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Bookmark or Share- How Jerry Brown Became ‘Governor Moonbeam’ - The New York TimesFor the uninitiated, ‘Governor Moonbeam’ became Mr. Brown’s intractable sobriquet, dating back to his days as governor between 1975 and 1983, when his state led the nation in pretty much...
- Jerry Brown - WikipediaIn 1979, an out-of-state columnist, Mike Royko, at the Chicago Sun-Times, picked up on the nickname from Brown's girlfriend at the time, Linda Ronstadt, who was quoted in a 1978 Rolling Stone magazine interview humorously calling him "Moonbeam".
- Jerry Brown | Biography & Facts | BritannicaJerry Brown, American Democratic politician who served as governor of California (1975–83; 2011–19), mayor of Oakland, California (1999–2007), and California’s attorney general (2007–11). He also staged three unsuccessful bids for the U.S. presidency.
- California’s Jerry Brown caps 5 decades on political sceneJerry Brown became governor at 36, built a reputation as an idealist and was condescendingly nicknamed "Gov. Moonbeam." Now 80, he's still an idealist but a more moderate one who helped the...
- Opinion: History lesson: Why Jerry Brown is called ‘Moonbeam’In 1976, a Chicago newspaper columnist wrote that Jerry Brown would get ‘the moonbeam vote.’. The writer was Mike Royko, who then started referring to the then-38-year-old Brown as ‘Gov....
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