Notable Facts
→Currently serving third term as Texas Governor, first elected in 2014 and reelected in 2018 and 2022
→Previously served as Texas Attorney General from 2002-2015 and Texas Supreme Court Justice 1996-2001
→As of 2025, Abbott is the longest-serving incumbent governor in the United States
→Won 2022 gubernatorial election with 54.8% of vote, defeating Beto O'Rourke
→Running for unprecedented fourth term in 2026
→First Texas governor to use a wheelchair, paralyzed in 1984 by a falling tree
→Led high-profile Operation Lone Star border security initiative
→Has bused migrants to Democratic sanctuary cities as part of immigration policy
→Oversees Texas as eighth-largest economy in the world with 52 Fortune 500 companies