Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Coolie(noun) same as Cooly. 2  Coolie(noun) an East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
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.
Only the second governor in California's history to be born in a foreign country. John Downey, the 7th Governor of California, was born in Ireland and served from 1860-1862. Has his look-alike puppet in the French show Les guignols de l'info (1988).