| 1. Jerry Brown does not smoke. |
| 2. Father Pat Brown served as California Governor. |
| 3. Jerry Brown was a cheerleader at St. Ignatius High School. |
| 4. He topped his class at the San Francisco College of Law. |
| 5. He opposed the Death Penalty and vetoed it as Governor. |
| 6. He appointed the first openly gay judge in the United States in 1979. |
| 7. He appointed the first openly lesbian judge in the United States in 1981. |
| 8. Jerry Brown worked with Mother Teresa in Kolkata, India. |
| 9. There was a 28-year gap between his 2nd and 3rd term as governor. |
| 10. Jerry Brown succeeded Arnold Schwarzenegger as California Governor in 2011. |
| 11. At age four, he became the youngest person to climb Yosemite's legendary Ledge Trail. |
| 12. He founded the Oakland School for the Arts and the Oakland Military Institute. |
| 13. He entered Sacred Heart Novitiate, a Jesuit seminary, after high school. |
| 14. He topped his class at Yale Law School. |
| 15. He was both the oldest and sixth-youngest governor of California due to the 28-year gap. |
| 16. From the mid-1990s, he lived in a warehouse building in Oakland. |
| 17. He operated the political organization We the People, which sponsored programs in education and sustainable food production. |
| 18. He hosted a daily radio program from his Oakland warehouse. |
| 19. He lived in an inexpensive apartment rather than the governor's mansion during his first governorship. |
| 20. He currently serves as chair of the California-China Climate Institute at UC Berkeley. |
| 21. He is executive chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. |
| 22. He serves on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. |
