- 1946: Pat Brown, attorney general (lost)
- 1950: Pat Brown, attorney general (won)
- 1954: Pat Brown, attorney general (won)
- 1958: Pat Brown, governor (won)
- 1962: Pat Brown, governor (won)
- 1966: Pat Brown, governor (lost)
- 1970: Jerry Brown, secretary of state (won)
- 1974: Jerry Brown, governor (won)
- 1978: Jerry Brown, governor (won)
- 1982: Jerry Brown, US senator (lost)
- 1986:
- 1990: Kathleen Brown, treasurer (won)
- 1994: Kathleen Brown, governor (lost)
- 1998:
- 2002:
- 2006: Jerry Brown, attorney general (won)
- 2010: Jerry Brown, governor
This blog continues the discussion we began with Epic Journey: The 2008 Elections and American Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009).The next book in this series is The Comeback: the 2024 Elections and American Politics (Bloomsbury, 2025).
Saturday, May 15, 2010
CA: Browns on the Ballot
A member of the Brown family has been on the California statewide ballot in 14 of the 17 midterm elections since 1946: