Rick Perry
State GovernorBorn: 4 March 1950
Birthplace: Paint Creek, Texas
Best known as: Governor of Texas, 2000-present
Name at birth: James Richard Perry
Rick Perry has been the governor of Texas since 2000. Perry graduated from Texas A&M University in 1972 with a degree in animal science. He was a cargo pilot in the Air Force from 1972-77, and then became a cotton farmer with his father. Handsome and charismatic, and a fifth-generation Texan, Rick Perry was elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1984, from Texas District 64. In 1989 Perry switched from the Democratic Party to the Republicans, and in 1990 was elected as the state's Agriculture Commissioner, serving for two full terms. He ran successfully for lieutenant governor in 1998, taking office in 1999 under Governor George W. Bush. Perry then became governor himself on 21 December 2000, after Bush was elected President of the United States. Rick Perry was elected in his own right in 2002, and established himself as a favorite of the GOP's right wing: anti-tax, anti-big government, pro-business, anti-abortion, evangelical, tough on crime (he vetoed a ban on the executions of mentally retarded prisoners in 2002), and an outspoken doubter of global warming. He was reelected in 2006 and again in 2010, and on 13 August 2011 he announced that he would run for the GOP nomination for president in 2012. He is the author of the 2010 book Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington.
Extra credit : Rick Perry married the former Anita Thigpen in 1982. They have two children: a son, Griffin, and a daughter, Sydney. According to the governor's official state biography, "He first met Anita Thigpen at a piano recital during their elementary school years"... Rick Perry is the 47th governor of Texas... He is an Eagle Scout and wrote the 2008 book On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts are Worth Fighting For... His hometown, Paint Creek, is a small town near Abilene in Central Texas... While governor of Texas, he had cameo roles as the governor of Texas in the 2005 comedy Man of the House and the 2011 drama Deep in the Heart.
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