Jess
Subtitle: The Political Career of Jesse Marvin Unruh
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: May 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780761830672
Subjects: Legislators; Political; General; Biography / Autobiography; Politics and government; Biography & Autobiography; Nonfiction - General; Biography/Autobiography; Non-Classifiable; Government - General; Political Science / General; Politicians; 1951-; Biography; California
Description: "Jesse Marvin Unruh acquired a national political reputation despite the fact that he never gained office above the California governmental level. He spent sixteen years (1955-1970) in the state legislature, seven of them as assembly speaker. While there he secured passage of moderate-liberal legislation and upgraded the quality of the state legislature to the number one position in the nation. Unruh curbed the power of special interest lobbies and induced them to support his legislative program. He also kept the state Democratic Party in a moderate political position as the Republicans moved ever further to the right. Although Governors Pat Brown and Ronald Reagan frustrated his desire to attain the Governorship, Unruh was elected State Treasurer in 1974."--BOOK JACKET.