Biography

Gavin Newsom

Jump to

Gavin Newsom is the son of an appellate court judge and came from an old, privileged San Francisco family. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1989, and with a loan from the wealthy Getty family, he started the PlumpJack Wine Shop in 1992. The business eventually grew to a multi-million dollar empire with over 700 employees, including restaurants, theaters, a wine label, and a hotel/ski resort. He served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1996 to 2004, where he became well-known for his "Care Not Cash" initiative, which reformed the city's homeless policy by slashing cash benefits to the homeless. Newsom was elected the 42nd mayor of San Francisco in 2004, the youngest mayor of that city in over a century. In February 2004, he made national headlines when he allowed same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Governor of California, 2019-present.
Lieutenant Governor of California (2011-19).
Became engaged to actress/producer/humanitarian Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
Said in a 2014 interview with the San Francisco Examiner that the impetus to marry same-sex couples in San Francisco was the 2004 State of the Union address (to which he was invited) in which President George W. Bush advocated a ban to such marriages through a constitutional amendment.
He is of Irish, English, and Scottish descent. He is a second cousin, once removed, of Joanna Newsom, through Gavin's great-grandparents.

There is some belief that [US President Barack Obama] actually doesn't believe in same-sex marriage. But it's fundamentally inexcusable for a member of the Democratic Party to stand on the principle that separate is now equal, but only on the basis of sexual orientation. We've always fought for the rights of minorities and against the whims of majorities.
I want President [Barack Obama] to succeed. But, I am very upset by what he's not done in terms of rights of gays and lesbians. I understand it tactically in a campaign, but at this point, I don't know.
[after the shootings in Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park] This Second Amendment's becoming a suicide pact, it feels like. California's 37% lower gun death rate of the rest of the nation, and yet, with all that evidence, no one on the other side seems to give a d--n
By the way, not one person ever in my office has ever used the word Latinx.
I'm not trying to impress you, I'm just trying to impress upon you, 'I'm like you. I'm not better than you.' I'm a 960 SAT guy. And I'm not trying to offend anyone. I'm not trying to act all there if you got 940...[speaking to Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens.]

Suggest an edit or add missing content