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Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician. He is the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of California, after being elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. In 2003, he was elected the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco, the city's youngest in a hundred years. Newsom was re-elected in 2007 with 72 percent of the vote.〔SFGov (November 6, 2007) ("Election Summary: November 6, 2007." ) San Francisco City and County Department of Elections.〕 Newsom graduated from Redwood High School and Santa Clara University. He has co-founded 11 businesses, 10 in which family friend Gordon Getty has been an investor. San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown appointed Newsom to serve on the city's Parking and Traffic Commission in 1996, and then as a member of the Board of Supervisors the following year. Newsom drew voter attention with his Care Not Cash program, designed to move homeless people into city-assisted care. In February 2015, Newsom announced he was opening a committee to run for Governor of California in 2018. ==Early life== Newsom was born in San Francisco, California, to Tessa Thomas (Menzies) and William Alfred Newsom III, a retired state appeals court justice and attorney for Getty Oil. He is a fourth-generation San Franciscan. His father is of Irish descent, while one of his maternal great-grandfathers, Scotsman Thomas Addis, was a pioneer scientist in the field of nephrology and a professor of medicine at Stanford University. Newsom is the second cousin, twice removed, of musician Joanna Newsom. Newsom's parents separated when he was 2 and divorced in 1972. At age 10, Newsom moved with his mother and sister, to nearby Marin County.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gavin Newsom Descended from King of France? )〕 In May 2002, his mother died after a five-year fight with breast cancer. While Newsom later reflected that he did not have an easy childhood,〔 he attended kindergarten and first grade at the French American bilingual school in San Francisco. He eventually transferred because of severe dyslexia that still affects him. His dyslexia has made it difficult for him to write, spell, read and work with numbers.〔 He attended third through fifth grades at Notre Dame des Victoires, where he was placed in remedial reading classes.〔 Newsom graduated from Redwood High School in 1985. He played basketball and baseball in high school.〔 Newsom was an outfielder in baseball. His basketball skills placed him on the cover of the ''Marin Independent Journal.''〔 Newsom's childhood friend Derek Smith recalled Newsom as "one of the hardest working players on the team who became a great player because of his effort, instead of his natural abilities."〔 Newsom's father attended his games with San Francisco politicians that included John Burton and Quentin Kopp. Newsom's father had ties to several other local politicians.〔 Newsom's aunt was married to Ron Pelosi, the brother-in-law of former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. Newsom's father was also a friend of Governor Jerry Brown.〔 Tessa Newsom worked three jobs to support Gavin and his sister Hilary Newsom Callan, who is the president of the PlumpJack Group, named after the opera ''Plump Jack'' composed by family friend Gordon Getty. In an interview with ''The San Francisco Chronicle,'' his sister recalled Christmas holidays when their mother told them there wouldn't be any gifts.〔 Tessa opened their home to foster children, instilling in Newsom the importance of public service.〔〔 His father's finances were strapped in part because of his tendency to give away his earnings.〔 Newsom worked several jobs in high school to help support his family.〔 Newsom attended Santa Clara University on a partial baseball scholarship and student loans, where he graduated in 1989 with a B.S. in political science. Newsom was a left-handed pitcher for Santa Clara, but he threw his arm out after two years and hasn't thrown a baseball since.〔 He lived in the Alameda apartments, which he later compared to living in a hotel. He later reflected on his education fondly, crediting the Jesuit approach of Santa Clara that he said has helped him become an independent thinker who questions orthodoxy. Newsom spent a semester studying abroad in Rome. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gavin Newsom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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