<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Official website </Td> </Tr> <P> The Governor of California is the chief executive of the California state government, commander - in - chief of the California National Guard and the California State Military Reserve, whose responsibilities also include making annual State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced . The position was created in 1849, the year before California became a state . The current governor is Jerry Brown, a Democrat who was inaugurated January 3, 2011, and who had previously served as governor from 1975 to 1983 . In October 2013, Jerry Brown surpassed Earl Warren for the longest cumulative period of time served as governor . </P> <P> Governors are elected by popular ballot and serve terms of four years, with a limit of two terms, if served after November 6, 1990 . Governors take the following oath: </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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