High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKEdmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American politician. He served as the 34th Governor of the State of California and is the current Attorney General. He is a candidate for Governor of California in the November 2010 election. Brown has had a lengthy political career spanning terms on the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees (1969 1971), as California Secretary of State (1971 1975), as Governor of California (1975 1983), as chair of the California Democratic Party (1989 1991), the Mayor of Oakland (1998 2006), and the Attorney General of California (2007 present). He unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nominations for president in 1976, 1980, and 1992, and was an unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in 1982.