Kathleen Lynn Brown is a Democratic

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 politician from California

California

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. She is the youngest of four children of former Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown

Pat Brown

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 and is the sister of current California Governor

Governor of California

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 Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown

Jerry Brown

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, Jr

Brown is an attorney and was first elected to the Los Angeles City Board of Education in 1975, and reelected in 1979. She was elected California State Treasurer

California State Treasurer

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 in 1990.

Brown unsuccessfully tried to be the third member of the Brown family to serve as governor (her brother, the current governor, previously held that office from 1975 to 1983), but was defeated by incumbent

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 Republican Governor Pete Wilson

Pete Wilson

Peter Barton "Pete" Wilson is an American politician from California. Wilson, a Republican, served as the 36th Governor of California , the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator , eleven years as Mayor of San Diego and...

 (who had previously defeated Jerry Brown for one of California's US Senate

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 seats in 1982) in the 1994 gubernatorial election

California gubernatorial election, 1994

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.

She currently serves as Senior Advisor for Goldman Sachs

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 heading the Western Region of the Public Sector and Infrastructure Group.

Brown is a graduate of Stanford University

Stanford University

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 and Fordham University School of Law

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. She is married to Van Gordon Sauter, at one time President of CBS News

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, and they have five grown children.