Gray Davis - Governor of California
	GRAY DAVIS was born in the Bronx, New York. He moved to California at age eleven and attended public, private, and parochial schools. A cum laude 1964 graduate of Stanford University with a Columbia Law School degree, he served as a U.S. Army captain in Vietnam and was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service. He served as chief of staff to Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. from 1975 to 1981. He also chaired the California Council on Criminal Justice from 1975 to 1976, where he began a statewide neighborhood watch program. Davis went on to serve two terms in the state assembly from Los Angeles county, from 1982 to 1986. While in the assembly in 1985, he founded the California Foundation for the Protection of Children. He served as state controller from 1987 to 1995, and saved taxpayers more than $500 million by cracking down on Medi-Cal fraud, rooting out government waste and inefficiency, and exposing the misuse of public funds.
As controller, he found and returned more than $1.8 billion in unclaimed property to citizens. In 1992 he withheld paychecks for all state elected officials, including himself, until state government passed a long-overdue budget. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1994. As lieutenant governor, he worked to keep jobs in California and encourage new and fast-growing industries to locate and expand in the state. He also led the fight to keep higher education affordable for middle-class families by reducing tuition costs by 5 percent at the University of California and California State University systems.
Davis, Gray	candidate for Governor of California.