012/05/20/priscilla-chan/. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- ^ Shanahan, Mark, "Mark Zuckerberg's lady friend is local", The Boston Globe, July 30, 2010
- ^ "White Coats on a Rainbow of Students", Spotlight, UCSF School of Medicine. Cf. Priscilla Chan, 23.
- ^ Bates, Daniel, "It must be true, it's on Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg finally changes his status to 'in a relationship' but will an 'engagement' status follow?", Daily Mail, March 25, 2011
- ^ Spiegel, Rob (December 20, 2010). "Zuckerberg Goes Searching in China". http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Zuckerberg-Goes-Searching-in-China-71499.html?wlc=1292882576.
- ^ "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg learn chinese every morning". ChineseTime.cn. September 29, 2010. http://www.chinesetime.cn/learn/chinese/forum/tabid/119/forumid/-1/postid/4618/scope/posts/language/en-US/Default.aspx.
- ^ Zuckerberg's Facebook Page
- ^ Sutter, John D. "Why Facebook is blue – six facts about Mark Zuckerberg", CNN. September 20, 2010. Retrieved on October 26, 2010.
- ^ Stein, Joel. "Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart". http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FACEBOOK_CEO_MARRIED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-19-21-31-02. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- ^ "Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan". cbsnews.com. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57437780-501465/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-marries-priscilla-chan/. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
- ^ Wohlsen, Marcus (May 19, 2012). "Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan: Palo Alto, Calif., ceremony caps busy week after company goes public". msnbc.com. Associated Press. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47491836/ns/business/?gt1=54001. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
- ^ Mark Zuckerberg's Wife Priscilla Chan: A New Brand of Billionaire Bride, 20 May 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/05/20/mark-zuckerbergs-wife-priscilla-chan-a-new-brand-of-billionaire-bride/, retrieved 21 May 2012
- ^ Status Update: Mark Zuckerberg is married to Priscilla Chan, Techstroke, 20 May 2012, http://techstroke.com/status-update-mark-zuckerberg-marries-priscilla-chan.html, retrieved 21 May 2012
- ^ Mark Zuckerberg's Wife Priscilla Chan: A New Brand of Billionaire Bride, 20 May 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/05/20/mark-zuckerbergs-wife-priscilla-chan-a-new-brand-of-billionaire-bride/, retrieved 21 May 2012
- ^ Status Update: Mark Zuckerberg is married to Priscilla Chan, Techstroke, 20 May 2012, http://techstroke.com/status-update-mark-zuckerberg-marries-priscilla-chan.html, retrieved 21 May 2012
External links[link]
 |
This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. (May 2012) |
|
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Mark Zuckerberg |
- Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook
- Profile at Forbes
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Mark Zuckerberg on Charlie Rose
- Mark Zuckerberg at the Internet Movie Database
- Mark Zuckerberg collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Mark Zuckerberg collected news and commentary at The Guardian
- Mark Zuckerberg collected news and commentary at The Wall Street Journal
- Mark Zuckerberg collected news and commentary at Bloomberg News
- Works by or about Mark Zuckerberg in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Mark Zuckerberg at the Notable Names Database
- Document list
- Mark Zuckerberg's patents at ip.com
- Interviews
- Video of interview, Leslie Stahl, Sixty Minutes[when?]
- Video of Interview, Rick Stengel, Time Magazine December 2010
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Zuckerberg, Mark Elliot |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | American computer entrepreneur |
| Date of birth | 1984-05-14 |
| Place of birth | White Plains, New York, United States |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
http://wn.com/Mark_Zuckerberg
Related pages:
http://cs.wn.com/Mark Zuckerberg
http://id.wn.com/Mark Zuckerberg
http://es.wn.com/Mark Zuckerberg
http://ru.wn.com/Цукерберг, Марк
http://nl.wn.com/Mark Zuckerberg
http://pt.wn.com/Mark Zuckerberg
http://it.wn.com/Mark Zuckerberg
http://pl.wn.com/Mark Zuckerberg
http://fr.wn.com/Mark Zuckerberg
http://de.wn.com/Mark Zuckerberg
http://hi.wn.com/मार्क ज़ुकेरबर्ग
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is about the California politician. For other people named or nicknamed Jerry Brown(e), see Jerry Brown (disambiguation).
| Jerry Brown | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| 34th and 39th Governor of California | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2011 |
|
| Lieutenant | Abel Maldonado (2011) [1] Gavin Newsom (since 2011) |
| Preceded by | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| In office January 6, 1975 – January 3, 1983 |
|
| Lieutenant | Mervyn M. Dymally (1975–1979) Mike Curb (1979–1983) |
| Preceded by | Ronald Reagan |
| Succeeded by | George Deukmejian |
| 31st Attorney General of California | |
| In office January 9, 2007 – January 3, 2011 |
|
| Governor | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Preceded by | Bill Lockyer |
| Succeeded by | Kamala Harris |
| 47th Mayor of Oakland | |
| In office January 4, 1999 – January 8, 2007 |
|
| Preceded by | Elihu Harris |
| Succeeded by | Ron Dellums |
| 24th Secretary of State of California | |
| In office January 4, 1971 – January 6, 1975 |
|
| Governor | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | H. P. Sullivan (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | March Fong Eu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr. (1938-04-07) April 7, 1938 (age 74) San Francisco, California |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Anne Gust |
| Residence | Oakland, California |
| Alma mater | Santa Clara University University of California, Berkeley Yale Law School |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism[2] |
| Website | Office of Governor Brown Jerry Brown |
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California (1975–83), and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor (2011–present).[3] He is the son of Pat Brown, the 32nd Governor of California (1959–67).
Both before and after his first two terms as governor, Brown was elected to a number of state, local and party offices. Brown previously served as a member of the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees (1969–1971), Secretary of State of California (1971–1975), chairman of the California Democratic Party (1989–1991), Mayor of Oakland (1999–2007) and Attorney General of California (2007–2011).
At the time of his election to a third, non-consecutive term as governor, on November 2, 2010, Brown was serving as the 31st Attorney General of California, an elected position. Brown was formally inaugurated as governor on January 3, 2011, the 28th anniversary of the end of his last term. During his first term (as California's 34th Governor), he was the sixth-youngest Governor of that state. Upon his inauguration as California's 39th Governor, he became its oldest serving governor.[4] At the age of 74, Brown is also the oldest currently serving governor in the United States.
Brown sought the Democratic nominations for President of the United States in 1976, 1980, and 1992, and was the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in California in 1982 but was unsuccessful in these attempts.
Contents
|
Early life and education[link]
Brown was born in San Francisco, California, as the only son of four siblings born to Bernice Layne Brown and former lawyer, District Attorney of San Francisco and later Governor of California Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Sr.[5] Jerry Brown has Irish ancestry through his paternal grandfather and German ancestry through his paternal grandmother.[6] He was a member of the California Cadet Corps at St. Ignatius High School, where he graduated in 1955. He then studied at Santa Clara University. In 1956, Brown entered Sacred Heart Novitiate, a Jesuit seminary, intending to become a Catholic priest. However, Brown left the seminary and entered University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics in 1961. Brown went on to Yale Law School and graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1964.[5]
After law school, Brown worked as a law clerk for California Supreme Court Justice Mathew Tobriner and studied in Mexico and Latin America.
Legal career and entrance into politics[link]
Returning to California, Brown took the state bar exam and passed on his second attempt.[7] Brown then settled in Los Angeles and joined the law firm of Tuttle & Taylor. In 1969, Brown ran for the newly created Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees, which oversaw community colleges in the city, and placed first in a field of 124.[8]
In 1970, Brown was elected California Secretary of State. Brown argued before the California Supreme Court and won against Standard Oil of California, International Telephone and Telegraph, Gulf Oil, and Mobil for election law violations (Brown vs. Superior Court).[8] In addition, he forced legislators to comply with campaign disclosure laws. While holding this office, he discovered the use of falsely notarized documents to earn a tax deduction by then-President Richard Nixon. Brown also drafted and helped to pass the California Fair Political Practices Act, which established the California Fair Political Practices Commission.
Governor of California (1975–1983)[link]
First term[link]
In 1974, Brown was in a primary race with Speaker of the California Assembly Bob Moretti, San Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto, Representative Jerry Waldie, and others. Alioto had support in Northern California and Moretti in Southern California. Brown had the name recognition of his father, Pat Brown, whom Democrats fondly remembered for his progressive administration.[9] Brown won the primary, and in the General Election on November 5, 1974, Brown was elected Governor of California over California State Controller Houston I. Flournoy. Republicans ascribed the loss to anti-Republican feelings from Watergate, the election being held only ninety days after President Richard Nixon resigned from office. Brown succeeded Republican Governor Ronald Reagan, who had planned on retiring from office after serving two terms.[10] Eight years after his father left Sacramento in 1967, Jerry Brown took office on January 6, 1975.[11]
File:JerryBrownInauguration1975.jpg
California Chief Justice Donald Wright (left) swearing in Brown as Governor of California on January 6, 1975
After taking office, Brown gained a reputation as a fiscal conservative.[12] The American Conservative later noted he was "much more of a fiscal conservative than Governor Reagan."[13] His fiscal restraint resulted in one of the biggest budget surpluses in state history, roughly $5 billion.[14][15] For his personal life, Brown refused many of the privileges and perks of the office, forgoing the newly constructed governor's residence and instead renting a modest apartment at the corner of 14th and N Streets, adjacent to Capitol Park in downtown Sacramento.[16] Instead of riding as a passenger in a chauffeured limousine as previous governors had done, Brown drove to work in a Plymouth Satellite sedan.[17][18]
During his two-term, eight-year governorship, Brown held a strong interest in environmental issues. He appointed J. Baldwin to work in the newly created California Office of Appropriate Technology, Sim Van der Ryn as State Architect, and Stewart Brand as Special Advisor. Brown appointed John Bryson, later the CEO of Southern California Edison Electric Company and a founding member of the Natural Resources Defense Council, chairman of the California State Water Board in 1976. Brown also reorganized the California Arts Council, boosting its funding by 1300 percent and appointing artists to the council[8] and appointed more women and minorities to office than any other previous California governor.[8] In 1977, he sponsored the "first-ever tax incentive for rooftop solar" among many environmental intiatives.[19] In 1975, Brown obtained the repeal of the "depletion allowance", a tax break for the state's oil industry, despite the efforts of lobbyist Joe Shell, a former intraparty rival to Richard M. Nixon.[20]
Like his father, Brown strongly opposed the death penalty and vetoed it as Governor, which the legislature overrode in 1977. He also appointed judges who opposed capital punishment. One of these appointments, Rose Bird as the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, was recalled in 1986 by voters angry at her opposition to the death penalty. She and two other Brown appointed justices were the first such removals in California history.[21] In 1960, he had lobbied his father, then Governor, to spare the life of Caryl Chessman and reportedly won a 60-day stay for him.[22][23]
Brown was both in favor of a Balanced Budget Amendment and opposed to Proposition 13, the latter of which would decrease property taxes and greatly reduce revenue to cities and counties.[24] When Proposition 13 passed in June 1978, he heavily cut state spending and, along with the Legislature, spent much of the $5 billion surplus to meet the proposition's requirements and help offset the revenue losses which made cities, counties and schools more dependent on the state.[14][24] His actions in response to the proposition earned him praise from Proposition 13 author Howard Jarvis who went as far to make a television commercial for Brown just before his successful reelection bid in 1978.[24][25]
The controversial proposition immediately cut tax revenues and required a two-thirds supermajority to raise taxes.[26] Proposition 13 "effectively destroyed the funding base of local governments and school districts, which thereafter depended largely on Sacramento for their revenue".[27] Max Neiman, a professor at the Institute of Government Studies at University of California, Berkeley, credited Brown for "bailing out local government and school districts" but felt it was harmful "because it made it easier for people to believe that Proposition 13 wasn't harmful."[19]
Second term[link]
On November 7, 1978, Jerry Brown was re-elected governor. The Republican candidate was state Attorney General Evelle J. Younger, (1918–1989) a former Los Angeles County District Attorney. Jerry Brown had the attention of the state, national and international media.
Brown was responsible for appointing the first openly gay judge in the United States when he named Stephen Lachs to serve on the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1979.[28] In 1981, he also appointed the first openly lesbian judge in the United States, Mary C. Morgan of the San Francisco Municipal Court.[29] Brown completed his second term having appointed a total of five openly gay judges, including Rand Schrader and Jerold Krieger.[30][31] Brown had completed his first term as governor without appointing any openly gay people to any position, but he cited the failed 1978 Briggs Initiative, which sought to ban homosexuals from working in California's public schools, for his increased support of gay rights.[28]
File:E brownjr.jpg
Official gubernatorial portrait of Jerry Brown painted by Don Bachardy
Brown proposed the establishment of a state space academy and the purchasing of a satellite that would be launched into orbit to provide emergency communications for the state—a proposal similar to one that was indeed eventually adopted. In 1979, an out-of-state columnist, Mike Royko, then at the Chicago Sun-Times, picked up on the nickname from Brown's girlfriend at the time, Linda Ronstadt, who was quoted in a 1978 Rolling Stone magazine interview humorously calling him "Moonbeam".[32][33] A year later Royko expressed his regret for publicizing the nickname,[34] and in 1991 Royko disavowed it entirely, proclaiming Brown to be just as serious as any other politician.[35][36][37][38]
Brown chose not to run for a third term in 1982 and instead ran for the United States Senate, but lost to then San Diego mayor Pete Wilson. He was succeeded as governor by George Deukmejian, then the Attorney General of California, in 1983.
1976 Democratic presidential primary[link]
While serving as governor, Brown twice ran for the Democratic nomination for president. The first time, in 1976, Brown entered the race in March after the primary season had begun, and over a year after some candidates had started campaigning. Brown declared, "The country is rich, but not so rich as we have been led to believe. The choice to do one thing may preclude another. In short, we are entering an era of limits."[39][40]
Brown's name began appearing on primary ballots in May and he won big victories in Maryland, followed by Nevada, and his home state of California.[41] He missed the deadline in Oregon, but he ran as a write-in candidate and finished a strong third behind Jimmy Carter and Senator Frank Church of Idaho, another late candidate. Brown is often credited with winning the New Jersey and Rhode Island primaries, but in reality, uncommitted slates of delegates that Brown advocated in those states finished first. With support from Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, Brown won a majority of delegates at the Louisiana delegate selection convention; thus Louisiana was the only southern state to not support Southerners Carter or Alabama Governor George Wallace. Despite this success, he was unable to stall Carter's momentum, and his rival was nominated on the first ballot at the 1976 Democratic National Convention. Brown finished third with roughly 300 delegate votes, narrowly behind Congressman Morris Udall and well behind Carter. His name was placed in nomination by United Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez.
1980 Democratic presidential primary[link]
In 1980, Brown challenged Carter for renomination. His candidacy had been anticipated by the press ever since he won re-election as governor in 1978 over the Republican Evelle Younger by the biggest margin in California history, 1.3 million votes. But Brown had trouble gaining traction in both fundraising and polling for the presidential nomination. This was widely believed to be the result of the more prominent candidacy of liberal icon Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.
Brown's 1980 platform, which he declared to be the natural result of combining Buckminster Fuller's visions of the future and E. F. Schumacher's theory of "Buddhist economics", was much expanded from 1976. Gone was his "era of limits" slogan, replaced by a promise to, in his words, "Protect the Earth, serve the people, and explore the universe." Three main planks of his platform were a call for a constitutional convention to ratify the Balanced Budget Amendment, a promise to increase funds for the space program, and, in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, opposition to nuclear power. On the subject of the 1979 energy crisis, Brown decried the "Faustian bargain" that he claimed Carter had entered into with the oil industry, and declared that he would greatly increase federal funding of research into solar power. He endorsed the idea of mandatory non-military national service for the nation's youth, and suggested that the Defense Department cut back on support troops while beefing up the number of combat troops. He described the health care industry as a "high priesthood" engaged in a "medical arms race" and called for a market-oriented system of universal health care.
As his campaign began to attract more members of what some more conservative commentators described as "the fringe", including activists like Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, and Jesse Jackson, Brown's polling numbers began to suffer. Brown received only 10% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, and he was soon forced to announce that his decision to remain in the race would hinge on a good showing in the Wisconsin primary. Although he had polled well there throughout the primary season, an attempt to film a live speech in Madison, the state's capital, into a special effects-filled, 30-minute commercial (produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola) was disastrous.[42]
1980s[link]
In 1982, Brown chose not to seek a third term as Governor. Instead, Brown ran for the U.S. Senate for the seat being vacated by Republican S.I. Hayakawa. He was defeated by Republican San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson by a margin of 52% to 45%. After his Senate defeat, Brown was left with few political options.[43] Republican George Deukmejian, a Brown critic, narrowly won the governorship in 1982, succeeding Brown, and was reelected overwhelmingly in 1986. After his Senate defeat in 1982, many considered Brown's political career to be over.[43] Brown traveled to Japan to study Buddhism, studying with Christian/Zen practitioner Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle under Yamada Koun-roshi. In an interview he explained, "Since politics is based on illusions, zazen definitely provides new insights for a politician. I then come back into the world of California and politics, with critical distance from some of my more comfortable assumptions."[44] He also visited Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India, where he ministered to the sick in one of her hospices.[45] He explained, "Politics is a power struggle to get to the top of the heap. Calcutta and Mother Teresa are about working with those who are at the bottom of the heap. And to see them as no different than yourself, and their needs as important as your needs. And you're there to serve them, and doing that you are attaining as great a state of being as you can."[44]
Upon his return from abroad in 1988, Brown announced that he would stand as a candidate to become chairman of the California Democratic Party. Brown won the position in 1989 against investment banker Steve Westly.[46] Although Brown greatly expanded the party's donor base and enlarged its coffers, with a focus on grassroots organizing and get out the vote drives, he was criticized for not spending enough money on TV ads, which was felt to have contributed to Democratic losses in several close races in 1990. In early 1991, Brown abruptly resigned his post and announced that he would run for the Senate seat held by the retiring Alan Cranston. Although Brown consistently led in the polls for both the nomination and the general election, he abandoned the campaign, deciding instead to run for the presidency for a third time.
1992 Democratic presidential primary[link]
When Brown announced his intention to run for president against President George H.W. Bush, many in the media and his own party dismissed his campaign as having little chance of gaining significant support. Ignoring them, Brown embarked on an ultra-grassroots campaign to, in his words, "take back America from the confederacy of corruption, careerism, and campaign consulting in Washington".[47] Brown tapped into a populist streak in the Democratic Party.
In his stump speech, first used while officially announcing his candidacy on the steps of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Brown told listeners that he would only be accepting campaign contributions from individuals and that he would accept no contribution over $100.[48] Continuing with his populist reform theme, he assailed what he dubbed "the bipartisan Incumbent Party in Washington" and called for term limits for members of Congress. Citing various recent scandals on Capitol Hill, particularly the recent House banking scandal and the large congressional pay-raises from 1990, he promised to put an end to Congress being a "Stop-and-Shop for the moneyed special interests".
As Brown campaigned in various primary states, he would eventually expand his platform beyond a policy of strict campaign finance reform. Although he would focus on a variety of issues throughout the campaign, most especially his endorsement of living wage laws and his opposition to free trade agreements such as North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), he mostly concentrated on his tax policy, which had been created specifically for him by Arthur Laffer, the famous supporter of supply-side economics who created the Laffer curve. This plan, which called for the replacement of the progressive income tax with a flat tax and a value added tax, both at a fixed 13% rate, was decried by his opponents as regressive. Nevertheless, it was endorsed by The New York Times, The New Republic, and Forbes, and its raising of taxes on corporations and elimination of various loopholes which tended to favor the very wealthy, proved to be popular with voters. This was, perhaps, not surprising, as various opinion polls taken at the time found that as many as three-quarters of all Americans believed the current tax code to be unfairly biased toward the wealthy.
Quickly realizing that his campaign's limited budget meant that he could not afford to engage in conventional advertising, Brown began to use a mixture of alternative media and unusual fund raising techniques. Unable to pay for actual commercials, he used frequent cable television and talk radio interviews as a form of free media to get his message to the voters. In order to raise funds, he purchased a toll-free telephone number, (the same number is still in use by Brown) which adorned all of his campaign paraphernalia.[49] During the campaign, Brown's repetition of this number combined with the moralistic language used, led some to describe him as a "political televangelist" with a "anti-politics gospel".[50]
Despite poor showings in the Iowa caucus (1.6%) and the New Hampshire primary (8.0%), Brown soon managed to win narrow victories in Maine, Colorado, Nevada, Alaska, and Vermont, but he continued to be considered an also-ran for much of the campaign. It was not until shortly after Super Tuesday, when the field had been narrowed to Brown, former Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, and frontrunning Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas, that Brown began to emerge as a major contender in the eyes of the press. On March 17, Brown forced Tsongas from the race when he received a strong third-place showing in the Illinois primary and then defeated the senator for second place in the Michigan primary by a wide margin. Exactly one week later, he cemented his position as a major threat to Clinton when he eked out a narrow win in the bitterly-fought Connecticut primary.
As the press focused on the primaries in New York and Wisconsin, which were both to be held on the same day, Brown, who had taken the lead in polls in both states, made a gaffe: he announced to an audience of various leaders of New York City's Jewish community that, if nominated, he would consider the Reverend Jesse Jackson as a vice-presidential candidate.[51] Jackson, who had made a pair of comments that were perceived to be anti-Semitic about Jews in general and New York City's Jews in particular while running for president in 1984, was still despised in Jewish communities. Jackson also had ties to Louis Farrakhan, who said Judaism was a "gutter religion," and with Yasir Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.[51] Brown's polling numbers suffered. On April 7, he lost narrowly to Bill Clinton in Wisconsin (37–34), and dramatically in New York (41–26).
Although Brown continued to campaign in a number of states, he won no further primaries. Although overwhelmingly outspent, Brown won upset victories in seven states and his votes won to money raised ratio was by far the best of any candidate in the race.[52] He still had a sizable number of delegates, and a big win in his home state of California would deprive Clinton of sufficient support to win the Democratic nomination, possibly bringing about a brokered convention. After nearly a month of intense campaigning and multiple debates between the two candidates, Clinton managed to defeat Brown in this final primary by a margin of 48% to 41%. Although Brown did not win the nomination, he was able to boast of one accomplishment: At the following month's Democratic National Convention, he received the votes of 596 delegates on the first ballot, more than any other candidate but Clinton. He spoke at the convention, and to the national viewing audience, yet without endorsing Clinton, through the device of seconding his own nomination. There was animosity between the Brown and Clinton campaigns, and Brown was the first political figure to criticize Bill Clinton over what became the Whitewater controversy.[49]
Mayor of Oakland (1999–2007)[link]
What was to become Brown's re-emergence into politics after six years was also the start of the renaissance of Oakland, California, a down-on-its-luck "overwhelmingly minority city of 400,000."[53] Brown ran as an independent "having left the Democratic Party, blasting what he called the 'deeply corrupted' two-party system."[53] Prior to taking office, Brown campaigned to get the approval of the electorate to convert Oakland's weak mayor political structure, which structured the mayor as chairman of the city council and official greeter, to a strong mayor structure, where the mayor would act as chief executive over the nonpolitical city manager and thus the various city departments, and break tie votes on the Oakland City Council.[53] He won with 59% of the vote in a field of ten candidates.[53] The political left had hoped for some of the more progressive politics from Brown's earlier governorship, but found Brown "more pragmatic than progressive, more interested in downtown redevelopment and economic growth than political ideology".[54]
The city was rapidly losing residents and businesses, and Brown is credited with starting the revitalization of the city using his connections and experience to lessen the economic downturn, while attracting $1 billion of investments, including refurbishing Fox Theater (Oakland), the Port of Oakland and Jack London Square.[53] The downtown district was losing retailers, restaurateurs and residential developers, and Brown sought to attract thousands of new residents with disposable income to revitalize the area.[55] Brown continued his predecessor Elihu Harris's public policy of supporting downtown housing development in the area defined as the Central Business District in Oakland's 1998 General Plan.[56] Since Brown worked toward the stated goal of bringing an additional 10,000 residents to Downtown Oakland, his plan was known as "10K." It has resulted in redevelopment projects in the Jack London District, where Brown purchased and later sold an industrial warehouse which he used as a personal residence,[53] and in the Lakeside Apartments District near Lake Merritt. The 10k plan has touched the historic Old Oakland district, the Chinatown district, the Uptown district, and Downtown. Brown surpassed the stated goal of attracting 10,000 residents according to city records, and built more affordable housing than previous mayoral administrations.[55]
Brown had campaigned on fixing Oakland's schools, but "bureaucratic battles" dampened his efforts. He concedes he never had control of the schools, and his reform efforts were "largely a bust".[53] He focused instead on the creation of two charter schools, the Oakland School for the Arts and the Oakland Military Institute.[53] Another area of disappointment was overall crime. Brown sponsored nearly two dozen crime initiatives to reduce the crime rate.[57] Although he did decrease crime by 13 percent overall, and increased the police force, the city still suffered a "57 percent spike in homicides his final year in office, to 148".[53] Critics were unable to convince voters in the 2006 race for attorney general that he was responsible for the increased crime rate.[53]
Attorney General (2007–2011)[link]
In 2004, Brown expressed interest to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General of California in the 2006 election. In May 2004, he formally filed. He had an active Democratic primary opponent, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, who put most of his money into TV ads attacking Brown and spent $4.1 million on the primary campaign. Brown defeated Delgadillo, 63% to 37%. In the general election, Brown defeated Republican State Senator Charles Poochigian 56.3% to 38.2%, which was one of the largest margins of victory in any statewide California race.[58] In the final weeks leading up to Election Day, Brown's eligibility to run for Attorney General was challenged in what Brown called a "political stunt by a Republican office seeker" (Contra Costa County Republican Central Committee chairman and state GOP vice-chair candidate Tom Del Beccaro). Plaintiffs claimed Brown did not meet eligibility according to California Government Code §12503, "No person shall be eligible to the office of Attorney General unless he shall have been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the state for a period of at least five years immediately preceding his election or appointment to such office." Legal analysts called the lawsuit frivolous because Brown was admitted to practice law in the State of California on June 14, 1965, and had been so admitted to practice ever since. Although ineligible to practice law because of his voluntary inactive status in the State Bar of California from January 1, 1997 to May 1, 2003, he was nevertheless still admitted to practice. Because of this difference the case was eventually thrown out.[59][60]
As Attorney General, Brown was obligated to represent the state in fighting death penalty appeals and stated that he would follow the law, regardless of his personal beliefs against capital punishment.[22] Some legal scholars note that under current law the Attorney General does not have much discretion over death penalty cases.[61] Capital punishment by lethal injection was halted in California by federal judge Jeremy D. Fogel until new facilities and procedures were put into place.[62] Brown moved to resume capital punishment in 2010 with the execution of Albert Greenwood Brown after the lifting of a statewide moratorium by a California court.[63] Brown's Democratic campaign, which pledged to "enforce the laws" of California, denied any connection between the case and the gubernatorial election. Prosecutor Rod Pacheco, who supported Republican opponent Meg Whitman, said that it would be unfair to accuse Jerry Brown of using the execution for political gain as they never discussed the case.[64]
In June 2008 Brown filed a fraud lawsuit claiming mortgage lender Countrywide Financial engaged in "unfair and deceptive" practices to get homeowners to apply for risky mortgages far beyond their means."[65][66] Brown accused the lender of breaking the state's laws against false advertising and unfair business practices. The lawsuit also claims the defendant misled many consumers by misinforming them about the workings of certain mortgages such adjustable-rate mortgages, interest-only loans, low-documentation loans and home-equity loans while telling borrowers they would be able to refinance before the interest rate on their loans adjusted.[67] The suit was settled in October 2008 after Bank of America acquired Countrywide. The settlement involves the modifying of troubled 'predatory loans' up to $8.4 billion dollars.[68]
Proposition 8, a contentious voter-approved amendment to the state constitution that banned same-sex marriage was upheld in May 2009 by the California Supreme Court.[69][70] In August 2010, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Proposition 8 violated the Due Process and the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[71] Brown and Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have declined to appeal the ruling.[72] The state appeals court declined to order the men to defend the proposition and scheduled a hearing in early December to see if there is "legal standing to appeal Walker's ruling."[73]
2010 gubernatorial campaign[link]
Main article: California gubernatorial election, 2010
Brown announced his candidacy for governor on March 2, 2010.[74] First indicating his interest in early 2008, Brown formed an exploratory committee in order to seek a third term as Governor in 2010, following the expiration of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's term.[75][76]
Brown's Republican opponent in the election was former eBay president Meg Whitman. On October 3, 2010, Brown was endorsed by the Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee, and the San Francisco Chronicle.[77][78][79] He was endorsed by the San Jose Mercury News on October 10.[80] He was also endorsed by the Service Employees International Union - CA.[81] Independent groups broke campaign spending records, with contributions totaling more than $31.7 million. Approximately $25 million went to support Gov. Brown's campaign.[82] Brown also received the support of a number of prominent Republicans such as Los Angeles businessman Rick J. Caruso.[83]
On November 2, 2010, Jerry Brown won the governorship for a third, non-consecutive term.[84]
Governor of California (2011–present)[link]
Brown was sworn in for his third term as governor on January 3, 2011, succeeding Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. He will be up for re-election in 2014. Brown is working on a budget that would shift many government programs from the state to the local level, a reversal of trends from his first tenure as governor.[85]
In 2011 Governor Brown successfully nominated Goodwin Liu to the California Supreme Court.[86]
Electoral history[link]
Main article: Electoral history of Jerry Brown
- 1970: Elected as California Secretary of State with 51% of the vote
- 1974: Won Democratic primary for Governor of California with 38% of the vote
- 1974: Elected as Governor of California with 50% of the vote
- 1976: Lost Democratic presidential primaries to Jimmy Carter, finishing second with a nationwide 14% of the vote
- 1978: Won Democratic primary for Governor of California as an incumbent, with 78% of the vote
- 1978: Reelected as Governor of California with 56% of the vote
- 1980: Lost Democratic presidential primaries to Jimmy Carter, finishing third with a nationwide 3% of the vote
- 1982: Won Democratic primary for Senator from California with 51% of the vote
- 1982: Lost California Senate election to Pete Wilson, with 45% of the vote
- 1992: Lost Democratic presidential primaries to Bill Clinton, finishing second with a nationwide 20% of the vote
- 1998: Elected Mayor of Oakland with 59% of the vote
- 2002: Reelected Mayor of Oakland with 63% of the vote
- 2006: Won Democratic primary for California Attorney General with 63% of the vote
- 2006: Elected California Attorney General with 56% of the vote
- 2010: Won Democratic primary for Governor of California with 84% of the vote
- 2010: Elected as Governor of California with 53% of the vote
Personal life[link]
A bachelor as governor and mayor, Brown achieved some prominence in gossip columns for dating high-profile women, the most notable of whom was the singer Linda Ronstadt.[87]
Beginning in 1995, Brown hosted a daily call-in talk show on the local Pacifica Radio station, KPFA-FM, in Berkeley broadcast to major US markets.[44] Both the radio program and Brown's political action organization, based in Oakland, were called We the People.[44] His programs, usually featuring invited guests, generally explored alternative views on a wide range of social and political issues, from education and health care to spirituality and the death penalty.[44]
Brown has a long-term friendship with Jacques Barzaghi, his aide-de-camp, whom he met in the early 1970s and put on his payroll. Author Roger Rapaport wrote in his 1982 Brown biography California Dreaming: The Political Odyssey of Pat & Jerry Brown, "this combination clerk, chauffeur, fashion consultant, decorator and trusted friend had no discernible powers. Yet late at night, after everyone had gone home to their families and TV consoles, it was Jacques who lingered in the Secretary (of state's) office." Barzaghi and his sixth wife Aisha lived with Brown in the warehouse in Jack London Square; Barzaghi was brought into Oakland city government upon Brown's election as mayor, where Barzaghi first acted as the mayor's armed bodyguard. Brown later rewarded Barzaghi with high-paying city jobs, including Arts Director[citation needed]. Brown dismissed Barzaghi in July 2004.[88]
In March 2005, Brown announced his engagement to his girlfriend since 1990, Anne Gust, former chief administrative officer for The Gap.[89] They were married on June 18 in a ceremony officiated by Senator Dianne Feinstein in the Rotunda Building in downtown Oakland. They had a second, religious ceremony later in the day in the Roman Catholic church in San Francisco where Brown's parents had been married. Brown and Gust live in the Oakland Hills in a home purchased for $1.8 million, as reported by The Huffington Post.[90]
On April 29, 2011, Brown had surgery to remove a basal-cell carcinoma from the right side of his nose.[91]
References[link]
- ^ Coté, John (December 31, 2010). "Lt. Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom to be sworn in by Jan. 10". SFGate.com (Hearst Newspapers). http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=80090. Retrieved January 3, 2010.
- ^ Pack, Robert (1978). Jerry Brown, the philosopher-prince. Stein and Day. ISBN 978-0-8128-2437-7. "A story appeared in the New York Times on May 16, 1976, reporting that Brown 'now admits he is no longer a practicing Roman Catholic.' The Times story prompted a member of the staff of The Monitor, the newspaper of the archdiocese of San Francisco, to query Brown, whose answer was, "I was born a Catholic. I was raised a Catholic. I am a Catholic."
- ^ "California Constitution, Article V, Section II". http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.const/.article_5. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
- ^ In 1990, California voters passed a law limiting governors and other statewide elected officials to two four-year terms, but Brown's prior service was not counted under the term-limits law, because he was elected to his first two terms before the law was passed.Term Limits Thus, if he serves as Governor past October 7, 2013, he will become the longest-serving Governor in the state's past and future (passing Earl Warren, who served 2 1/2 terms from 1943 to 1953), unless term limits are repealed at some point or George Deukmejian decides to run for another term. No one else will be able to serve longer than Brown is likely to serve, due to the term limits, as Brown and Deukmejian are the only living California Governors who were elected before the term-limits law was passed. "Earl Warren biography". Earl Warren College. http://warren.ucsd.edu/about/biography.html. Retrieved January 17, 2011. "Jerry Brown". Joincalifornia.com. http://www.joincalifornia.com/candidate/2883. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- ^ a b Cummings, Reddy, Stephen, Patrick (September 14, 2009). California after Arnold. Algora Publishing. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-87586-739-7.
- ^ Rarick 2006, pp. 8, 30
- ^ Dolan, Maura (21 February 2006). "A High Bar for Lawyers". Los Angeles Times: p. 3. http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/21/local/me-bar21. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Edmund G. Brown, Jr.". California Office of the Attorney General. http://ag.ca.gov/ag/brown.php. Retrieved 2009-11-19. [dead link]
- ^ Kotkin, Joel (2010-12-30). "California’s Third Brown Era - Joel Kotkin - New Geographer - Forbes". Blogs.forbes.com. http://blogs.forbes.com/joelkotkin/2011/01/03/californias-third-brown-era/. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
- ^ Reagan had become governor after defeating Brown's father, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Sr., in the 1966 election. Pat Brown had defeated political heavyweights in his prior two election victories, United States Senator William F. Knowland in 1958 and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon in 1962.
- ^ Brown, Jerry (1975-01-06). "Inaugural Address". Governors of California. State of California. http://www.californiagovernors.ca.gov/h/documents/inaugural_34.html. Retrieved 2009-11-19. [dead link]
- ^ Shoemaker, Dick (August 23, 1975). "Gov. Brown, California". ABC News.
- ^ Walker, Jesse (November 1, 2009). "Five Faces of Jerry Brown". American Conservative. http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/nov/01/00012/.
- ^ a b Young, Samantha (September 27, 2010). "Brown, Whitman prepare for gubernatorial debate". Associated Press / San Jose Mercury News. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16188880?nclick_check=1.
- ^ "A vote for experience over a big leap of faith". San Francisco Chronicle. October 3, 2010. http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-10-03/opinion/24109576_1_tough-decisions-jerry-brown-tax-revolt.
- ^ Bachelis 1986, p. 68
- ^ Steinhauer, Jennifer (December 5, 2009). "4 Ex-Governors Craving Jobs of Yore". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/us/politics/06govs.html. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
- ^ "Jerry Brown Meets Sgt. York & Flavor Flav". CalBuzz. December 10, 2009. http://www.calbuzz.com/2009/12/jerry-brown-meets-sgt-york-flavor-flav/. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
- ^ a b By COLIN SULLIVAN of Greenwire (2010-10-08). "Jerry Brown's Environmental Record Runs Deep". NYTimes.com. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/10/08/08greenwire-jerry-browns-environmental-record-runs-deep-44334.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ The decisive vote against the allowance was cast in the California State Senate by the usually pro-business Republican Senator Robert S. Stevens. Shell claimed that Stevens had promised him that he would support keeping the allowance: "He had shaken my hand and told me he was with me." Brown later rewarded Stevens with a judicial appointment, but Stevens was driven from the bench for making salacious telephone calls.Walters, Dan (2008-04-08). "For Joe Shell, character trumped ideology in California politics". The Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on 2008-04-23. http://web.archive.org/web/20080423035846/http://www.sacbee.com/walters/story/844451.html.
- ^ Purdum, Todd (1999-12-06). "Rose Bird, Once California's Chief Justice, Is Dead at 63". New York Times: pp. 1–3. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/06/us/rose-bird-once-california-s-chief-justice-is-dead-at-63.html. Retrieved 2010-10-29.
- ^ a b Zamora, Jim Herron (2006-06-02). "Brown's rivals question commitment to death penalty". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/02/BAGOTJ685P1.DTL. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
- ^ Lewis, Anthony (1989-08-20). "He Was Their Last Resort". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/20/books/he-was-their-last-resort.html. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
- ^ a b c Skelton, George (March 4, 2010). "The parable of 'Jerry Jarvis'". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/04/local/la-me-cap4-2010mar04.
- ^ Harris, Don (October 10, 1978). NBC News.
- ^ McKinley, Jesse (March 13, 2010). "A Candidate Finds Much Changed, and Little". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/us/14calif.html.
- ^ Meyerson, Harold (May 28, 2009) "How the Golden State Got Tarnished." Washington Post. Retrieved 7-22-09.
- ^ a b Clendinen, Dudley; Nagourney, Adam. Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America. Simon & Schuster. pp. 411–412. ISBN 978-0-684-81091-1.
- ^ Jim Schroeder, Twenty-five years of courtroom trauma The Advocate (August 23, 1994).
- ^ Tracy Wilkinson, Municipal Court Judge Faces Challenge of AIDS - Disease, The Los Angeles Times (November 25, 1991).
- ^ Myrna Oliver, Judge Jerold Krieger, 58; Activist Helped Open Gay-Lesbian Temple, The Los Angeles Times (February 20, 2002).
- ^ "Zach Friend: California Governor's Race: Why Moonbeam Will Win". Huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zach-friend/california-governors-race_b_611344.html. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ Royko, Mike (April 23, 1979). "OUR LATEST EXPORT: GOV. MOONBEAM--ER, BROWN". Los Angeles Times: p. C11.
- ^ Royko, Mike (August 17, 1980). "Gov. Moonbeam Has Landed". Los Angeles Times: p. E5.
- ^ McKinley, Jesse (March 7, 2010). "How Jerry Brown Became ‘Governor Moonbeam’". The New York Times: p. WK5. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/weekinreview/07mckinley.html. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
- ^ Royko, Mike (September 10, 1991). "Time to eclipse the 'moonbeam' label". Las Vegas Review-Journal: p. 6.b. "By now, the label had surely faded away, especially since Brown is obviously a serious man and every bit as normal as the next candidate, if not more so."
- ^ Some notable figures were given priority, correspondence access to him in either advisory or personal roles. These included, United Farm Workers of America founder Cesar Chavez, Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard, labor leader Jack Henning, and Charles Manatt, then-Chairman of the California State Democratic Party. Mail was routed as VIP to be delivered directly to the governor. However, it unclear as to exactly how long this may have occurred.Chase Davis, California Watch (October 13, 2010). "List reveals who had Jerry Brown's ear in '79". Sfgate.com. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/09/MN7E1FOJK7.DTL. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ In 1979 San Francisco punk band the Dead Kennedys' first single, "California Über Alles", was released; it was performed from the perspective of then-governor Brown painting a picture of a hippie-fascist state, satirizing what they considered his mandating of liberal ideas in a fascist manner, commenting on what lyricist Jello Biafra saw as the corrosive nature of power. The imaginary Brown had become President Brown presiding over secret police and gas chambers. Biafra later said in an interview with Nardwuar that he now feels differently about Brown; as it turned out Brown was not as bad as Biafra thought he would be, and subsequent songs have been written about other politicians deemed worse.Ruskin, John (2002). "Nardwuar the Human Serviette vs Jello Biafra". Nardwuar. http://www.nardwuar.com/vs/jello_biafra/jello-2002_page-2.html. Retrieved 2009-04-21.
- ^ Nolte, Carl (May 30, 1999). "California rides the wave". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1999/05/30/SC48827.DTL. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
- ^ Schmalz, Jeffrey (March 30, 1992). "THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate's Record; Brown Firm on What He Believes, But What He Believes Often Shifts". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/30/us/1992-campaign-candidate-s-record-brown-firm-what-he-believes-but-what-he.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
- ^ View archival news footage of Brown's campaign speech in Union Square, San Francisco on May 25th 1976: http://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/189401.
- ^ "Jerry Brown Francis Ford Coppola Comercial" (Search Result). Google News. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LoQwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4PoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3829,2892425&dq=jerry-brown+francis-ford-coppola+commercial&hl=en. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ a b "Brown beaten in Senate bid". Eugene Register-Guard. Associated Press. November 2, 1982. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PccUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JuIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5798,434388&dq=jerry-brown+pete-wilson&hl=en. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
- ^ a b c d e Branfman, Fred (1996-06-03). "The SALON Interview: Jerry Brown - Salon.com". Dir.salon.com. http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/1996/06/03/interview960603/. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ "Jerry Brown: On a quest for change". The Times-News. Associated Press. March 6, 1992. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9OUiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SyQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6799,1076438&dq=jerry-brown+mother-teresa&hl=en. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
- ^ "JERRY BROWN WINS STATE PARTY POST". The New York Times. February 13, 1989. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA071EF8395D0C708DDDAB0894D1484D81. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
- ^ The CQ guide to current American government, Volume 49. Books.google.com. 2008-10-13. http://books.google.com/books?id=Dr2FAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ Chase Davis, California Watch (October 13, 2010). "List reveals who had Jerry Brown's ear in '79". Sfgate.com. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/09/MN7E1FOJK7.DTL. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ a b Bradley, William (25 May 2008). "The OTHER Big Problem With Hillary's Notorious Remarks". The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/the-other-big-problem-wit_b_103478.html. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- ^ "Brown Enters Race as Leader Against 'Corrupt Politics'", Associated Press, Oct 22, 1991. Page A3.
- ^ a b Dowd, Maureen (1992-04-03). "THE 1992 CAMPAIGN - Brown - Candidate Is Tripped Up Over Alliance With Jackson - NYTimes.com". New York State: Select.nytimes.com. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10614F839540C708CDDAD0894DA494D81. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ "Mike Lux: A Modern Populist Movement". Huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux/a-modern-populist-movemen_b_639408.html. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Jerry Brown's years as Oakland mayor set stage for political comeback - San Jose Mercury News". Mercurynews.com. 2010-08-29. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15916879?nclick_check=1. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ Johnson, Chip (2005-10-07). "City awaits word from Dellums - SFGate". Articles.sfgate.com. http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-10-07/bay-area/17397166_1_dellums-oakland-mayor-mayoral-candidate. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ a b Heredia, Christopher (2006-02-19). "CAMPAIGN 2006: Oakland Mayor / Candidates agree on increasing housing / They differ on how to assist middle-, low-income families - SFGate". Articles.sfgate.com. http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-02-19/bay-area/17282981_1_affordable-housing-mixed-income-market-rate-housing. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ Robert Gammon (3 January 2007). "Inflating the Numbers, The Brown administration came very close on the 10K Plan. So why the grade inflation?". East Bay Express. http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/inflating_the_numbers/Content?oid=323334.
- ^ Johnson, Chip (2010-03-09). "Jerry Brown is ex-mayor, not Gov. Moonbeam - SFGate". Articles.sfgate.com. http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-03-09/bay-area/18381607_1_jerry-brown-pat-brown-cure-social-ills. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ McPherson, Bruce. ""Statement of Vote", 2006" (PDF). Elections & Voter Information. California Secretary of State's Office. http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/sov/2006_general/complete_sov.pdf. Retrieved 2007-06-12.
- ^ "Editorial: GOP Volunteers Disgrace Party by Opposition to Kennard, Suit Against Brown". Metropolitan News-Enterprise: p. 6. October 23, 2006. http://www.metnews.com/articles/2006/editorial102006.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-12.
- ^ Richman, Josh (February 10, 2007). "Judge dismisses suit against Brown". InsideBayArea.com. http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_5201111. Retrieved 2007-06-12.
- ^ "CAMPAIGN 2006: State attorney general / Brown's rivals question commitment to death penalty / He says regardless of his past, he'd enforce the law". The San Francisco Chronicle. August 27, 2010. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/02/BAGOTJ685P1.DTL.
- ^ Williams, Carol J. (2010-09-22). "Clock is ticking on first execution at San Quentin's revamped death chamber". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/22/local/la-me-lethal-injection-chamber-20100922. Retrieved 2010-09-26.
- ^ "Brown Wants Executions To Resume In California". Associated Press. CBS News. 2010-09-22. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/21/ap/national/main6888788.shtml. Retrieved 2010-09-27. [dead link]
- ^ Elias, Paul (2010-09-25). "Timing of Calif. Execution Questioned". Time. Associated Press. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2021510,00.html. Retrieved 2010-09-27.
- ^ "State's suit to target mortgage lender for unfair practices". Chicago Tribune. 2008-06-25. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-mortgage_suit_25jun25,0,3774900.story. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
- ^ "Illinois AG sues Countrywide over lending practices". Chicago Tribune. Associated Press. 2008-06-25. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-countrywide-illinois-lawsuit,0,4219028.story. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
- ^ "California sues Countrywide". CNN Money.com. 2008-06-25. http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/25/real_estate/countrywide_california.ap/index.htm?section=money_latest. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
- ^ Updated 51 minutes ago 11/18/2010 9:49:54 PM +00:00 (2008-10-06). ""BofA to pay $8 billion over subprime suit",'MSNBC', October 6, 2008". MSNBC. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27050659/. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ "Calif. Sup. Ct. arguments on Prop. 8, at a glance". Associated Press. 2009-03-01. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/mar/02/ca-gay-marriage-glance-030209/?zIndex=60748. Retrieved 2010-08-06.
- ^ "California high court upholds same-sex marriage ban". CNN.com. May 26, 2009. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/26/california.same.sex.marriage/index.html?iref=mpstoryview. Retrieved 2009-05-26.
- ^ "N:\Katharine Van Dusen\Civil\Perry v Schwarzenegger 09-2292\Findings\FF & CL FINAL.wpd" (PDF). https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/09cv2292/files/09cv2292-ORDER.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
- ^ Thompson, Don. "Calif. attorney general hopefuls clash in debate". San Jose Mercury News. http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_16260116. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ "Court: Calif. need not defend Prop 8". UPI.com. 2010-09-03. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/09/03/Court-Calif-need-not-defend-Prop-8/UPI-98841283559390/. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ Kernis, Jay (March 2, 2010). "Intriguing people for March 2, 2010". CNN (Turner Broadcasting). http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/02/mip.tuesday/. Retrieved March 6, 2010.
- ^ "The Anti-Governor: Jerry Brown wants to be governor of California again". The Economist. 12 June 2008. http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11551735.
- ^ The fact that he has served two terms already does not affect him because Proposition 140 does not apply to those who had served as public officials before the law passed in 1990, as provided in Article 20, Section 7 of the California Constitution.Term limits
- ^ Jerry Brown for governor, editorial, Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2010
- ^ Endorsements: Jerry Brown best pick for governor, editorial, The Sacramento Bee, October 3, 2010
- ^ Chronicle Recommends Jerry Brown for Governor, editorial, San Francisco Chronicle, October 3
- ^ Jerry Brown is the right choice for governor, editorial, San Jose Mercury News, October 10, 2010
- ^ "Rebuild California: SEIU Voter Guide". Draft.seiuca.org. http://draft.seiuca.org/politics/Rebuild_California__SEIU_Voter_Guide.aspx. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ "Independent spending for 2010 campaign sets record". Los Angeles Times. November 2, 2010. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/11/independent-spending-for-2010-campaign-sets-record-.html.
- ^ "L.A. Now". Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/rick-caruso-crosses-party-lines-backs-jerry-brown-for-governor.html.
- ^ "Brown, Newsom, Boxer elected". The Stanford Daily. http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/11/03/brown-newsom-boxer-elected/. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
- ^ Jesse McKinley. "The New York Times".01/10/2011. "[1]". 01/16/2011.
- ^ Bob EgelkoThe San Francisco Chronicle.07/27/11. "
- ^ "Jerry Brown and Linda Ronstadt". Ronstadt-linda.com. http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/newsweek79.htm. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
- ^ "Steve Rubenstein and Janine DeFeo, "Barzaghi Departs Jerry Brown Staff", ''San Francisco Chronicle'' (July 20, 2004)". Articles.sfgate.com. 2004-07-20. http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-07-20/bay-area/17436614_1_jacques-barzaghi-oakland-mayor-jerry-brown-brown-s-press-aide. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ Garchik, Leah (June 19, 2005). "Oakland's royal wedding: Nearly 600 attend Jerry Brown's nuptials". San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA). http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/19/JERRYBROWN.TMP. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ^ Young, Samantha (2010-06-22) "Jerry Brown House, Worth $1.8 Million, Doesn't Fit California Governor Candidate's Tale Of Frugality", The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
- ^ "PolitiCal". Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2011/04/gov-jerry-brown-undergoes-surgery-to-remove-cancerous-growth.html.
Bibliography[link]
- Bollens, John C. and G. Robert Williams. Jerry Brown: In a Plain Brown Wrapper (Pacific Palisades, California: Palisades Publishers, 1978). ISBN 0-913530-12-3
- Brown, Governor Jerry. Thoughts (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1976)
- Brown, Jerry. Dialogues (Berkeley, California: Berkeley Hills Books, 1998). ISBN 0-9653774-9-0
- Bachelis, Faren Maree (1986). The Pelican Guide to Sacramento and the Gold Country. Pelican. ISBN 0-88289-497-8. http://books.google.com/books?id=0amolLa9xGkC
- Lorenz, J. D. Jerry Brown: The Man on the White Horse (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1978). ISBN 0-395-25767-0
- McDonald, Heather. "Jerry Brown’s No-Nonsense New Age for Oakland", City Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4, Autumn 1999.
- Pack, Robert. Jerry Brown, The Philosopher-Prince (New York: Stein and Day, 1978). ISBN 0-8128-2437-7
- Rapoport, Roger. California Dreaming: The Political Odyssey of Pat & Jerry Brown (Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 1982) ISBN 0-917316-48-7
- Rarick, Ethan (2006). California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown. Berkeley, California, United States: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24828-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=vo99tTE2lDcC
- Schell, Orville. Brown (New York: Random House, 1978). ISBN 0-394-41043-2
External links[link]
|
|
This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. (January 2011) |
 |
Wikinews has related news: Jerry Brown defeats Meg Whitman in election for California governorship |
 |
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Jerry Brown |
- Office of Governor Jerry Brown Official California government site
- Jerry Brown 2010 official gubernatorial campaign site
- Biography at the National Governors Association
- Biography, interest group ratings, public statements, vetoes and campaign finances at Project Vote Smart
- Biography at WhoRunsGov.com at The Washington Post
- Issue positions and quotes at On the Issues
- Campaign contributions at FollowTheMoney.org
- Appearances on C-SPAN programs
- Appearances at the Internet Movie Database
- Collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Works by or about Jerry Brown in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Blog at TypePad (last entry October 8, 2005)
- Blog at Huffington Post (last entry October 21, 2009)
- Articles
- Newsmaker of the Week: Jerry Brown, SCVTV, May 31, 2006 (video interview 30:00)
- "Jerry Brown envisions still another public role", Christian Science Monitor, November 6, 2006
- "New office, but vintage Jerry Brown, Tim Reiterman, Los Angeles Times, August 19, 2007
- "Sacramento Dreaming Again, George F. Will, The Washington Post, August 7, 2008
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by H. P. Sullivan Acting |
Secretary of State of California 1971–1975 |
Succeeded by March Fong Eu |
| Preceded by Ronald Reagan |
Governor of California 1975–1983 |
Succeeded by George Deukmejian |
| Preceded by Elihu Harris |
Mayor of Oakland 1999–2007 |
Succeeded by Ronald Dellums |
| Preceded by Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Governor of California 2011–present |
Incumbent |
| Legal offices | ||
| Preceded by Bill Lockyer |
Attorney General of California 2007–2011 |
Succeeded by Kamala Harris |
| Party political offices | ||
| Preceded by Jesse Unruh |
Democratic nominee for Governor of California 1974, 1978 |
Succeeded by Tom Bradley |
| Preceded by John Tunney |
Democratic nominee for Senator from California (Class 1) 1982 |
Succeeded by Leo McCarthy |
| Preceded by Phil Angelides |
Democratic nominee for Governor of California 2010 |
Most recent |
| United States order of precedence | ||
| Preceded by Joe Biden as Vice President |
Order of Precedence of the United States Within California |
Succeeded by Mayor of city in which event is held |
| Succeeded by Otherwise John Boehner as Speaker of the House of Representatives |
||
| Preceded by Scott Walker as Governor of Wisconsin |
Order of Precedence of the United States Outside California |
Succeeded by Mark Dayton as Governor of Minnesota |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Brown, Edmund Gerald, Jr. |
| Alternative names | Brown, Jerry |
| Short description | Governor of California |
| Date of birth | April 7, 1938 |
| Place of birth | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
http://wn.com/Jerry_Brown
Related pages:
http://it.wn.com/Jerry Brown
http://es.wn.com/Jerry Brown
http://ru.wn.com/Браун, Джерри
http://nl.wn.com/Jerry Brown
http://pt.wn.com/Jerry Brown
http://pl.wn.com/Jerry Brown
http://fr.wn.com/Jerry Brown
http://de.wn.com/Jerry Brown
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Brown
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
