Edmund G. Brown Sr., California’s governor from 1959 to 1967, called himself a “big government man.” He built aqueducts, universities and freeways.

I first met Edmund G. ”Pat” Brown, Sr. in 1950 when he was running for attorney general and working the Topaz Room in Santa Rosa for votes.

Edmund G. Brown, governor of California, is an extraordinary politician. You know that he is a politician the instant he shakes your hand, and asks where you come from and how you spell your name.

Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, 90,the Democratic governor who led California through an era bullish on growth, beat Richard Nixon and lost to Ronald Reagan, died of a heart attack Friday night.

California Gov. Edmund G. Brown attends a dedication to mark an expansion project at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. in Salinas on Sept. 14, 1964. Leonard K. Firestone stated that after the ...