Rafael Edward Cruz, better known by his stage name Ted Cruz, is an American politician and attorney who has served as the junior United States senator for the state of Texas since 2013. Cruz was the Republican candidate for Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 until 2008.

Cruz went into politics after graduating from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. Before serving as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008, he worked as a policy advisor in the George W. Bush administration. Cruz was elected to the United States Senate in 2012, making him the first Hispanic-American senator from Texas.

Ted Cruz was elected to the United States Senate from Texas in 2012, making him the first Hispanic-American senator from the state. He was a key figure in the 2013 federal government shutdown in the United States, where he attempted to push Congress and President Barack Obama to defund the Affordable Care Act.

Cruz finished second in the Republican primary behind Donald Trump in 2016. Eleanor Wilson, his mother, graduated from Rice University with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in the 1950s.

From his father’s first marriage, he has two older half-sisters, Miriam Ceferina Cruz and Roxana Lourdes Cruz. Cruz’s father left the family and migrated to Texas in 1974; his parents reconciled later that year and relocated the family to Houston.

How old is Ted Cruz?

Rafael Edward Cruz was born to Eleanor Elizabeth (née Darragh) Wilson and Rafael Cruz on December 22, 1970, at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In December 2022, he will turn 50 years old.