Browns on the Ballot

If Jerry Brown runs for reelection in 2014, a member of the Brown family will have been on the California statewide ballot in 15 of the 18 midterm elections since 1946:

1. 1946: Pat Brown, attorney general (lost)
2. 1950: Pat Brown, attorney general (won)
3. 1954: Pat Brown, attorney general (won)
4. 1958: Pat Brown, governor (won)
5. 1962: Pat Brown, governor (won)
6. 1966: Pat Brown, governor (lost)
7. 1970: Jerry Brown, secretary of state (won)
8. 1974: Jerry Brown, governor (won)
9. 1978: Jerry Brown, governor (won)
10. 1982: Jerry Brown, US senator (lost)
11. 1986:
12. 1990: Kathleen Brown, treasurer (won)
13. 1994: Kathleen Brown, governor (lost)
14. 1998:
15. 2002:
16. 2006: Jerry Brown, attorney general (won)
17. 2010: Jerry Brown, governor (won)
18. 2014: Jerry Brown, governor