Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr. (April 21, 1905 February 16, 1996) was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967. He is the father of former California governor Jerry Brown. Brown was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Edmund and Ida Schuckman Brown. He was one of four children. His father was an Irish Catholic, his mother a German Protestant. He acquired the nickname "Pat" during his school years and the nickname was a reference to his Patrick Henry-like oratory; When he was 12, while selling Liberty Bonds on street corners, he would end his spiel with, "Give me liberty, or give me death."