Governor of California

I (Governor) do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California, that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter.Governors take office on the first Monday after January 1 after their election. === Gubernatorial removal === Two methods exist to remove a governor. ====Impeachment and removal by the legislature==== The governor can be impeached for "misconduct in office" by a majority vote of the State Assembly and removed by a two-thirds supermajority vote of the State Senate. ====Recall by the voters==== Petitions signed by California state voters equal to 12% of the last vote for the office of governor (with signatures from each of five counties equal to 1% of the last vote for governor in the county) can launch a gubernatorial recall election. The voters can then vote on whether or not to recall the incumbent governor, and on the same ballot can vote for a potential replacement. If a majority of the voters in the election vote to recall the governor, then the person who gains a plurality of the votes in the replacement race will become governor. Only two governor recall attempts have ever gained enough signatures to make the ballot in California. The [2003 recall election](2003-california-gubernatorial-recall-election) began with a petition drive that forced Democratic governor Gray Davis into a recall election, which he lost. He was replaced by Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was the first time that a California governor was voted out of office by Recall. In addition to the successful 2003 recall, current governor Gavin Newsom faced a [recall election in 2021](2021-california-gubernatorial-recall-election), which he defeated. == Relationship with the lieutenant governor == The lieutenant governor of California is separately elected during the same election, not jointly as the running mate of the gubernatorial candidate. As such, California had governors and lieutenant governors of different parties for nearly 27 of the 33 years between 1978 and 2011, whereas previously, this had only occurred in 1875, 1887, 1895 and 1916–1917 due to the resignation or death of an incumbent governor or lieutenant governor. This occasionally becomes significant, since the California Constitution provides that all the powers of the governor fall to the lieutenant governor whenever the governor is not in the state of California, with the lieutenant governor sometimes signing or vetoing legislation or making political appointments whenever the governor leaves the state. In practice, there is a gentlemen's agreement for the lieutenant governor not to perform more than perfunctory duties while the governor is away from the state: this agreement was violated when Mike Curb was in office, as he signed several executive orders at odds with the Brown administration when Brown was out of the state. Court rulings have upheld the lieutenant governor's right to perform the duties and assume all of the prerogatives of governor while the governor is out of the state. The lieutenant governor is also the president of the California State Senate. == Official residence and workplace == The official residence of the California governor is the California Governor's Mansion, in Sacramento. The mansion has served as the residence of 14 governors, while others have declined to reside in the mansion, preferring to arrange for private residential arrangements. It is also one of the official workplaces for the governor. The governor's primary official workplace is located within the California State Capitol in Sacramento. The Stanford Mansion, in Sacramento, serves as one of the official workplaces for the governor, as well as the official reception center for the California government. ==Timeline== {| role="presentation" class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" | Timeline of California governors |- | {{#tag:timeline| ImageSize = width:1500 height:auto barincrement:18 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:20 right:130 left:10 AlignBars = late DateFormat = x.y Period = from:1848.90 till: TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:1850 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:1 start:1849 Define $now = Colors = id:5year value:rgb(0.8, 0.8, 0.8) id:0year value:rgb(0.6, 0.6, 0.6) id:noparty value:rgb(0.7, 0.7, 0.7) id:dem value:rgb(0.2, 0.2, 1) id:american value:rgb(0.85, 0.62, 0.91) id:lecompton value:rgb(0.67, 0.8, 1) id:rep value:rgb(0.91, 0.11, 0.14) id:union value:rgb(0.7, 0.13, 0.13) id:progressive value:rgb(0.37, 0.82, 0.44) id:seat1 value:rgb(0.60, 0.10, 0.10) id:blank value:white BarData = barset:GovernorLine barset:Governors #barset:blankline PlotData= width:1 align:right fontsize:S shift:(-3,-4) anchor:from fontsize:8 color:black barset:GovernorLine from:1864 till:end text:Governors width:6 align:left fontsize:S shift:(5,-4) anchor:till fontsize:10 barset:Governors from:1849.97 till:1851.02 color:noparty text:"Peter Hardeman Burnett" from:1851.02 till:1852.02 color:noparty text:"John McDougal" from:1852.02 till:1856.02 color:dem text:"John Bigler" from:1856.02 till:1858.02 color:american text:"J. Neely Johnson" from:1858.02 till:1860.02 color:dem text:"John B. Weller" from:1860.02 till:1860.04 color:lecompton text:"Milton Latham" from:1860.04 till:1862.03 color:lecompton text:"John G. Downey" from:1862.03 till:1863.94 color:rep text:"Leland Stanford" from:1863.94 till:1867.93 color:union text:"Frederick Low" from:1867.93 till:1871.94 color:dem text:"Henry Huntly Haight" from:1871.94 till:1875.16 color:rep text:"Newton Booth" from:1875.16 till:1875.94 color:rep text:"Romualdo Pacheco" from:1875.94 till:1880.02 color:dem text:"William Irwin" from:1880.02 till:1883.03 color:rep text:"George C. Perkins" from:1883.03 till:1887.02 color:dem text:"George Stoneman" from:1887.02 till:1887.7 color:dem text:"Washington Bartlett" from:1887.7 till:1891.02 color:rep text:"Robert Waterman" from:1891.02 till:1895.03 color:rep text:"Henry Markham" from:1895.03 till:1899.01 color:dem text:"James Budd" from:1899.01 till:1903.02 color:rep text:"Henry T. Gage" from:1903.02 till:1907.02 color:rep text:"George Pardee" from:1907.02 till:1911.01 color:rep text:"James Gillett" from:1911.01 till:1912 color:rep from:1912 till:1917.2 color:progressive text:"Hiram Johnson" from:1917.02 till:1923.02 color:rep text:"William Stephens" from:1923.02 till:1927.01 color:rep text:"Friend Richardson" from:1927.01 till:1931.02 color:rep text:"C. C. Young" from:1931.02 till:1934.42 color:rep text:"James Rolph" from:1934.42 till:1939.01 color:rep text:"Frank Merriam" from:1939.01 till:1943.01 color:dem text:"Culbert Olson" from:1943.01 till:1953.76 color:rep text:"Earl Warren" from:1953.76 till:1959.01 color:rep text:"Goodwin Knight" from:1959.01 till:1967.01 color:dem text:"Pat Brown" from:1967.01 till:1975.01 color:rep text:"Ronald Reagan" from:2011.01 till:2019.01 color:dem text:"Jerry Brown" from:1983.01 till:1991.02 color:rep text:"George Deukmejian" from:1991.02 till:1999.01 color:rep text:"Pete Wilson" from:1999.01 till:2003.11 color:dem text:"Gray Davis" from:2003.11 till:2011.01 color:rep text:"Arnold Schwarzenegger" from:2019.01 till:$now color:dem text:"Gavin Newsom" LineData= from:1911.01 till:1912 atpos:315 color:rep width:6 # HJ rep from:1975.04 till:1983.04 atpos:122 color:dem width:6 # CHU 1st term layer:back # This section creates the vertical lines. at:1850.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1855.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1860.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1865.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1870.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1875.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1880.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1885.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1890.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1895.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1900.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1905.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1910.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1915.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1920.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1925.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1930.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1935.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1940.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1945.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1950.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1955.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1960.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1965.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1970.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1975.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1980.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1985.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1990.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1995.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:2000.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:2005.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:2010.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:2015.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:2020.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:2025.00 width:0.1 color:5year }} |} == See also == * List of governors of California * List of governors of California before 1850 * List of governors of California by education * Politics of California * Politics of California before 1900 * First ladies and partners of California * List of burial places of governors of California == References == == External links == * [[Category:Governor of California|*]] [[Category:1849 establishments in California]]