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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Pete Wilson, Roy Bean, Roger Hedgecock, List of mayors of San Diego, Susan Golding, Jerry Sanders, William H. Carlson, Toni Atkins, List of pre-statehood mayors of San Diego, California, Robert Clift, Jr., Maureen O'Connor, Dick Murphy, James W. Robinson, Rutherford B. Irones, Michael Zucchet, Jose Antonio Estudillo, Harley E. Knox, George P. Tebbetts, Matthew Sherman, Walter W. Austin, Edwin M. Capps, James E. Wadham, Louis J. Wilde, William E. Cleator, Sr., Charles F. O'Neall, Francis Earl Curran, Percy J. Benbough, Howard B. Bard, Douglas Gunn, Henry H. Whaley, Joshua Bean, John L. Sehon, John F. Forward, Jr., John D. Butler, Roger Welles, John F. Forward, Sr., Harry C. Clark, David C. Reed, John L. Bacon, David B. Kurtz, Frank P. Frary, Charles C. Dail, Grant Conard, Jose Ramon Arguello. Excerpt: Peter Barton "Pete" Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American politician from California. Wilson, a Republican, served as the 36th Governor of California (1991-1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator (1983-1991), eleven years as Mayor of San Diego (1971-1982) and four years as a California State Assemblyman (1967-1971). 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. His father was originally a jewelry salesman who later became a successful advertising executive. The Wilson family moved to St. Louis, Missouri when Pete was in junior high school. There, he attended the 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 1952, Pete Wilson enrolled at the Yale University in Connecticut, where he rece...