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Ted Cruz

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Ted Cruz is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Ted Cruz · Ted Kruz · Teds Kruss · Τεντ Κρουζ · Тед Круз · 10 more...				[sources]
Alias	Cruz, Ted · Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz · Rafael Edward Cruz · Rafaels Edvards Kruss · Raphael Eduardus Cruz · 23 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	ラファエル・エドワード・クルーズ				[sources]
Birth date	1970-12-22				[sources]
Place of birth	Foothills Medical Centre				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	Canada · United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Edward · Rafael · Ted				[sources]
Last name	Cruz				[sources]
Phone	+12022245922				[sources]
Political association	Republican Party				[sources]
Title	Mr.				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · facebook.com · twitter.com · twitter.com · www.cruz.senate.gov · 1 more...				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q2036942				[sources]
Position	Associate Deputy Attorney General · Senate (member, 2013-2015) · Senate (member, 2015-2017) · Senate (member, 2017-2019) · Senate (member, 2019-) · 10 more...				[sources]
Education	Awty International School · Bachelor of Arts · Harvard Law School (-1995) · Juris Doctor · Princeton School of Public and International Affairs · 2 more...				[sources]
Religion	Southern Baptist Convention				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

US Senator

— China Sanctions Research non-official source, 2024-05-22

American politician (born 1970)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-01-26

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
China	Ministry of Foreign Affairs		2020-07-13	-

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Rafael Bienvenido Cruz Close Associate	father	-	-
Heidi Cruz Politician	spouse	2001-05-27	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States senator	2015-01-06	2017-01-03
United States senator	2019-01-03

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Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

China Sanctions Research217

Individuals and organisations targeted by the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, Counter-Measures List and the Unreliable Entities List (UEL).

China · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,936

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Iran Sanctions List405

Individuals and entities in the sanctions list of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Iran · MFA

US Members of the Congress1,319

Current and recent members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives

United States · Congress

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,411

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata355,710

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,358

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-d76fad8c7835686894770ea3cae8be734478225a · ir-san-a1e82462c112068e04364a39e28e4731ac33f3f6 · evpo-c026fc33-dd60-4063-aa63-6c990fe7d88e

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