JERRY BROWN

BORN: April 7, 1938, in San Francisco.

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in Latin and Greek from the University of California, 1961; law degree from Yale Law School, 1964.

CAREER: Private law practice, 1965-70; member of Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees, 1969-70; California secretary of state, 1971-75; California governor, 1975-83; private law practice, 1983-91; chairman, California Democratic Party, 1989-91.

PERSONAL: Brown has never married.

.On his creation of the California Conservation Corps: "In 15 years, 15000 young men and women have gotten off the streets, gone into the High Sierras, fought fires, developed manhood, womanhood, good citizenship," Brown said last month. "This democracy and this government is controlled not by the American people but by those who are bringing it down."

.On diversity in government: Half the members of Brown's first Cabinet were women, and he named the first black and first Hispanic to the state Supreme Court as well as its first woman chief justice.

.On judicial appointments: "If you appoint people of stature, who have been around a long time, who have a track record...that will give us a lot more than the Supreme Court that has been very much tilted to the right, and following a litmus test."

.On the American political system: "There is a terrific number of ideas if we get people outside the club," he said in the Democrats December debate. "And my objection to this whole political process and why I've gotten into it--its a club too closely controlled."

BILL CLINTON

BORN: Aug. 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas.

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree from Georgetown School of Foreign Service, 1968-70; Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, 1968-70; law degree from Yale law School, 1973.

CAREER: Law professor at University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, 1974-76; Arkansas attorney general, 1976-78; Arkansas governor, 1979-80 and 1983-present; attorney, 1981-82.

PERSONAL Married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, a lawyer. One daughter.

.On his performance as governor: Clinton says he's done as much as possible for Arkansas "in the absence of a national vision and national leadership."