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	Jesse M. Unruh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1959, he authored the Unruh Civil Rights Act, a far-reaching law that outlawed discrimination in the areas of housing and employment, and was a template for later reforms that were enacted nationally in the 1960's and 1970's.
		As an early supporter of the Presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Unruh emerged as a pivotal figure in the run-up to the Democratic Convention.
		After an unsuccessful effort, led by Unruh and Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, to draft Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, he endorsed Eugene McCarthy at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jesse_M._Unruh (488 words)

	Jesse M. Unruh -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jesse Marvin Unruh (1922 - 1987) -- also known as "Big Daddy" Unruh -- was a (additional info and facts about Democratic) Democratic politician.
		He was born in (A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to 100,000 dynes) Newton, (A state in midwestern United States) Kansas on September 30, 1922.
		Unruh died in office of (Cancer of the prostate gland) prostate cancer on August 4, 1987.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jesse_m._unruh.htm (288 words)

	The Claremont Courier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Unruh, an oversized man as it were, as a tyrant and legislative dictator.
		Unruh carried the banner of his party into the struggle for governor.
		Unruh was constantly fending off attacks for his audacity in making certain the legislators reached agreement--behind locked doors, of course.
	www.claremont-courier.com /080702/myside080702.html (532 words)

	Jesse M. Unruh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jesse M. Unruh rose from an impoverished childhood to become one of the most powerful people in the history of California politics in a political career spanning four decades, during which he served as Speaker of the California State Assembly and later as Treasurer of California.
		After serving in the Navy and the Army during World War II, Jesse Unruh headed for Los Angeles and enrolled in the University of Southern California, from which he graduated in 1948 with a B.A. in Political Science and Journalism.
		As Speaker, Unruh led the transformation of the State Legislature from a part-time body to one that was a equal in power to the Governor.
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~unruhins/bio.html (340 words)

	Book Review
		The governor is mainly cast as a combination of incompetence and crookedness while the speaker is invariably wise, witty, and statesmanlike.
		Since the book was written as a tribute to Jesse Unruh, Mills tells us in his epilogue that he hoped the former speaker would read and appreciate it.
		Unruh died, however, as the book was going to press, and it became an unintended threnody for a dead political chieftain.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/88fall/br-disorderly.htm (588 words)

	Introduction
		Unruh promptly retaliated, and over the next several years the Assembly understood that the very junior Brown and the very powerful Unruh were at war.
		Jesse Unruh was not part of old California, anymore than Willie Brown was.
		Unruh was not born into poverty in 1922, but watched his family descend into it, as his father lost his job as a bank clerk, then tried sharecropping, managing to eke out only the barest of livings through much of the 1930s.
	faculty.washington.edu /gregoryj/diaspora/introduction.htm (4322 words)

	The Flagler College Gargoyle:Students join debate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Students from across the state joined Jesse Unruh and Elizabeth Victor as they brought their work from Dr. Ellen Klein's classes on epistemology and Muslim philosophy, respectively, into the contemporary debate March 5 and 6.
		Unruh's epistemology paper, "Pascal's Misplaced Bet," is a response to skepticism about Pascal's Wager.
		After presenting at the conference, Unruh and Victor were invited to read their work at yet another conference, the Second Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, on April 9 and 10.
	www.flagler.edu /gargoyle/April-6-2004/oncampus/debate.html (239 words)

	LSS Newsletter Extension of Remarks
		Indeed, at the time Jesse Unruh entered the Assembly in 1955, two former Speakers were under indictment for bribery (Buchanan 1963, 55-6).
		There is little on the record to suggest that the Assembly Unruh took over was a particularly healthy institution.
		Unruh retreated to a bar at the El Mirador Hotel and got even more drunk.
	www.apsanet.org /~lss/Newsletter/jan98/squire.html (1600 words)

	Willie Brown: The Members' Speaker
		An often overlooked factor in the rebellion were the deaths of Jesse Unruh and Bob Moretti.
		Most important, Unruh and Moretti were among the few persons -- perhaps the only persons -- who could talk to Brown as a peer.
		Unruh, the most dominant political personality in California of his generation, died in the summer of 1987 after a battle with cancer.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1602/Richardson/Richardson.html (3030 words)

	Pension funds are providing a voice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Central Pension Fund has become an active voice on behalf of its participants in correcting corporate governance practices that enrich and entrench management at the expense of the best interests of plan participants.
		Unruh’s efforts spearheaded the establishment of an organization known as the Council of Institutional Investors or CII.
		Pension plan trustees, spurred on by the U.S. Department of Labor recognized that they had an obligation, on behalf of their participants, to assure that judgements being made in corporate boardrooms maximized the value of the corporation to all shareholders--large and small alike.
	www.cpfiuoe.org /pages/articles/05corpgovn.htm (258 words)

	Jesse Unruh
		One of the most powerful California politicians, for many years he was Speaker of the California State Assembly, the same position later held by Willie Brown with similar dexterity.
		Unruh ran for Governor in 1970 but lost to Ronald Reagan, and subsequently lost the 1973 election for Mayor of Los Angeles to Tom Bradley.
		In 1974 he became State Treasurer, serving three terms.
	www.nndb.com /people/870/000047729 (136 words)

	Ronald Reagan... Second Term
		My opponent was Speaker of the Assembly Jesse Unruh, the tax-and-spend liberal who from the beginning had opposed our reforms tooth and nail.
		We organized committees in all fifty-eight counties of the State to apply pressure on the legislature.
		One day the liberal Democrat who succeeded Jesse Unruh, Speaker of the Assembly Bob Moretti, came into my office holding his hands in the air as if I had a gun on him and said, "Stop those cards and letters!" "Sit down," I said.
	www.ronaldreagan.com /secondterm.html (1347 words)

	Treasurer Bennett Receives National Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The award, presented by the National Association of State Treasurers, is given for outstanding service to the association and recognizes the recipient for his service to his profession, state, and nation.
		The award is named for Jesse M. Unruh, one of the founding members of the Association, who served as California's Treasurer from 1975 to 1987.
		Bennett, given the award at the National Association of State Treasurers' convention in Charleston, South Carolina, said that he "was surprised and deeply honored" to be selected by his fellow state treasurers.
	www.treasury.state.ms.us /site/publications/pressrelease/pressrelease/063098-award.htm (315 words)

	Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As the first speaker in the Institute's Distinguished Lecture 2002, Boyarsky was both informative and entertaining, recalling his experiences as a young political reporter in Sacramento in the 50's and 60's.
		His run-ins with legendary Assembly Speaker then State Treasurer Jesse Unruh, provided a humorous, yet thought-provoking glimpse into the politics of the time and gave the audience a taste of his upcoming biography on Unruh entitled Big Daddy.
		In addition, Boyarsky's recollections of the friendship and the eventual animosity that grew between Unruh and former Governor Pat Brown brought nods of agreement from those who shared the experience with the veteran journalist and looks of surprise and even shock from those in the audience to young to remember.
	www.patbrowninstitute.org /calendar/item.php?id=1 (252 words)

	The razzle-dazzle ayatollah of the Capitol / Willie Brown played a confidence game of sorts
		And the willingness to do whatever was necessary to keep himself and his allies in power that made Willie Lewis Brown the most powerful Assembly speaker of the last half century.
		Brown learned the playbook of his predecessor, Jesse Unruh, and then bettered him, holding the speakership a record 15 years -- six longer than Unruh, the man credited with creating the modern state Legislature.
		Asked by former GOP Gov. George Deukmejian's chief of staff Steve Merksamer what made Willie tick, Unruh famously replied that it was a waste of time to try to figure him out.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/01/04/INGB3410FL1.DTL&type=printable (1177 words)

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		Speaker Unruh, nicknamed \ldblquote Big Daddy,\rdblquote raised gobs of campaign cash and ran his machine with a collegial group of legislative colleagues nicknamed \ldblquote Unruh\rquote s Praetorian Guard.\rdblquote \par But no Speaker before Brown so completely centralized the campaign apparatus or made it so completely the focus of one man\rquote s ambition.
		Most important, Unruh and Moretti were among the few persons -- perhaps the only persons -- who could talk to Brown as a p eer.
		\par Unruh, the most dominant political personality in California of his generation, died in the summer of 1987 after a battle with cancer.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1602/Richardson/Richardson.rtf (3104 words)

	Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Davie drops in at the State Capitol on Jesse Unruh, leader of the Democratic opposition.
		Jesse Unruh has long since left the halls of the Capitol and run a distant third in the race for mayor of Los Angeles.
		Nick Williams has left the Los Angeles Times to be near his grandchildren in Trinidad on the northern California coast, and besides, he would not have been likely to answer Davie's question because his principals and the Committee of 25 really run Los Angeles.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/73summer/california.htm (809 words)

	Accuracy In Media - Guest Columns - Reid Collins - America for Sale?
		Do it once, and it'll be yowling on your doorstep for the rest of your natural life.
		Jesse Unruh may have been right about money being the mother's milk of politics, but isn't it time that an adult electorate was weaned?
		The U.S. Supreme Court is foregoing some valued vacation time to hear arguments about how far campaign donation limits can be drawn within the bounds of the constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech.
	www.aim.org /publications/guest_columns/collins/2003/sep10.html (559 words)

	Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics: Past Events
		On April 21st, the Unruh Institute brought together a number of scholars and practitioners as part of a panel "Lives Well Spent: California Politics in the Unruh and Brown Years".
		Moderator, Bob Hertzberg was joined by Ethan Rarick, author of "California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown", journalist Bill Boyarsky, USC Senior Scholar and journalist Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, and political consultant Darry Sragow.
		Photo of Jesse Unruh and Pat Brown taken at a pre-convention meeting of the California Delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention from "California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown"
	www.usc.edu /schools/college/unruh/past_events (209 words)

	News&features - April 25, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Unruh, who ran the Assembly from 1961 to 1968 as speaker, epitomized the pre-term limits House--he was tough, gruff and the caretaker of the good ol’ boy network.
		In Jesse Unruh’s days, Goldberg’s outspokenness could have landed her a seat on a backbench somewhere in the Capitol, far from the corridors of power.
		Back then, a junior member had to wait for his or her turn and certainly not be as brash and seemingly all-knowing as Goldberg.
	www.newsreview.com /issues/sacto/2002-04-25/cover.asp (4453 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Writer Profile :: RONALD H. JANIS
		RONALD H. SINCE 1961 Jesse Unruh has been the speaker in the California Assembly.
		This year he lost that position when the Reagan's Republicans captured the Assembly and Unruh, a Democrat, had to be replaced.
		Now Unruh is running directly against Reagan for the Governorship of California.
	www.thecrimson.com /writer.aspx?ID=2326 (1023 words)

	Jesse M. Unruh Jesse M. Unruh Assembly Fellowship Program
		The California State Assembly Fellowship Program, founded in 1957, is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious legislative fellowship programs.
		This unique program provides an opportunity for individuals of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and experiences to directly participate in the legislative process.
		In 1987, the program was renamed the Jesse Marvin Unruh Assembly Fellowship Program to honor California’s former Assembly Speaker and State Treasurer.
	www.csus.edu /calst/assembly (579 words)

	Assemblywoman Gloria Negrete Mcleod Announces Availability Of State Fellowships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		College students or graduates with a strong interest in public policy and politics have until Feb. 25, 2005 to apply for a number of fellowship programs offered by the California Assembly, Senate and other branches of state government.
		Assemblymember Gloria Negrete McLeod (D-Chino) announced today that applications are now being accepted for four state government fellowship programs: the Jesse Marvin Unruh Assembly Fellowship, the California Senate Fellows, the Executive Fellowship and the Judicial Administration Fellowship.
		The Jesse Marvin Unruh Fellowship Program, founded in 1957 by the legendary former Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh and renamed in his honor in 1987, is the oldest of the four programs.
	democrats.assembly.ca.gov /members/a61/press/p612005001.htm (665 words)

	California State Archives-California State Government Oral Histories-Abstracts (W)
		She also discusses prominent California Democrats, particularly Jesse Unruh.
		The focus of the interview is his ten years of service in the assembly.
		He describes the style of Lincoln and Brown as speakers, as well as his relations with Jesse M. Unruh and the contest for the speakership in 1961.
	www.ss.ca.gov /archives/level3_ohguide4w.html (2824 words)

	Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics
		This summer, the Unruh Institute of Politics went through some exciting changes.
		We are pleased to announce that Professor Crigler, who has served as Director of the Institute, has been appointed Chair of the Department of Political Science.
		The mission of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics is to motivate students to become active in the world of politics and to encourage public officials to participate in the daily life of USC.
	www.usc.edu /dept/polsci/unruh (921 words)

	DB000501
		The first thing you notice after walking into the Assembly's biggest hearing room is a large portrait.
		It's a mid-'60s likeness of the late, legendary Speaker Jesse Unruh.
		Unruh never looked better nor has his wisdom been more sage.
	www.sen.ca.gov /ftp/SEN/GOP/DAILY_BRIEFINGS/DB000501.HTM (1213 words)

	Ex-Speaker Finally Gets Exit Party / Special desk for Brown set on Assembly floor
		It is next to the only other such desk -- one in honor of former Speaker Jesse Unruh, speaker from 1961 to 1969, a Los Angeles Democrat who established the full powers of the office.
		``To put me in the same category as Jesse Unruh, to put a permanent seat on the floor for me, is something I will never forget,'' Brown said.
		As Brown recalls the story, he was placed next to Britschgi by Unruh because he had defeated a candidate backed by Unruh.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/13/MN55183.DTL (477 words)

	Post BA Opportunities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		They are the Jesse Marvin Unruh Assembly Fellowship Program, the California Senate Associates Program, and the Executive Fellowship Program.
		These programs, sponsored jointly with the Center for California Studies, are excellent opportunities for students or others interested in state government to gain firsthand knowledge of the inner workings of all its branches.
		The Jesse Marvin Unruh Fellowship Program, founded in 1957 and renamed for former Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh in 1987, is the oldest and one of the most prestigious legislative fellowship programs in the nation.
	www.brandeis.edu /hiatt/postba.html (762 words)

	California State Archives-California State Government Oral Histories-Abstracts (M)
		He details serving in the assembly during the Democratic leadership of Jesse M. Unruh and the Republican governorship of Ronald Reagan.
		He also talks about the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee during the Richard M. Nixon impeachment hearings and various activities while in the state assembly and Congress.
		He talks about the leadership of Assembly Speakers Jesse Unruh, Luther Lincoln, and Ralph Brown, and the evolution to a full-time legislature.
	www.ss.ca.gov /archives/level3_ohguide4m.html (3613 words)

	Former Unruh aide appointed to serve on State Bar board
		Manning J. Post, a retired investor and longtime Democratic activist, was named to the State Bar Board of Governors last month by the Senate rules committee.
		His political experience goes back more than 30 years, to a time when he served as the “right-hand man” to the late Jesse Unruh, speaker of the Assembly.
		Post was California campaign treasurer for Unruh, as well as for John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and he did stints on seven statewide advisory commissions, including serving as chairman of the Little Hoover Commission.
	www.calbar.ca.gov /calbar/2cbj/00jan/page3-1.htm (290 words)

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