The Edmund G. Brown, Jr. papers comprise the papers of Jerry Brown during his tenure as California Secretary of State (1971-1975) and his first two terms as the Governor of California (1975-1983). Over the course of his career, Jerry Brown has served as the California Secretary of State (1971-1975), the 34th Governor of California (1975-1983), the Mayor of Oakland (1999-2007), the Attorney General of California (2007-2011), and the 39th Governor of California (2011-2019).
As of 2020, the Edmund G. Brown, Jr. papers are still largely unprocessed due to past restrictions governing access to the collection. An early inventory of the Edmund G. Brown, Jr. papers divided the collection into five series:
Additional material was donated in 2023 and is largely unprocessed.
See the Finding aid for the collection (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/216.)