- Governor of California, 2019-present.
- Lieutenant Governor of California (2011-19).
- Mayor of San Francisco (2004-11).
- Became engaged to actress/producer/humanitarian Jennifer Siebel Newsom. (December 29, 2007)
- Said in a 2014 interview with the San Francisco Examiner that the impetus to marry same-sex couples in San Francisco was the 2004 State of the Union address (to which he was invited) in which President George W. Bush advocated a ban to such marriages through a constitutional amendment.
- Chosen by Time Magazine as one of 17 "People Who Matter" for 2004.
- Nephew of Cindy Gilmore.
- Father, with wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom, of daughters Montana and Brooklynn and sons Hunter and Dutch.
- Dated Kelley Phleger.
- He is of Irish, English, and Scottish descent. He is a second cousin, once removed, of Joanna Newsom, through Gavin's great-grandparents.
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