This article is about the politician. For other people with the same name, see Greg Abbott (disambiguation).
Greg Abbott
Official portrait, 2024
48th Governor of Texas
Incumbent
Assumed office January 20, 2015
Lieutenant
Dan Patrick
Preceded by
Rick Perry
Chair of the Republican Governors Association
In office November 21, 2019 – December 9, 2020
Preceded by
Pete Ricketts
Succeeded by
Doug Ducey
50th Attorney General of Texas
In office December 2, 2002 – January 5, 2015
Governor
Rick Perry
Preceded by
John Cornyn
Succeeded by
Ken Paxton
Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
In office January 2, 1996 – June 6, 2001[1]
Appointed by
George W. Bush
Preceded by
Jack Hightower
Succeeded by
Xavier Rodriguez
Personal details
Born
Gregory Wayne Abbott
(1957-11-13) November 13, 1957 (age 66) Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.
Political party
Republican
Spouse
Cecilia Phalen
(m. 1981)
Children
1
Residence
Governor's Mansion
Education
University of Texas at Austin (BBA) Vanderbilt University (JD)
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Gregory Wayne Abbott (born November 13, 1957) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist serving as the 48th governor of Texas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 50th attorney general of Texas from 2002 to 2015 and as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1996 to 2001.
Abbott was the third Republican to serve as attorney general of Texas since the Reconstruction era. He was elected to that office with 57% of the vote in 2002 and reelected with 60% in 2006 and 64% in 2010, becoming the longest-serving Texas attorney general in state history, with 12 years of service. Before becoming attorney general, Abbott was a justice of the Texas Supreme Court, a position to which he was appointed in 1995 by then-governor George W. Bush. Abbott won a full term in 1998 with 60% of the vote. As attorney general, he successfully advocated for the Texas State Capitol to display the Ten Commandments in the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case Van Orden v. Perry, and unsuccessfully defended the state's ban on same-sex marriage. He was involved in numerous lawsuits against the Barack Obama administration, seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act and the administration's environmental regulations.
Elected in 2014, Abbott is the first Texas governor and third governor of a U.S. state to use a wheelchair, the others being Franklin D. Roosevelt and George Wallace. As governor, Abbott supported the Donald Trump administration and has promoted a conservative agenda, including measures against abortion such as the Texas Heartbeat Act, lenient gun laws, opposition to illegal immigration, support for law enforcement funding, and election reform. In response to the power crisis following a February 2021 winter storm, Abbott called for reforms to Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and signed a bill requiring power plant weatherization. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas, Abbott opposed implementing face mask and vaccine mandates, while blocking local governments, businesses, and other organizations from implementing their own. He has also made a priority of fighting illegal immigration, starting Operation Lone Star in 2021.
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Cecilia Phalen Abbott (born November 13, 1959) is the First Lady of Texas. She is married to GregAbbott, and is the first Hispanic First Lady of Texas...
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Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously recommended that Texas Governor GregAbbott grant Reed a 120-day reprieve. Later that day, the Texas Court of Criminal...
the commander in chief of the Texas Military. The current governor is GregAbbott, who took office in 2015. Anyone seeking to become Governor of Texas...
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is the head of government of the U.S. state of Texas. The incumbent, GregAbbott, is the forty-eighth governor to serve in the office since Texas' statehood...
either by former Governor Rick Perry or by the current Governor of Texas, GregAbbott, who is himself a former member of the court. Like the judges on the...
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