Rick Perry | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 04/12/2018

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Rick Perry


00:01:17 1 Early life
00:02:18 1.1 College
00:02:57 1.2 First jobs
00:04:32 2 Early political career
00:04:42 2.1 Texas Legislature
00:05:55 2.2 Agriculture Commissioner
00:09:02 2.3 Lieutenant Governor
00:09:50 3 Governor of Texas
00:11:32 3.1 Fiscal policies
00:13:42 3.2 Healthcare
00:16:23 3.3 Religion
00:18:14 3.4 Education
00:19:16 3.5 LGBT rights
00:22:03 3.6 Crime
00:22:44 3.7 Death penalty
00:24:14 3.8 Infrastructure
00:24:44 3.9 Gun ownership
00:25:04 3.10 Illegal immigration
00:25:47 3.11 Veto controversy and exoneration
00:27:06 3.12 Retirement as governor
00:28:07 4 2012 presidential campaign
00:29:05 5 2016 presidential campaign
00:30:26 6 Secretary of Energy
00:32:02 7 Political future
00:33:02 8 Career outside politics
00:33:35 8.1 iDancing with the Stars/i
00:34:01 9 Books and speeches
00:34:50 10 Personal life
00:36:16 11 Electoral history
00:36:26 12 See also



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James Richard "Rick" Perry (born March 4, 1950) is an American politician who is the 14th and current United States Secretary of Energy, serving in the Cabinet of Donald Trump. Prior to his cabinet position, Perry served as the 47th Governor of Texas from December 2000 to January 2015. A Republican, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when Governor George W. Bush resigned to become president. Perry was the longest-serving Governor in Texas history.
Perry was elected three times to full gubernatorial terms and is the fourth Texas Governor (after Allan Shivers, Price Daniel and John Connally) to serve three terms. With a tenure in office of 14 years, 30 days, Perry was, at the time he left office, the second longest-serving current governor (after Terry Branstad of Iowa). Perry ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for president in 2012 and 2016.
On December 14, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Perry as his Secretary of Energy. On March 2, 2017, he was confirmed by the United States Senate in a 62–37 vote.