The Unorthodox Political Career of Jerry Brown

Political Family
The son of California Governor Edmund Gerald Brown Sr., who served from 1958 to 1966, Edmund Jr., known as Jerry, attended a seminary and worked at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm before pursuing a career in politics. He is pictured at left here with, from left, his mother Bernice, his father (known as Pat) and his sister Kathy.

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