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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, Alberta, in 1970.
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, Alberta, in 1970.
- 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...
Jan 15, 2016 · On Ted Cruz’s Canadian birth certificate, his mother is listed as Eleanor Darragh Wilson, using the last name of her first husband, Alan Wilson. The Fort Worth native and long-time resident of ...
Apr 21, 2016 · Eleanor Darragh Cruz was first married to Alan Wilson of Ft. Worth, TX in 1956. Eleanor was born in Delaware and graduated from Rice University in Houston, where the two met. She was the “first in her family” of 17 siblings to attend college, according to The Dallas Morning News.
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In his late twenties, Cruz moved to New Orleans. In 1969 at age 30, during his employment at his new oil company job, he met Wilmington, Delaware, native and divorcée, Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson (born November 23, 1934, as Eleanor Darragh). Eleanor's first marriage, at age 21, was to Alan Wilson, a mathematician, in 1956.
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 ...
