Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott is a Governor of Texas since 2015. Born November 13, 1957, in Wichita Falls. Positions held include Texas Attorney General (2002–2015) and Governor of Texas (2015–). Educated at University of Texas at Austin and Duncanville High School.
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What Wikidata says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 2565185019
- Described as
- Governor of Texas since 2015
- Other names
- Gregory Wayne Abbott, Gregory W. Abbott
- Born
- November 13, 1957 · 1 reference
- Born in
- Wichita Falls
- Name at birth
- Gregory Wayne Abbott
- Citizen of
- United States
- Occupation
- lawyer; politician · 1 reference; judge; governor · 1 reference; jurist · 1 reference
- Positions held
- Texas Attorney General (2002–2015); Governor of Texas (2015–) · 1 reference
- Political party
- Republican Party
- Education
- University of Texas at Austin; Duncanville High School · 1 reference; Vanderbilt University Law School; Vanderbilt University · 1 reference; McCombs School of Business
- Spouse
- Cecilia Abbott · 1 reference
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Lived in
- Texas Governor's Mansion · 1 reference
- Website
- http://www.gregabbott.com/
- Wikipedias with a page
- 53
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What Wikipedia says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 1385500543
Gregory Wayne Abbott ( ABB-ət; born November 13, 1957) is an American politician and lawyer serving since 2015 as the 48th Governor of Texas. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2002 to 2015 as the 50th attorney general of Texas and from 1996 to 2001 as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court. As of 2026, Abbott is the longest-serving incumbent governor in the United States.
Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and Vanderbilt University Law School. After practicing law at a limited liability partnership between 1984 and 1992, he served as a state trial judge in the 129th District Court for three years. In 1995, Abbott was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court by Governor George W. Bush and was reelected to a full term in 1998. After he resigned from the Supreme Court to run for Texas lieutenant governor, he returned to private practice.
Elected Texas attorney general in 2002, Abbott was reelected in 2006 and 2010. During his tenure, he defended the display of the Ten Commandments at the Texas State Capitol 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 also involved in numerous lawsuits against the administration of Barack Obama, seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act and federal environmental regulations.
Abbott was elected Texas governor in 2014 and reelected in 2018 and 2022. Closely aligned with Donald Trump, he enacted a conservative agenda, including maintaining Texas's total abortion ban, increasing law enforcement funding, and restricting voting rights. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he opposed face mask and vaccine mandates and issued executive orders restricting local governments and businesses from implementing their own requirements. In 2026, he lost the gubernatorial election to Democratic nominee Gina Hinojosa in an upset.
- Born, in its opening lines
- November 13, 1957
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