
Congress, and he defended the constitutionality of a public monument that featured the Ten Commandments. During his five-year tenure as solicitor general, he successfully argued that international treaties are not binding on states until enacted by the U.S. Cruz, a strict constructionist, believed that judicial interpretation of the Constitution must be confined to a more or less literal reading of the text. He argued before the Supreme Court nine times and earned a reputation as a fiercely effective litigator. In 2003 Cruz was appointed solicitor general of Texas, becoming, at age 32, the youngest person to hold the post in the United States. Cruz then worked in the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission. Gore, which resulted in Bush’s election to the presidency. He served on Bush’s legal team before the Supreme Court in Bush v. Bush’s presidential campaign, advising the candidate on matters of law and public policy. In 1999, having become more active in Republican Party politics, Cruz went to work on George W. After entering private legal practice in 1997, he represented Congressman John Boehner in a lawsuit and did preliminary work for the Republican-led impeachment proceedings against Pres. Court of Appeals (1995) and then for William Rehnquist (1996–97), chief justice of the U.S. He then enrolled at Harvard Law School, and he graduated in 1995.Ĭruz subsequently clerked at the Fourth Circuit U.S. Cruz later attended Princeton University (B.A., 1992), where he studied public policy and joined a debate team, winning the top award in a national debating championship during his senior year. The family moved to Houston, Texas, in 1974, where he graduated from Second Baptist School and was raised a Southern Baptist. Because he was born to an American mother in Canada, Cruz became a dual U.S.–Canadian citizen. When he was born in 1970, the family was living in Alberta, Canada, where his parents worked in the oil industry. Ted’s mother, Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson, was a native of Delaware. His father, Rafael Bienvenido Cruz, was born in Cuba but fled to the United States in 1957 after being imprisoned by the Fulgencio Batista regime. He sought the Republican Party nomination for president in 2016. Senate in 2012 and began his first term representing Texas in 2013. Ted Cruz, byname of Rafael Edward Cruz, (born December 22, 1970, Calgary, Alberta, Canada), American politician who was elected to the U.S.

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