California Governors

The Governor of California is the chief executive of the California state government, whose responsibilities include making annual State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced.

There have been 39 governors; many have been influential nationwide in areas far-flung from politics. Leland Stanford founded Stanford University in 1891. Earl Warren, later Chief Justice of the United States, won an election with the nominations of the three major parties – the only person ever to run essentially unopposed for governor of California. Ronald Reagan, who was president of the Screen Actors Guild and later President of the United States, and Arnold Schwarzenegger both came to prominence through acting. Gray Davis was the first governor of California, and second governor in American history, to be recalled by voters. The longest term was Earl Warren's, who was elected three times and served nearly ten years. The shortest term was that of Milton Latham, who served only five days before being elected by the legislature to fill a vacant United States Senate seat. The current governor is Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr., who previously served as governor from 1975 to 1983. He is the son of former governor Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr. who served from 1959-1967.

List of Governors of California

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_California

Governors of the State of California

• Peter Hardeman Burnett
• John McDougall
• John Bigler
• J. Neely Johnson
• John B. Weller
• Milton S. Latham
• John G. Downey
• Leland Stanford
• Frederick F. Low
• Henry H. Haight
• Newton Booth
• Romualdo Pacheco
• William Irwin
• George Clement Perkins
• George Stoneman, Jr.
• Washington Bartlett
• Robert Waterman
• Henry Markham
• James Budd
• Henry Gage
• George Pardee
• James Gillett
• Hiram Johnson
• William Stephens
• Friend Richardson
• Clement C. Young
• James Rolph, Jr.
• Frank Merriam
• Culbert Olson
• Earl Warren
• Goodwin Jess Knight
• Edmund Gerald Brown, Sr.
• Ronald W. Reagan
• George Deukmejian
• Pete Wilson
• Gray Davis
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr.
• Gavin Newsom