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.
Pete Ricketts. John Peter Pete Ricketts (born August 19, 1964) is an American politician who is the the 40th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Nebraska, and the former chief operating officer of Ameritrade. He was the Republican nominee for the 2006 U.S. Senate race in Nebraska, which he lost to incumbent Ben Nelson.