Who is Rick Perry?
James Richard Perry, who was born into a family of cotton farmers in Haskell, Texas, went on to serve as the 47th Governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015. From 2017 to 2019, he also served as the US Secretary of Energy under the Trump regime.
In his youth, Perry graduated from Texas A&M University in 1972 and went on to serve in the US Air Force where he achieved the Captain rank. He left the Air Force in 1977 and prepared to join politics. Originally joining the Democratic Party, he served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives till 1991. Meanwhile, he switched to the opposition Republican Party and got elected as the Agriculture Commissioner of the state. He was also Texas s first Republican Lieutenant Governor since the Reconstruction era.