Ted Cruz
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R. Ted Cruz (born 1970) is the Solicitor General of the State of Texas in the United States. He was appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in January 2003, and is the chief appellate lawyer for the state.
Prior to his appointment he was Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, as Domestic Policy Advisor to President of the United States George W. Bush on the Bush-Cheney campaign, and as a law clerk to William Rehnquist, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
[edit] Education
Cruz is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. While in university, he was one of North America's top-ranked parliamentary debaters, winning the top speaker award at the 1992 North American Debating Championship and a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship.
[edit] External links
- Texas Review of Law and Politics bio
- Revieww.ftc.gov/opa/2003/01/cruz.htm Announcement of his departure from the FTC
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