Greg Abbott (other)
Greg Abbott (born 1957) is the 48th governor of Texas. Greg or Gregory Abbott may also refer to: * Greg Abbott (footballer) (born 1963), English football manager and former player *Reverend Gadget or Greg Abbott, American television personality * Gregory Abbott (born 1954), American soul musician, singer, composer and producer *Gregory Abbott (1900–1981), announcer for Paramount News Paramount News was a newsreel series that was produced by Paramount Pictures from 1927 to 1957. History The Paramount newsreel operation began in 1927 with Emanuel Cohen as an editor. It typically distributed two issues per week to theaters acro ...

Greg Abbott
Gregory Wayne Abbott ( ; born November 13, 1957) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist who has served since 2015 as the 48th governor of Texas. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served from 2002 to 2015 as the 50th Texas Attorney General, attorney general of Texas and from 1996 to 2001 as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Abbott is the longest-serving incumbent governor in the United States. Abbott was the third Republican to serve as attorney general of Texas since the Reconstruction era, Reconstruction era. He was elected to that office with 57% of the vote in 2002 Texas Attorney General election, 2002 and reelected with 60% in 2006 Texas Attorney General election, 2006 and 64% in 2010 Texas Attorney General election, 2010, becoming the longest-serving attorney general in state history, with 12 years of service. Before becoming attorney general, Abbott was a justice of the Texas Supreme Court, a position to which he was appoin ...
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Greg Abbott (footballer)
Gregory Stephen Abbott (born 14 December 1963) is an English football coach and former player He played as a right back or midfielder. Abbott was the manager of Carlisle United from December 2008 until September 2013. Born in Coventry, Abbott started his career with his hometown team Coventry City. He was released without playing a game but recommended to Bradford City, where he won the Division Three title in the 1984–85 season and went on to play more than 300 games. He had spells with Halifax Town and non-league Guiseley before he returned to The Football League with former manager Terry Dolan at Hull City. He spent four seasons with Hull playing another 100 games to take his career total to in excess of 500 first team matches. After retiring, he went into coaching. He spent a decade at Leeds United coaching a number of junior and reserve sides, before he was appointed assistant manager of Carlisle United in 2006. He spent a brief spell as caretaker mana ...
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Reverend Gadget
Gregory Abbott, known professionally as Reverend Gadget, is a steel fabrication artist, craftsman, prop builder and television personality based in Los Angeles, California. He is best known to television audiences as part of the build team on the short-lived Discovery Channel series ''Big!'' and has more recently been part of their other series ''Monster House (American TV series), Monster House'' and ''Smash Lab''. He is currently working with ''EarthxTV'' on his own series ''Reverend Gadget's Garage'' – also known as ''Gadget's World'' – in which he shows his advocation of alternative energy sources by converting gasoline-powered vehicles to electricity. Abbott took the name "Reverend Gadget" to reflect both his craftsman works and the fact that he has been an ordained minister since 1986. Early life and education Abbott was born in Torrance, California. He attended one year of college at Menlo College before dropping out. More than half a decade later he returned ...
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Gregory Abbott
Gregory Joel Abbott (born April 2, 1954) is an American singer, musician, composer and producer. Although he continues to record to date, he is best known for his singles in the mid-1980s including his platinum single, " Shake You Down", from his 1986 debut album. Biography Early life Abbott was born in Harlem, New York. Abbott's parents were from Venezuela and Antigua. During his early years, Abbott's mother taught him how to play piano and encouraged him to develop vocally. Before his career as a musician, Abbott studied psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and creative writing at Stanford; where he won a Wallace Stegner fellowship. Before becoming a musician, Abbott taught as a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Music career One of Abbott's first opportunities in his studio was an album for an independent record label, which gave him the opportunity to do a duet with Whitney Houston. Continuing on, Abbott produced for the gro ...
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