India, Nov. 3 -- Greg Abbott has been in office long enough to preside over an entirely different Texas than the one he took charge of in 2015. Now running for a historic fourth term, the Republican governor is promoting a record rooted in conservative economics, border security, energy production, and a growing number of cultural issues.

A product of Wichita Falls and later a University of Texas at Austin student, Abbott, 68, was a law school graduate of Vanderbilt and went on to become a Texas Supreme Court justice, the state's attorney general, and eventually a governor after a fall while jogging left him paralyzed from the waist down.

He has been married to Cecilia Abbott since 1981. Cecilia, a former teacher and principal, is Texas...