Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz grew up in Texas. His Senate biography says he earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton and his law degree from Harvard Law School, clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist and then worked in private practice. It says he joined George W. Bush's presidential campaign as a domestic policy advisor in 1999.

According to the same biography, Cruz worked at the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission during the Bush administration and then became Solicitor General of Texas, arguing eight cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in that role. He afterward returned to private practice, where he argued a ninth case before the court.

Cruz took his seat in the Senate on January 3, 2013. He is chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and also serves on the Foreign Relations, Rules and Administration, and Judiciary committees.