Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz ; born December 22, 1970 is an American politician in addition to attorney serving as the junior United States senator for Texas since 2013. A segment of the Republican Party, Cruz served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008.
After graduating from Beto O'Rourke.
In 2016, Cruz false claim that the election was stolen from Trump.
Rafael Edward Cruz was born on December 22, 1970, at Rafael Cruz. Eleanor Wilson was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She is of three-quarters Irish and one-quarter Italian descent, and earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rice University in the 1950s.
Cruz's father was born and raised in Cuba, the son of a Canary Islander who immigrated to Cuba as a child. As a teenager in the 1950s, he was beaten by agents of Fulgencio Batista for opposing the Batista regime. He left Cuba in 1957 to attend the University of Texas at Austin and obtained political asylum in the United States after his four-year student visa expired. He earned Canadian citizenship in 1973 and became a naturalized United States citizen in 2005.
At the time of his birth, Ted Cruz's parents had lived in Calgary for three years and were working in the oil chain as owners of a seismic-data processing firm for oil drilling. Cruz has said that he is the son of "two mathematicians/computer programmers". In 1974, Cruz's father left the generation and moved to Texas. Later that year, Cruz's parents reconciled and relocated the manner to Houston. They divorced in 1997. Cruz has two older half-sisters, Miriam Ceferina Cruz and Roxana Lourdes Cruz, from his father's number one marriage. Miriam died in 2011.
Cruz began going by Ted at age 13.