Governor Texas Greg Abbott Biography Age Wikipedia Family Marriage Education Career
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Governor Texas Greg Abbott Biography Age Wikipedia Family Marriage Education Career

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Greg Abbott Biography Age Wikipedia Family Marriage Education Career

Gregory Wayne "Greg" Abbott (born November 13, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who currently serves as the 48th Governor of Texassince January 2015. During the Governorship of his predecessor, Rick Perry, Abbott was the 50th Attorney General of Texas and is a Republican.

Abbott was only the second Republican to serve as Attorney General of Texas since Reconstruction. Prior to assuming the office of Attorney General, he was a justice on the Texas Supreme Court, a position to which he was initially appointed in 1995 by then-Governor George W. Bush. He is noted outside of Texas for successfully advocating the right of the state of Texas to display the Ten Commandments in front of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, in a 2005 United States Supreme Court case known as Van Orden v. Perry.


Greg Abbott Biography about Marriage Age Wikipedia

Born


Gregory Wayne Abbott
November 13, 1957(age 59)
Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.

Political party

Republican

Spouse(s)


Cecilia Phalen (1981–present)

Children


1 adopted daughter

Residence


Governor's Mansion

Education

University of Texas, Austin(BBA)
Vanderbilt University (JD)


Greg Abbott Biography about Career

Abbott was born on November 13, 1957 in Wichita Falls, of English descent. His mother, the former Doris Lechristia Jacks, was a homemaker, and his father, Calvin Roger Abbott, was a stockbroker and insurance agent. When he was six years old they moved to Longviewand the family lived in the East Texas city for six years.

At the beginning of junior high school, Abbott's family moved to Duncanville. In his sophomore year in high school, his father died of aheart attack, and his mother went to work in a real estate office. He graduated from Duncanville High School. He was on the track team in high school and won every meet he entered his senior year. He was in the National Honor Society and was voted "Most Likely to Succeed".

In 1981, he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and the Young Republicans’ Club. He met his wife, Cecilia Phelan, while attending UT Austin. In 1984, he earned his J.D. degree from the Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, Tennessee. He commented about his marriage, that "San Antonio is also where Cecilia and I got married at Our Lady of the Lake, 31 years ago. Our marriage wasn’t just the joining of two families. It was a uniting of cultures: My Anglo heritage and Cecilia’s Irish and Hispanic heritage. We may have come from different cultures but we realized that we share the same foundation: “Dos casas. Pero, una fundacion." The story of my family is as old as the story of Texas itself: the uniting of cultures to create one unique people, Texans."


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