Newsom, Gavin Christopher
Newsom, Gavin Christopher,
1967– American businessman and politician, b. San Francisco. He was a cofounder (1991) of the PlumpJack Group, whose businesses grew from a wine store to include wineries, restaurants, hotels, and other establishments, before he entered politics. A liberal Democrat, he served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1997–2004), as mayor of San Francisco (2004–2011), and as lieutenant governor of California (2011–2019) under Jerry BrownBrown, Jerry(Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr.), 1938–, American political leader, b. San Francisco. The son of Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown (1905–96), governor of California (1959–67), Brown abandoned early ideas of entering the priesthood and obtained a law degree
..... Click the link for more information. before he was elected governor of California in 2018. He is the author of Citizenville (2013), about citizen involvement in democracy in the digital age.