Greg Abbott

Lawyer, Politician

1957 –

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Who is Greg Abbott?

Gregory Wayne Abbott, known as Greg Abbott, is an American lawyer and politician. He is the 50th Attorney General of Texas and the Republican gubernatorial nominee in the general election scheduled on November 4, 2014.

Abbott is only the second Republican since Reconstruction to serve in that role. Abbott was sworn in on December 2, 2002, following fellow Republican John Cornyn's election to the U.S. Senate. Prior to assuming the office of attorney general, Abbott 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 the state of Texas for successfully advocating the ability of the state of Texas to display the Ten Commandments in front of the state Capitol in Austin in a 2005 United States Supreme Court case known as Van Orden v. Perry.

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Born
Nov 13, 1957
Wichita Falls
Spouses
Religion
  • Christianity
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Vanderbilt University Law School
  • Vanderbilt University
Lived in
  • Duncanville
  • Wichita Falls

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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