Sen. Ted Cruz: A Timeline
Sen. Ted Cruz: A Timeline
| July 31 - Defeats Lt. Gov. Dewhurst
in the GOP primary runoff 56.8% to 43.2%. Aug. 29 - Primetime at
RNC. Nov. 6 - Elected to Senate def. Paul Sadler, 56.6%-40.5%. |
Sept. 24-25 - Speaks for 21 hours
and 19 minutes on the Senate floor in opposition to ObamaCare. |
Jan. 20 - Age on
Inauguration Day 46 years 1 month old. |
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| Domestic policy advisor at
Bush-Cheney 2000, July 1999-Nov. 2000. Nov.-Dec. - Florida
Recount Team for the Bush-Cheney campaign. |
Assoc. Deputy AG at the U.S. DOJ,
Jan.-June 2001. May 27 - Marries Heidi Suzanne Nelson.* Director, Office of Policy Planning at the FTC, July 2001-Jan. 2003. |
Solicitor General of Texas, Jan.
2003-May 2008 (appointed by Texas AG Greg Abbott). Adjunct prof. of law at Univ. of Texas, Aug. 2004-May 2009. |
In 5-plus years... | ...argues before the
U.S. Supreme Court 8 times... |
...and works on 70 briefs for the
U.S. Supreme Court... |
From May 2008 - Partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Houston, leading the U.S. Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation practice. | Starts campaign for
Texas AG but ends it when AG Abbott decides to seek another term. |
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| A.B. in public policy from Princeton
University, cum laude. |
J.D.
from
Harvard
University,
magna
cum
laude. Law clerk to Judge J. Michael Luttig, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1995-96. |
Law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Willam Rehnquist, 1996-97. |
Associate at Cooper, Carvin &
Rosenthan, Aug. 1997-June 1999. |
Domestic policy
advisor at Bush-Cheney 2000, July 1999-Nov. 2000. |
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| Graduates from Second Baptist High
School in Houston, valedictorian. Starts at Princeton University. |
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| Born Dec. 22, 1970 in Calgary,
Alberta. Father Rafael Cruz, geophysical consultant (came to
Texas from Cuba in 1957). and mother Eleanor Darragh. |
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Cruz' parents return to Houston. |
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