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Gregory Wayne Abbott (born November 13, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician, and currently serves as the 48th Governor of Texas. He was the 50th Attorney General of Texas and is a Republican. Abbott was only the second Republican to serve as Attorney General of Texas since Reconstruction. Prior to assuming the office of attorney general, Abbott was a justice on the Texas Supreme Court, a position to which he was initially appointed in 1995 by then-Governor George W. Bush. He is noted outside the state of Texas for successfully advocating the right of the state of Texas to display the Ten Commandments in front of the Texas State Capitol in Austin in a 2005 United States Supreme Court case known as ''Van Orden v. Perry''. ==Early life, education, and early law career== Abbott was born on November 13, 1957 in Wichita Falls, Texas of English descent. His mother, the former Doris Lechristia Jacks, was a homemaker, and his father, Calvin Roger Abbott, was a stockbroker and insurance agent.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Person Details for Gregory Wayne Abbott, "Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997" — FamilySearch.org )〕 When he was six years old they moved to Longview and the family lived in the East Texas city for six years.〔 At the beginning of junior high school, Abbott's family moved to Duncanville in Dallas County. In his sophomore year in high school, his father died of a heart attack, and his mother went to work in a real estate office.〔 He graduated from Duncanville High School.〔(vote-smart.org. )〕 He was on the track team in high school and won every meet he entered his senior year. He was in the National Honor Society and was voted "Most Likely to Succeed".〔 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. He met his wife, Cecilia Phelan, while attending UT.〔 In 1984, he earned his J.D. degree from the Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, Tennessee.〔 He commented about his marriage, that "San Antonio is also where Cecilia and I got married at Our Lady of the Lake, 31 years ago. Our marriage wasn’t just the joining of two families. It was a uniting of cultures: My Anglo heritage and Cecilia’s Irish and Hispanic heritage. We may have come from different cultures but we realized that we share the same foundation: “Dos casas. Pero, una fundacion."The story of my family is as old as the story of Texas itself: the uniting of cultures to create one unique people, Texans."〔http://www.statesman.com/weblogs/first-reading/2014/feb/19/ted-nugent-greg-abbott-and-subhuman-mongrel-who-pr/〕 He went into private practice, working for Butler and Binion, LLC between 1984 and 1992. Abbott’s political career began in Houston, where he served as a state trial judge in the 129th District Court for three years.〔 Abbott became a paraplegic when an oak tree fell on him while he was running following a storm in 1984.〔(Accident set Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on a path toward politics ), May 31, 2010, ''The Dallas Morning News'', Retrieved October 27, 2010〕 He had two steel rods implanted in his spine, underwent extensive rehabilitation at TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston, and has used a wheelchair ever since.〔Fernandez, Manny. ("Candidate Draws Support and Critics for Talk of Disability" ) July 22, 2013. ''The New York Times''.〕〔Ackerman, Todd. "Houston rehab giant ready for Giffords." ''Houston Chronicle''. January 20, 2011. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-rehab-giant-ready-for-Giffords-1687205.php〕 He sued the homeowner and negotiated an insurance settlement worth more than 10 million, resulting in payouts of 14,000 a month.〔(Lawsuit brought Abbott $10 million settlement ), October 8, 2002 Austin American-Statesman〕 Abbott later championed laws capping punitive damages to two times the amount of economic damages awarded plus 750,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, Sec. 41.008(b) )〕 While the current law caps punitive damages, which are meant to punish gross negligence or bad faith, the law still allows payments for medical costs, potential lost wages, economic damages and noneconomic losses, such as pain and suffering and loss of enjoyment of life. Matt Hirsch, a spokesman for the Abbott campaign, said the attorney general did not seek punitive damages in his lawsuit.〔Hoppe, Christy, August 2, 2013, ''The Dallas Morning News'', Retrieved March 31, 2014.()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greg Abbott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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