Ted Cruz Is No Longer A Canadian

Almost a year after he said he would do it, Sen. Ted Cruz has finally renounced his Canadian citizenship.

Spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said Cruz's action became official May 14 and that Texas' junior senator received written confirmation at his home in Houston on Tuesday. She said the tea-party-backed Republican "is pleased to have the process finalized." "Being a U.S. Senator representing Texas, it makes sense he should be only an American citizen," Frazier said in an email. Cruz, 43, was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1970, while his parents were working in the oil business there. His mother, Eleanor, is from Delaware, while his father, Rafael, is a Cuban who didn't become a U.S. citizen until 2005. Amid questions last August about his eligibility to be president should he decide to run, Cruz released his birth certificate to the Dallas Morning News — and said then that he was surprised to learn he was a dual Canadian-U.S. citizen.