Trivias Of Greg Abbott
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Greg Abbott is the third governor of any U.S. state to permanently use a wheelchair.
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He successfully advocated for the Texas State Capitol to display the Ten Commandments in the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case Van Orden v. Perry.
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In his sophomore year in high school, his father died of a heart attack; his mother went to work in a real estate office.
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In 1981, he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and the Young Republicans Club.
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His judicial career began in Houston, where he served as a state trial judge in the 129th District Court for three years.