Editing Jerry Brown (section)

===1976 presidential election===
{{Main|1976 Democratic Party presidential primaries}}
[[File:JerryBrown.png|thumb|left|Brown at the [[1976 Democratic National Convention]] in [[New York City]]]]
[[File:Democratic Convention in New York City, July 14, 1976. Cesar Chavez at podium, nominating Gov. Brown (cropped1).jpg|right|thumb|[[Cesar Chavez]] nominating Brown at the 1976 Democratic National Convention]]
Brown began his first campaign for the Democratic nomination for president on March 16, 1976,<ref>{{harvnb|Schell|1978|p=3}}</ref> late in the primary season and over a year after some candidates had started campaigning. Brown declared: "The country is rich, but not so rich as we have been led to believe. The choice to do one thing may preclude another. In short, we are entering an era of limits."<ref name="CA rides the wave">{{cite news|last=Nolte|first=Carl|title=California rides the wave |url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/California-Rides-the-Wave-Booming-growth-2928139.php|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=November 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021128134856/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fchronicle%2Farchive%2F1999%2F05%2F30%2FSC48827.DTL|archive-date=November 28, 2002|url-status=live|date=May 30, 1999|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="NY Times 3-30-1992">{{cite news|last=Schmalz|first=Jeffrey|title=THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate's Record; Brown Firm on What He Believes, But What He Believes Often Shifts|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/30/us/1992-campaign-candidate-s-record-brown-firm-what-he-believes-but-what-he.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 28, 2010|date=March 30, 1992}}</ref>

Brown's name began appearing on primary ballots in May and he won in [[Maryland]], [[Nevada]], and his home state of California.<ref>View archival news footage of Brown's campaign speech in [[Union Square, San Francisco]] on May 25, 1976: {{cite web|url=http://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/189401 |title=Jerry Brown Presidential Campaign in Union Square - Bay Area Television Archive |access-date=2016-11-08 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306125430/https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/189401 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |df=mdy }}.</ref> He missed the deadline in [[Oregon]], but he ran as a write-in candidate and finished in third behind Former Georgia Governor [[Jimmy Carter]] and Senator [[Frank Church]] of [[Idaho]]. Brown is often credited with winning the [[New Jersey]] and [[Rhode Island]] primaries, but in reality, uncommitted slates of delegates that Brown advocated in those states finished first. With support from [[Louisiana]] governor [[Edwin Edwards]], Brown won a majority of delegates at the Louisiana delegate selection convention; thus, Louisiana was the only southern state to not support Southerners Carter or Alabama governor [[George Wallace]]. Despite this success, he was unable to stall Carter's momentum, and his rival was nominated on the first ballot at the [[1976 Democratic National Convention]]. Brown finished third with roughly 300 delegate votes, narrowly behind Congressman [[Morris Udall]] and Carter.