Rick Perry Governor of Texas

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James Richard "Rick" Perry (born March 4, 1950) is the 47th and current Governor of Texas, having held the office since December 2000.
He is a member of the Republican Party.

Elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998, he assumed office as governor in December 2000 when Governor George W. Bush resigned
to become President of the United States. Perry was elected to full terms in 2002, 2006 and 2010, an unprecedented feat in Texas
political history. With a tenure in office to date of &000000000000001000000010 years, &0000000000000199000000199 days, Perry
is the longest continuously serving current U.S. governor, and the second longest serving current U.S. governor, after Terry Branstad of Iowa.

Perry served as Chairman of the Republican Governors Association in 2008 (succeeding Sonny Perdue of Georgia), and in 2011 will
once again serve as RGA Chairman.

Perry holds all records for Texas gubernatorial tenure, having broken both Allan Shivers' consecutive service record of 71⁄2 years
in June 2008 and Bill Clements' total service record of eight years (over two non-consecutive terms) in December 2008. As a result,
the Dallas Morning News reported in December 2008 that Perry has the distinction of being the only governor in modern Texas history
to have appointed at least one person to every possible state office, board, or commission position which requires gubernatorial
appointment (as well as to several elected offices to which the governor can appoint someone to fill an unexpired term, such as
six of the nine current members of the Texas Supreme Court).
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