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Lee Brand was born on 5 April, 1949 in The Dalles, Oregon, U.S., is a Mayor of Fresno, California, United States. Discover Lee Brand's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?
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His wife is Trish Brand (m. 1980)
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Lee Brand Net Worth
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Lee R. Brand (born April 5, 1949) is an American politician and businessman who is the 25th mayor of Fresno, California.
Brand's family arrived in Fresno in 1954 where he and his brother began Elementary school.
Growing up in a poor household, Brand began committing petty theft while in elementary school.
While in junior high, Brand and some friends were arrested for breaking and entering several schools and served time in the juvenile hall work program.
In 1964, when Brand was only 15, his father died in a plane crash.
At Theodore Roosevelt High School in Fresno, Brand was an average student who competed on the cross country and track teams and ran a 1:59 half-miler in his junior year.
He became a voracious reader is senior year and his grades started improving.
After graduating in 1967, Brand briefly attended Fresno City College before enlisting in the California Air National Guard.
After less than half a year in active duty as a technician, Brand returned to Fresno and engaged in a lifestyle he described as "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" before experiencing a "calling from God" in 1971.
Brand began taking heavy course loads at Fresno City College and later California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) and graduated in 1973 from Fresno State summa cum laude.
Brand paid for his education by working at a local Sears and doing weekend patrol for the California Air National Guard.
He later received an honorable discharge from the Guard.
Brand completed his M.P.A. at the University of Southern California in 1974 via a project instead of thesis.
From 1974 to 1978, Brand was an assistant mental health administrator for Madera County.
On the side, Brand flipped houses and eventually opened a real estate business, Brand-Glenn & Associates, and car stereo store named The Sound Machine.
Brand's real estate business became Brand & Associates in 1981, and Brand co-founded Westco Equities in 1987.
In 1996, Brand managed the successful campaign of Fresno City Council candidate Ken Steitz.
After an unsuccessful campaign for the city council in 2000, Brand began serving on the Fresno Planning Commission as an appointee of mayor Alan Autry.
Brand won election to the City Council in 2008 for the northeast Fresno seat previously held by Jerry Duncan.
In 2011, he served as the Council President.
He was re-elected to a second four term in 2012.
During his eight years on the Fresno City Council, he wrote 19 legislative acts focused on fiscal management and better
In 2016, Brand ran for the Mayor of the City of Fresno.
He finished second in the primary and won the November runoff.
Upon inauguration, Brand became the oldest to assume the mayoralty of Fresno beating the previous holder Dr. Chester A. Rowell by 3 years and 21 days.
Brand was born in The Dalles, Oregon.
His father was Archie L. Brand better known as ‘Brandy,’ of English descent, and his mother was Florence G. Trosi.
His parents, his brother and he lived in a small motel room with no indoor bathroom.
Archie and Florence worked for his grandfather Archie M. Brand better known as A.M. as dishwashers and general labor at the café, gas station, motel and small zoo A.M. operated.
Brand's mother was from Fresno, and his maternal grandfather and grandmother, Ralph Trosi and Pierina Trosi immigrated to the U.S. from Naples.
The Brand family moved to Fresno when A.M. no longer ran the roadside business and started a career as a sea lion trainer, touring the county with his ‘Sparky the Seal’ act.
He was sworn in as the 25th Mayor of Fresno on January 3, 2017.
Lee Brand concluded his term as Mayor of Fresno on January 5, 2021.
After finishing his political career, he began researching his family ancestry finding surprising information about his father and grandfather.
This motivated him to write a book about family relationships through generations.
His debut novel Discovering the Family I Never Knew, is a fictional book inspired by real people and events in his life.