George Brown

Congressional Pictorial Directory, 106th.

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-04-1958	Democratic	AD-45	27268	Win
11-08-1960	Democratic	AD-45	32391	Win
11-06-1962	Democratic	CD-29	73740	Win
11-03-1964	Democratic	CD-29	90208	Win
11-08-1966	Democratic	CD-29	69115	Win
11-05-1968	Democratic	CD-29	76091	Win
11-07-1972	Democratic	CD-38	77922	Win
11-05-1974	Democratic	CD-36	69766	Win
11-02-1976	Democratic	CD-36	90830	Win
11-07-1978	Democratic	CD-36	80448	Win
11-04-1980	Democratic	CD-36	88634	Win
11-02-1982	Democratic	CD-36	76546	Win
11-06-1984	Democratic	CD-36	104438	Win
11-04-1986	Democratic	CD-36	78118	Win
11-08-1988	Democratic	CD-36	103493	Win
11-06-1990	Democratic	CD-36	72409	Win
11-03-1992	Democratic	CD-42	79780	Win
11-08-1994	Democratic	CD-42	58888	Win
11-05-1996	Democratic	CD-42	52166	Win
11-03-1998	Democratic	CD-42	62207	Win

Candidate Biography:

George Edward Brown Jr.
Born: March 6, 1920 in Holtville, CA
Married: Marta Macias Brown
Children: David and Dale Brown; Samuel, Armando and Miguel McQueen and Howard Cincotta
Military Service: ARMY (WWII)
Died: July 15, 1999 in Bethesda, Maryland

1954-1958: Member, Monterey Park City Council
1970: Primary Candidate for US Senate (Lost)

• LEGISLATION: Author of the George Brown Act (1961), which was "one of the nation's first comprehensive public employee labor relations laws... requiring the public employer to meet and confer with representatives of employee organizations upon request..." (Source: Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector)
• LEGISLATION: Coauthor of the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (1968), which allows all public employees (including municipal employees) to unionize in California.
• PLACENAME: Highway 210 in San Bernardino was officially dedicated as the George E. Brown Memorial Freeway in 2007. His widow, Marta Macias Brown, was the first person to drive the freeway. 
• PLACENAME: In 2000, the U.S. Salinity Laboratory in Riverside was renamed the "George E. Brown, Jr., Salinity Laboratory"
• Be Fruitful and Multiply: Brown had six children.

Source: California Blue Book (1961)
Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present" (U.S. Library of Congress) [http://bioguide.congress.gov/]
Source: Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector: The Experience of Eight States (2001) by Joyce M. Najita, James L. Stern