Greg Abbott Wheelchair Accident

Gregory Wayne Abbott is the 48th governor of Texas, having been elected in 2015. He is an American politician, attorney, and former judge. Governor Abbott was elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2018.

Since Reconstruction, Abbott was the third Republican to serve as Attorney General of Texas. With 12 years in office, he was first elected with 57$ of the vote in 2002, then re-elected with 60% in 2006 and 64% in 2010, making him the longest-serving Texas attorney general in state history.

Abbott served as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court before becoming attorney general, a position he was appointed to by then-governor George W. Bush in 1995. Abbott was elected to a full term in office.

How did Greg Abbott end up in a Wheelchair?

Abbott was paralysed below the waist when an oak tree fell on him while jogging following a storm on July 14, 1984, when he was 26 years old. He underwent intensive therapy at TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston and has been in a wheelchair ever since.

He sued the homeowner and a tree service firm and won an insurance settlement that includes lump sum benefits every three years until 2022, as well as monthly payments for the rest of his life, both of which are inflation-adjusted.