Editing Jerry Brown (section)

==Early life, education, and private career==
Brown was born in [[San Francisco]], California, the only son of four children born to [[San Francisco District Attorney's Office|district attorney of San Francisco]] and later governor of California, [[Pat Brown|Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown]] Sr., and his wife, [[Bernice Layne Brown|Bernice Layne]].<ref name=Arnold>{{cite book |title=California after Arnold | last1=Cummings| first1=Stephen D.|last2= Reddy|first2= Patrick B.| publisher=Algora Publishing |date=September 14, 2009| page=179| isbn=978-0-87586-739-7 }}</ref> Brown's father was of half Irish and half German descent.<ref>{{harvnb|Rarick|2006|pp=8, 30}}</ref> His great-grandfather August Schuckman, a German immigrant, settled in California in 1852 during the [[California Gold Rush]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=The people's will|url=http://www.economist.com/node/18563638|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=December 28, 2015|issn=0013-0613}}</ref>

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"My great-grandfather left Germany, he left Hamburg in 1849 on a ship called ''Perseverance''." —Jerry Brown<ref>
[https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/06/jerry-brown-politico-magazine-interview-223757/  Jerry Brown’s Midnight in America]
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Brown was a member of the [[California Cadet Corps]] at [[St. Ignatius College Preparatory|St. Ignatius High School]], where he graduated in 1955.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cadets attend Governor's Inauguration {{!}} Riverside Preparatory School|url=http://www.riversideprep.net/cadet-corps/cadets-attend-governors-inauguration/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104201801/http://www.riversideprep.net/cadet-corps/cadets-attend-governors-inauguration/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 4, 2016 |website=www.riversideprep.net|access-date=December 28, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jerry Brown: Latin Scholar and One-Time Almost Priest |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/jerry-brown-latin-scholar-and-one-time-almost-priest/282426/|website=The Atlantic|date=17 December 2013|access-date=December 28, 2015|language=en-US}}</ref> In 1955, Brown entered [[Santa Clara University]] for a year and left to attend [[Testarossa Winery#Sacred Heart Novitiate|Sacred Heart Novitiate]], a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] novice house in [[Los Gatos, California|Los Gatos]], intent on becoming a [[Roman Catholicism in the United States|Catholic]] [[priest]].<ref name="About the Governor"/><ref name="pack1978">{{cite book |title=Jerry Brown, the philosopher-prince |publisher=Stein and Day |author=Pack, Robert |year=1978 |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."</ref> Brown resided at the novitiate from August 1956 to January 1960 before enrolling at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in classics in 1961.<ref name="About the Governor">{{cite web |url=http://gov.ca.gov/m_about.php |title=Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. - About |publisher=Gov.ca.gov |access-date=August 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703153459/http://gov.ca.gov/m_about.php |archive-date=July 3, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Schell 57">{{harvnb|Schell|1978|p=57}}</ref> With his tuition paid for by the [[Louis Lurie]] Foundation,<ref>{{harvnb|Schell|1978|pp=60–61}}</ref> including a $675 scholarship in 1963,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19700722.2.17|title=Probe Shows Politicians' Kids Received Scholarships|work=The Desert Sun|date=July 22, 1970|agency=United Press International|page=3}}</ref> Brown went on to [[Yale Law School]] and graduated with a [[Bachelor of Laws]] in 1964.<ref name="Arnold"/> After law school, Brown worked as a [[law clerk]] for [[Supreme Court of California|California Supreme Court]] justice [[Mathew Tobriner]].

Returning to California, Brown took the state [[bar (law)|bar]] exam and passed on his second attempt.<ref name=LATimesBar>{{cite news |title=A High Bar for Lawyers |first=Maura |last=Dolan |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |page=3 |date=February 21, 2006 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-21-me-bar21-story.html |access-date=March 11, 2010}}</ref> He 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 college]]s in the city; he placed first in a field of 124 and served until 1971.<ref name="AG Bio"/>