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'''James Richard "Rick" Perry''' (born March 4, 1950) was the 14th [[United States Secretary of Energy]], serving under Republican President [[Donald Trump]]. Previously, he served under a variety of positions, most notably as the [[Republican Party|Republican]] Governor of [[Texas]] from December 21, 2000, when he succeeded then-Governor [[George W. Bush]], until January 20, 2015. He was elected to full four-year terms in 2002, 2006 and 2010, when he easily won an unprecedented third full term after defeating—by a wide margin [[Unitedk State United States Senator]] [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]] in the GOP primary in March and then the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] former [[mayor]] of [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Bill White, in the general election. When he stepped down in 2014, Perry had the longest tenure of any Texas Governor.
==Career==