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\"36th California Governor\" Pete Wilson Hand Signed TLS Dated 1997:
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Up for sale the "36th California Governor" Pete Wilson Signed TLS Dated 1997. 

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Peter Barton Wilson (born

August 23, 1933) is an American attorney and politician. A Republican, he

served as a United States Senator and

the 36th Governor of

California. Born in Lake Forest, Illinois,

Wilson graduated from the UC Berkeley School of Law after

serving in the United States Marine Corps.

He established a legal practice in San Diego and campaigned for Republicans such as Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater. Wilson won election to the California State Assembly in

1966 and became the Mayor of San Diego in

1971. He held that office until 1983, when he became a member of the United

States Senate. In the Senate, Wilson supported the Strategic Defense

Initiative and the Civil Liberties Act of

1988, while he opposed the Omnibus

Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. He resigned from the Senate after

winning the 1990

California gubernatorial election. As governor, he signed a three-strikes law and supported energy deregulation and term limits. He

was also an advocate for California Proposition 187,

which established a state-run citizenship screening system with the intention

of using social services. He sought the

presidential nomination in the 1996

Republican primaries but quickly dropped out of the race. Wilson

retired from public office after serving two terms as governor. Since leaving

office, he has worked for several businesses and has been affiliated with

several other organizations. He is a distinguished visiting fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution. Wilson

also co-chaired Arnold Schwarzenegger's

successful 2003 gubernatorial campaign. Peter Barton Wilson was born on August

23, 1933, in Lake Forest, Illinois, a

suburb north of Chicago. His parents were James Boone

Wilson and Margaret (Callaghan) Wilson.[1] His father sold college fraternity

jewelry to work his way through University of Illinois, and later became a

successful advertising executive. The Wilson family settled in St. Louis, Missouri when Pete was in elementary school. He then

attended the private, non-sectarian preparatory middle school John Burroughs (grades

7–9) in Ladue, and then St. Louis Country Day

School, an exclusive private high school, where he won an award in

his senior year for combined scholarship, athletics, and citizenship. In the

fall of 1951, Pete Wilson enrolled at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut,

where he received a United States Navy Reserve

Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship, majored in English, and earned

his Bachelor of Arts degree.

In his junior year he elected to join the Marine Corps upon his graduation. After

graduating from Yale, Wilson served for three years in the United States Marine Corps as

an infantry officer, eventually becoming a platoon leader. Upon completion of

his Marine Corps service, Wilson earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley

School of Law in June, 1962. In 1962, while working as an

Advance Man for the Republican gubernatorial candidate Richard M. Nixon, Wilson got to know Herb Klein, one of Nixon's

top aides. Klein suggested that Wilson might do well in Southern California

politics, so in 1963, Wilson moved to San Diego. After passing the bar exam on his fourth attempt,

Wilson began his practice as a criminal defense attorney in San Diego, but he found such work to be low-paying and

personally repugnant. He later commented to the Los Angeles Times, "I realized I couldn't be a

criminal defense lawyer – because most of the people who do come to you are

guilty." Wilson switched to a more conventional law practice and continued

his activity in local politics, working for Barry Goldwater's in 1964. Wilson's liking for politics and managing the

day-to-day details of the political process was growing. He put in long hours

for the Goldwater campaign, earning the friendship of local Republican boosters

so necessary for a political career, and in 1966, at the age of thirty-three,

he ran for, and won a seat in the California State Assembly,

succeeding Clair Burgener. Wilson was

re-elected to the Assembly in 1968 and 1970, and in 1971 was elected mayor of San

Diego. 

"36th California Governor" Pete Wilson Hand Signed TLS Dated 1997

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