Ted Brown is a California Libertarian

Libertarian Party (United States)

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 politician and speaker. Brown has been nicknamed "the perennial candidate

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" by local media, because of his constant runs for office in every election cycle for nearly thirty years. In 2008 he is again a candidate for California's 26th congressional district

California's 26th congressional district

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. Between 1980 and 2008 he has run for the United States House of Representatives

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 seven times, California State Assembly

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 three times, Insurance Commissioner

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 twice, and United States Senate

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 & California State Senate

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 once each.

Active with his political party, Brown has served as California State Chairman, Los Angeles County Chairman and a member of the Libertarian National Committee

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. He currently serves as a member of State Executive Committee, platform committee chairman, and candidate recruitment chairman. He frequently writes Libertarian position statements on ballot initiatives, and is a regular speaker on behalf of the Libertarian Party throughout Southern California.

Brown was born in 1960 in Steubenville, Ohio

Steubenville, Ohio

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, the grandson of German, Greek and Jewish immigrants. The family relocated to Wheeling, West Virginia

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 in 1970, where he worked in his family business. He graduated from Linsly Military Institute in 1978 before attending Wesleyan University

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 in Connecticut

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 for one year. He graduated from UCLA in 1984, with a B. A. in political science with a concentration in Constitutional Law.

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