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Jan 15, 2016 · Eleanor Wilson left England sometime after the death of Michael and returned to the United States, where she met Rafael Cruz, whom she married in 1969. Ted Cruz was born in Calgary,...
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Eleanor Wilson left England sometime after the death of Michael and returned to the United States, where she met Rafael Cruz, whom she married in 1969. Ted Cruz was born in Calgary,...
Apr 1, 2015 · Both of Cruz’s parents, Rafael Cruz and Eleanor Darragh Wilson, were married to others before they married in 1969. Cruz, 44, had two half-sisters from his father’s earlier marriage. One, Miriam...
- He Protested For Castro Before Leaving Cuba
- He Met Ted’s Mother in Canada, Where He Worked in Oil & Gas
- He Settled in Texas & Became A Preacher
- He Advocated The End of Separation of Church & State
- He Believes His Son Ted Has A ‘Special Calling’
As a teenager under the brutal Batista regime, Rafael Cruz resented the regime and often clashed with its officials. As he describes in the video above, he gravitated toward Fidel Castro’s message and supported the future leader of Cuba, getting arrested and beaten for his troubles. Though some of his claims are disputed by contemporaries, it is kn...
Rafael Cruz arrived in Austin, Texas “with nothing but the clothes on his back and one hundred dollars sewn into his underwear.” He took a $0.50-per-hour job as a dishwasher to help pay for his studies in oil and gas exploration at the University of Texas. After graduation, he left the US in the wake of the 1970s oil boom in Alberta, Canada, where ...
Despite later being described as a competent oilman, R.B. Cruz and Associates folded in 1974 and the family returned to Texas. Although raised a Roman Catholic, Cruz began attending a Bible study with a born-again coworker, and later described the meetings in his book as transformative: Cruz converted to born-again evangelicalism and later became t...
In his book A Time for Action: Empowering the Faithful to Reclaim America, Cruz elaborated on his nonbelief in the separation of church and state and the proper role of believers in government: Cruz is committed to a strain of evangelical theology known as Dominionism, which calls on Christians to “restore” the government to its believed Christian ...
The younger Cruz unsurprisingly takes up a large part of Rafael Cruz’s book, with a description of how he helped train Ted toward a political life: However, at the end of the widely circulated video above, Cruz seems to doubt that special calling was politics. When asked whether his then-teenaged son would “rule the world one day,” the elder Cruz r...
Ted Cruz married Heidi Nelson in 2001. His wife previously worked in the White House for Condoleezza Rice and in New York as an investment banker. The couple has two daughters.
Apr 1, 2015 · Both of Cruz’s parents, Rafael Cruz and Eleanor Darragh Wilson, were married to others before they married in 1969. Cruz, 44, had two half-sisters from his father’s earlier marriage. One, Miriam...
Apr 18, 2015 · His mother, Eleanor, was born in the United States and met his father when she was a student at Rice University. ... Best Known For: Ted Cruz took office as the junior U.S. senator for Texas in ...
