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Cecilia Phalen was born on November 13, 1959. Abbott was raised in San Antonio, Texas by her parents, both of whom were educators, and she had three siblings. Abbott graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School. She then attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she met her future husband, Greg Abbott. [1]
Gregory Wayne Abbott (/ æ b ə t / ABB-ət; born November 13, 1957) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist 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. Abbott is the ...
After news of President Jimmy Carter’s passing broke, Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent his condolences to First Lady Rosalynn Carter, the president’s wife who died over a year ago. “Cecilia ...
A conservative, [1] Tea Party [2] Republican, Huffines represented District 16 in the Texas Senate from 2015 to 2019. He lost his re-election campaign in 2018. Remaining active in politics, Huffines ran for Governor of Texas in the 2022 Republican primary, challenging incumbent Greg Abbott [3] after the COVID-19 pandemic and government ...
A Republican running for Congress in Virginia has gone viral after sharing what appears to be family photos online — as it was revealed the woman and three girls he was posing with were his ...
Gov. Greg Abbott last year vowed to help elect and reelect House candidates who support "school choice," a program that uses public money to pay for private schooling, after he suffered multiple ...
The house bill was passed by both chambers and was sent to the governor for signature on May 29, 2019. [19] Governor Abbott signed the bill into law on June 14, 2019. [20] In February 2019, Toth co-authored Texas House Bill 1500 which would ban abortions after the detection of an unborn child's heartbeat. [21]
Abbott, a Republican, had ordered the state Department of Family Protective Services (DFPS) to carry out child abuse investigations into families whose children were receiving puberty-blocking ...