Greg Abbott
Republican · Governor of Texas
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The changes are confined to the article's category tags at the bottom. The category "21st-century American male writers" was removed and replaced with "21st-century American male non-fiction writers," and the category "American male non-fiction writers" was added. No body text, dates, names, or quoted material were altered.
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The phrase "the cities of" was removed from the sentence describing where Abbott grew up, changing "between the cities of Longview and Duncanville" to simply "between Longview and Duncanville." This is the only change visible in the diff, concentrated in the opening biographical paragraph.
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The phrase "the cities of" was removed from the sentence describing where Abbott grew up, changing "between the cities of Longview and Duncanville" to simply "between Longview and Duncanville." This is the only change visible in the diff, concentrated in the opening biographical paragraph.
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The only change is the addition of a new section heading, "Artificial Intelligence & Data Centers," inserted after the existing paragraph about abortion legislation. No text was removed, and no factual claims, dates, or names were altered.
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Two new section headers were added after the existing abortion policy paragraph: "=== Artificial Intelligence & Data Centers ===" and "'''Local government preemption'''". The local government preemption section adds factual content about Abbott signing House Bill 2127 in June 2023 (the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act), including details about a Travis County district judge's ruling and subsequent appeals court decision from July 18, 2025, with citations to The Texas Tribune. The net character count is listed as zero change, suggesting the diff shown is truncated and the full addition may be offset by removals not visible in this window.
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Two new section headers were added after the existing abortion policy paragraph: "=== Artificial Intelligence & Data Centers ===" and "'''Local government preemption'''". The local government preemption section adds factual content about Abbott signing House Bill 2127 in June 2023 (the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act), including details about a Travis County district judge's ruling and subsequent appeals court decision from July 18, 2025, with citations to The Texas Tribune. The net character count is listed as zero change, suggesting the diff shown is truncated and the full addition may be offset by removals not visible in this window.
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The phrase "State Senator" was changed to "[[Texas Senate| State Senator ]]" in the description of Wendy Davis, adding a wikilink to the Texas Senate article. This change is concentrated in a single sentence within the 2014 gubernatorial campaign section.
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A reference citation was added to the infobox for the end date of Abbott's Texas Supreme Court term. The description of Abbott's children in the infobox was changed from "1 (adopted)" to "1." In the introductory biographical paragraph, the phrase "near cities of" was changed to "the cities of."
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The short description changed from "American attorney and politician (born 1957)" to "Governor of Texas since 2015." In the infobox, the link formatting for Rick Perry under office2 was simplified (removing the wiki-link brackets), the spouse field changed from linking "Cecilia Abbott" with display text "Cecilia Phalen" to linking "Cecilia Phalen" directly, and the children field changed from "Audrey Abbott" to "1 (adopted)." An archive URL and related parameters were added to the term_end3 reference for his Supreme Court tenure.
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The infobox was updated with a newer photo (2024 replacing 2015), the child field changed from "1" to "Audrey Abbott", the residence field lost the pipe-linked display text, and "Associate Justice" was changed to "Justice" for the Texas Supreme Court role. In the opening paragraph, a pronunciation guide was added, the description changed from "businessman, politician, attorney, and former jurist" to "politician, attorney, and jurist," and a new claim was added that Abbott is "the longest-serving incumbent governor" in some context (the sentence appears cut off in the diff). The short description changed from "48th governor of Texas" to "American attorney and politician (born 1957)," and a sentence about Abbott being paralyzed and using a wheelchair was removed from the introductory paragraph.
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The infobox was updated in several small ways: "Chairman" was changed to "Chair" for the Republican Governors Association role, a term end date of "December 9, 2020" and a successor of "Doug Ducey" were added for that position, the birth place was changed from "[[Wichita Falls, Texas|Wichita Falls]], [[Texas]], U.S." to "[[Wichita Falls, Texas]], U.S.", and "accessdate" was updated to "access-date" in a reference. The appointer field for the Supreme Court of Texas position ("[[George W. Bush]]") was removed, and "Jack English Hightower|Jack Hightower" was shortened to "Jack Hightower" in the predecessor field. The short description was changed from "48th Governor of Texas" to "48th governor of Texas" (lowercase "g"), and the "Use mdy dates" template date was updated from "June 2019" to "July 2021."
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The infobox was updated to add a new office entry for Chair of the Republican Governors Association (with term start of November 21, 2019 and predecessor Pete Ricketts), and the Supreme Court of Texas term start date was changed from 1995 to January 2, 1996, with a specific end date of June 6, 2001 added along with a reference citation. Several infobox formatting details changed, including the image filename (from "Greg Abbott by Gage Skidmore.jpg" to "Greg Abbott 2015.jpg"), the signature filename (from "AbbottSignature.jpg" to "Greg Abbott Signature.svg"), the spouse field was updated to use a marriage template linking to "Cecilia Abbott," and the date metadata was changed from December 2015 to June 2019. The party field was expanded from "Republican Party (United States)" to "Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party."
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A new infobox field for "lieutenant" was added, specifying that the current lieutenant governor is Dan Patrick. The sentence mentioning Abbott's service as the 50th Attorney General of Texas was rewritten to add the information that he was the second Republican to hold that office since Reconstruction. The paragraph about Abbott's early life was added, including details about his parents and his English descent.