TED CRUZ, OTRO CUBANOAMERICANO AL SENADO

Ted Cruz,
¿otro cubanoamericano al Senado?

 Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz (born December 22, 1970) is an American politician who was Solicitor General  of the E.S. Estate  of Texas from 2003 to May 2008.  He was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the United States, and had the longest tenure in the post thus far in Texas history.

He is currently a partner at the law firm Mongan, Lrwis & Bockius,  where he leads the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.

Cruz won the 2012 Republican nomination for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison. He defeated Lt. Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican primary runoff by 57% to 43% on July 31, 2012.

Early life and education

Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where his parents, Eleanor Darragh and Rafael Cruz, were working in the petroleum business. His father was a Cuban    immigrant to the U.S. His mother was American, and was raised in Delaware, in a family of Irish and Italian descent.  His father was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba until he escaped to freedom in Texas in 1957.

Cruz graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston, and earned his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University  and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.   

 He was an editor of the harvard Law Review, an executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy,  and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.  While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society´s Debate Panelas one of North America's top-ranked parliamentary debaters, winning the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North America´s top ranked parliamentary debaters.  In 1992, he was named Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).  

Legal career

 Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States and  has authored more than 80 briefs before the US Supreme Court and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.

In the landmark case of District of Columbia Vs Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of thirty-one states in defense of the principle that the Second Amendment to the Unite Estates Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.   Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to  

 Personal life

Cruz was born and spent the first four years of his life in Calgary before his parents returned to Houston. His father was jailed and tortured by the Batista   regime and fought for Fidel Castro   in the Cuban revolution  but "didn't know Castro was a Communist" and later became a staunch critic of Castro when "the rebel leader took control and began seizing private property and suppressing dissent"  He moved to Austin, Texas, in 1957 to study at the University of Texas.  

He spoke no English and had $100 sewn into his underwear. The elder Cruz worked his way through school as a dishwasher making 50 cents an hour. Cruz’s mother, who was from Houston, was the first person in her family ever to go to college. She earned a math degree at Rice University   in the 1950s, working summers at Foley’s and Shell. "I'm Cuban, Irish, and Italian, and yet somehow I ended up Southern Baptist.

Cruz and his wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, have two daughters, Caroline Camille and Catherine Christiane. Cruz met his wife while working on the George W. Bush    presidential campaign of 2000. Cruz's wife is currently Region Head for the Southwest Region in the Investment Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co.,   and previously worked in the White House for Condoleezza Rice,  and in New York as an investment banker.

Fuente: Wikipedia.org