dan patrick held office longer than any previous texas governor.
held office longer than any previous texas governor?
dan patrick
despite the lack of term limits, no texas governor in the 19th or 20th centuries ever served more than seven and a half consecutive years in office (allan shivers) or eight years total service (bill clements, in two non-consecutive four-year terms). former governor rick perry, who served from 2000 to 2015, has now surpassed both these records, becoming the first texas governor to serve three consecutive four-year terms. when perry won the general election on november 2, 2010, he joined shivers, price daniel, and john connally as the only texas governors elected to three terms (the terms served by governors shivers, daniel, and connally were 2 year terms). in case of a vacancy in the office of governor, the lieutenant governor becomes governor. this rule was added only in a 1999 amendment, prior to which the lieutenant governor only acted as governor, except during the time of the 1861 constitution, which said that the lieutenant governor would be styled "governor of the state of texas" in case of vacancy.
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bullet::::- 2010 texas gubernatorial general election: rick perry (r) vs bill white (d) graph of multiple polls from "pollster.com"









































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