Ted Cruz 10/26/15
Rafael Edward Cruz nicknamed Ted Cruz was born on December 22, 1970 in Calgary, Alberta. His parents Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz were working in the oil business as owners of a seismic-data processing firm for oil drilling. His father was born in Cuba, and his mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. His father left Cuba in 1957 to attend the University of Texas at Austin, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2005.
His mother earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rice University in the 1950s. When Cruz was a child, his mother told him that she would have to make an affirmative act to claim Canadian citizenship for him. In August 2013, after the Dallas Morning News pointed out that Cruz had dual Canadian-American citizenship, he applied to formally renounce his Canadian citizenship and ceased being a citizen of Canada on May 14, 2014. Cruz's parents split up for a time, but they reunited after Cruz developed a new found interest in religion.
Cruz lives in a condominium in downtown Houston with his family. He was a domestic policy adviser for George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign. He began working as the solicitor general of the state of Texas in 2003, and he argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court during his time in that office, which ended in 2008. Cruz was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, after he rallied conservative and tea party support in Texas, and has since been one of the Senate's most vocal critics of Obamacare.
On March 23 he became the first Republican candidate to announce a campaign for the presidency. Ted’s election was described by the Washington Post as “the biggest upset of 2012 . . . a true grassroots victory against very long odds.”
Rafael Edward Cruz nicknamed Ted Cruz was born on December 22, 1970 in Calgary, Alberta. His parents Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz were working in the oil business as owners of a seismic-data processing firm for oil drilling. His father was born in Cuba, and his mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. His father left Cuba in 1957 to attend the University of Texas at Austin, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2005.
His mother earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rice University in the 1950s. When Cruz was a child, his mother told him that she would have to make an affirmative act to claim Canadian citizenship for him. In August 2013, after the Dallas Morning News pointed out that Cruz had dual Canadian-American citizenship, he applied to formally renounce his Canadian citizenship and ceased being a citizen of Canada on May 14, 2014. Cruz's parents split up for a time, but they reunited after Cruz developed a new found interest in religion.
Cruz lives in a condominium in downtown Houston with his family. He was a domestic policy adviser for George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign. He began working as the solicitor general of the state of Texas in 2003, and he argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court during his time in that office, which ended in 2008. Cruz was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, after he rallied conservative and tea party support in Texas, and has since been one of the Senate's most vocal critics of Obamacare.
On March 23 he became the first Republican candidate to announce a campaign for the presidency. Ted’s election was described by the Washington Post as “the biggest upset of 2012 . . . a true grassroots victory against very long odds.”