700 days from today, Jerry Brown will become the longest-serving Governor in California history. On that day, October 7, 2013, Brown will surpass the record set by Governor Earl Warren in 1953. On October 5th of that year, Warren resigned as Governor to accept an appointment as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (a […]
The Missing Lieutenant Governor
As anyone who visits Wikipedia can tell you, Gavin Newsom is the 49th Lieutenant Governor of California. What few people know is that the count of Lt. Governors is off by one, and that Newsom is actually Lt. Governor #50. As we reviewed in a recent article, there have been five different ways to assume […]
California’s Legislature, 2011 ed.
Thursday marked the release of the 2011 edition of California’s Legislature by the Assembly Chief Clerk’s Office. The book, updated and released periodically since the 1940s, was most recently updated in 2006. Among the features in the new edition; The party composition of the Legislature for each session since 1849. An expanded glossary of legislative […]
