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Rick Perry is the longest-serving governor, having assumed the governorship in 2000 upon the exit of George W. Bush, who resigned to take office as the 43rd president of the United States. Perry was elected in 2002 and he was re-elected in 2006 and 2010 serving for 14 years before choosing to retire in 2014.
Governor: Took office: Left office: Notes: Domingo Terán de los Ríos: January 23, 1691 March 5, 1692 Official governor; previously served as governor of Sonora y Sinaloa (1681–1686), New Spain. Gregorio de Salinas Varona: 1692 1697 (Texas) / 1698 (Coahuila) Official governor; subsequently governed Nuevo León (1705–1707) and Honduras ...
Clements was the first governor to be elected to multiple terms since Texas changed its constitution in 1972 to extend its governor's term of office to four years. Since then, George W. Bush, Rick Perry, and Greg Abbott, also Republicans, have all won multiple terms.
George W. Bush served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 until 2000, when he resigned as governor amid his transition into the U.S. presidency after having been elected president in the 2000 United States presidential election. As governor, Bush successfully sponsored legislation for tort reform, increased education funding, set higher ...
The 1994 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1994, to elect the governor of Texas. Incumbent Democratic governor Ann Richards was defeated in her bid for re-election by Republican nominee and future president George W. Bush , the son of former president George H. W. Bush .
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]
For a complete chronological list of Texas governors, ... George W. Bush (8 C, 53 P) D. Democratic Party governors of Texas (40 P) G. Governors of Mexican Texas (7 P)
George H.W. Bush. Before: $4 million. After: $23 million. The elder Bush had grown his net worth by 475% between the time he took office in 1989 and 2017, when The American University study was ...