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Salary. $150,000 (2013) [1] Website. gov.texas.gov. The governor of Texas is the head of government of the U.S. state of Texas. The incumbent, Greg Abbott, is the forty-eighth governor to serve in the office since Texas' statehood in 1845. When compared to those of other states, the governorship of Texas has been described as one of relative ...
Gregorio de Salinas Varona. 1692. 1697 (Texas) / 1698 (Coahuila) Official governor; He also governed Nuevo León (1705–1707) and Honduras (1705–1709) Francisco Cuervo y Valdés. 1698. 1702 (Texas) / 1703 (Coahuila) Official governor; He also governed Nuevo León (1687–1688) and Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico (1705–1707) Matías de Aguirre.
The government of Texas operates under the Constitution of Texas and consists of a unitary democratic state government operating under a presidential system that uses the Dillon Rule, as well as governments at the county and municipal levels. Austin is the capital of Texas. The State Capitol resembles the United States Capitol in Washington, D ...
Governor of Texas. The Governor of Texas heads the state government of Texas and is the highest elected official in the state. The governor is the leader of the executive and legislative branches of the state government and is the commander in chief of the Texas Military. The current governor is Greg Abbott, who took office in 2015.
Sam Houston (1793–1863), general of the Texan Revolution, commander at the Battle of San Jacinto and later president of the Republic of Texas, U.S. Senator and governor of the state of Texas 22,066: 1,231 sq mi (3,188 km 2) Howard County: 227: Big Spring: 1876: Bexar County: Volney Eskine Howard, U.S. Representative from Texas (1849–1853 ...
The average age of governors at the time of their inauguration was about 59 years old. Alabama governor Kay Ivey (born 1944) is the oldest current governor, and Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (born 1982) is the youngest. [16] As of the 2022 elections, there are 12 female state governors currently serving.
Abbott was sworn in as governor of Texas on January 20, 2015, succeeding Rick Perry. [90] [91] He is the first governor of Texas and the third elected governor of a U.S. state to use a wheelchair, after Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (1929–1932) and George Wallace of Alabama (1963–1967, 1971–1979; 1983–1987). [92] [93] [94]
University of Texas at Austin. Dorothy Ann Richards (née Willis; September 1, 1933 – September 13, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer, when she gave the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National ...