Candidates / Greg Abbott

Greg Abbott

R Challenger ✓ Won Mar 3 primary Safe R Texas · Running for Governor

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Greg Abbott (Republican Party) is the Governor of Texas. He assumed office on January 20, 2015 and is running for re-election for Governor of Texas. Abbott worked in private practice as an attorney from 1984 to 1992. He served as a district court judge in Houston from 1993 to 1995 and justice on the Supreme Court of Texas from 1996 to 2001. He then held elected office, first as the attorney general of Texas from 2002 to 2015, an then as the governor of Texas, beginning in 2015.