The speaker of the California State Assembly is the presiding officer and highest-ranking member of the California State Assembly, controlling the flow of legislation and committee assignments. The sp
Robert Rivas official speaker portrait
John Bigler painting
Isaac B. Wall, 1850s
Charles S. Fiarfax, 1850 60s
Willie Brown (politician)
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Willie Lewis Brown Jr. is an American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004, the first African American to hold the office.
Speaker of the California State Assembly
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Brown in 2019
Brown's official State Assembly portrait, 1967
Signatures from a resolution signed by Brown in his role of Speaker of the California State Assembly
Mayor Brown signing legislation in 2002, flanked by Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, and Gordon England