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Ben Carson

November 27, 2023

Not to be confused with Ken Carson.

Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and politician who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, he was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries.[2][3][4] Carson is one of the most prominent Black conservatives in America.[5]

Ben Carson
17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
In office
March 2, 2017 – January 20, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
DeputyPam Patenaude
Brian D. Montgomery
Preceded byJulian Castro
Succeeded byMarcia Fudge
Personal details
Born
Benjamin Solomon Carson

(1951-09-18) September 18, 1951 (age 72)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Political partyRepublican (1981–1999, after 2014)[1]
Other political
affiliations		Democratic (before 1981)
Independent (1999–2014)
Spouse
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(m. 1975)​
Children3
Residence(s)Vienna, Virginia, U.S.
Alma materYale University (BA)
University of Michigan (MD)
Occupation
  • Neurosurgeon
  • politician
  • academic
  • author
AwardsPresidential Medal of Freedom (2008)
Signature
Scientific career
FieldsNeurosurgery
Pediatric neurosurgery
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
National Academy of Medicine

Carson became the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in 1984 at age 33, then the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States.[6] In 1987, he gained significant fame after leading a team of surgeons in the first known separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head. Although the surgery was a success, the twins continued to experience neurological and medical complications.[7] His additional accomplishments include performing the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb, developing new methods to treat brain-stem tumors, and revitalizing hemispherectomy techniques for controlling seizures.[8][9][6][10] He wrote over 100 neurosurgical publications. He retired from medicine in 2013; at the time, he was professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.[11]

Carson gained national fame among political conservatives after delivering a speech at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast which was perceived as critical of the policies of President Barack Obama.[12] Following widespread speculation of a presidential run, Carson officially announced his campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination for President in May 2015. Carson performed strongly in early polls, leading to his being considered a frontrunner for the nomination during the fall of 2015.[13] He withdrew from the race after Super Tuesday, following a string of disappointing primary results, and endorsed Donald Trump.[14] Following Trump's victory, Trump nominated Carson as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, being confirmed by the United States Senate in a 58–41 vote on March 2, 2017.[15]

Carson has received numerous honors for his neurosurgery work, including more than 60 honorary doctorate degrees and numerous national merit citations.[16] In 2001, he was named by CNN and Time magazine as one of the nation's 20 foremost physicians and scientists and was selected by the Library of Congress as one of 89 "Living Legends" on its 200th anniversary.[9] In 2008, Carson was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.[17] In 2010, he was elected into the National Academy of Medicine.[18] He was the subject of the 2009 TV film Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, wherein he was portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. Carson has also written or co-written six bestselling books.

Early life and education edit

Carson's parents were Robert Solomon Carson Jr. (1914–1992), a World War II U.S. Army veteran, and Sonya Carson (née Copeland, 1928–2017).[19] Both from large families in rural Georgia, Carson's parents met and married while living in rural Tennessee, when his mother was 13 and his father 28. After Robert's completion of military service, they moved from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Detroit, Michigan,[20][21] where they lived in a large house in the Indian Village neighborhood.[22] Carson's father, a Baptist minister, worked in a Cadillac automobile plant. His older brother, Curtis, was born in 1949, when his mother was 20.[23] In 1950, Carson's parents purchased a new 733-square foot single-family detached home on Deacon Street in the Boynton neighborhood of southwest Detroit,[24][25][26] where Carson was born on September 18, 1951.

Carson's Detroit Public Schools education began in 1956 with kindergarten at the Fisher School and continued through first, second, and the first half of third grade, during which time he was an average student.[27][28] At the age of five, his mother learned that his father had a prior family and had not divorced his first wife.[29] In 1959, at the age of eight, his parents separated and he moved with his mother and brother to live for two years with his mother's Seventh-day Adventist older sister and her sister's husband in multi-family dwellings in the Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston.[29][30] In Boston, Carson's mother attempted suicide, had several psychiatric hospitalizations for depression, and for the first time began working outside the home as a domestic worker,[29] while Carson and his brother attended a two-classroom school at the Berea Seventh-day Adventist church where two teachers taught eight grades, and the vast majority of time was spent singing songs and playing games.[27]

In 1961, at the age of 10, he moved with his mother and brother back to southwest Detroit, where they lived in a multi-family dwelling in a primarily white neighborhood, (Springwells Village), across the railroad tracks from the Delray neighborhood, while renting out their house on Deacon Street, which his mother received in a divorce settlement.[24][29][31] When they returned to Detroit public schools, Carson and his brother's academic performance initially lagged far behind their new classmates, having, according to Carson, "essentially lost a year of school" by attending the small Seventh-day Adventist parochial school in Boston,[27][29][32] but they both improved when their mother limited their time watching television and required them to read and write book reports on two library books per week.[33] Carson attended the predominantly white Higgins Elementary School for fifth and sixth grades and the predominantly white Wilson Junior High School for seventh and the first half of eighth grade.[28][34] In 1965, at the age of 13, he moved with his mother and brother back to their house on Deacon Street.[35] He attended the predominantly black Hunter Junior High School for the second half of eighth grade.[28][35] At the age of eight, Carson dreamt of becoming a missionary doctor, but five years later he aspired to the lucrative lifestyles of psychiatrists portrayed on television, and his brother bought him a subscription to Psychology Today for his 13th birthday.[36][37]

High school edit

By grade 9, the family's financial situation had improved, his mother surprising neighbors by paying cash to buy a new Chrysler car,[38] and the only government assistance they still relied on was food stamps.[39] Carson attended the predominantly black Southwestern High School for grades nine through twelve, graduating third in his class academically.[28][40][41] In high school, he played the euphonium in band and participated in forensics (public speaking),[42] chess club,[43][44] and the U.S. Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program where he reached its highest rank—cadet colonel.[40] Carson served as a laboratory assistant in the high school's biology, chemistry, and physics school laboratories beginning in grades 10, 11, and 12, respectively,[45] and worked as a biology laboratory assistant at Wayne State University the summer between grade 11 and 12.[46]

In his book Gifted Hands, Carson relates that as a youth, he had a violent temper. "As a teenager, I would go after people with rocks, and bricks, and baseball bats, and hammers", Carson told NBC's Meet the Press in October 2015.[47] He said he once tried to hit his mother on the head with a hammer over a clothing dispute, while in the ninth grade he tried to stab a friend who had changed the radio station. Fortunately, the blade broke in his friend's belt buckle.[48][49][50] Carson said the intended victim, whose identity he wants to protect, was a classmate, a friend, or a close relative.[51][52] After this incident, Carson said he began reading the Book of Proverbs and applying verses on anger. As a result, he states he "never had another problem with temper".[53][54][55] In his various books and at campaign events, he repeated these stories and said he once attacked a schoolmate with a combination lock. Nine friends, classmates, and neighbors who grew up with him told CNN in 2015 they did not remember the anger or violence he has described.[56] In response, Carson posted on Facebook a 1997 Parade magazine issue, in which his mother verified the stabbing incident. He then questioned the extent of the effort CNN had exerted in the investigation.[51]

Carson has said that he protected white students in a biology lab after a race riot broke out at his high school in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. The Wall Street Journal confirmed the riot but could not find anyone who remembered Carson sheltering white students.[57][58]

College edit

Carson's SAT college admission test scores ranked him somewhere in the low 90th percentile.[59][41][60][61] He wanted to attend college farther away than his brother who was at the University of Michigan.[62] Carson says he narrowed his college choices to Harvard or Yale but could only afford the $10 application fee to apply for only one of them.[41][63] He said he decided to apply to Yale after seeing a team from Yale defeat a team from Harvard on the G.E. College Bowl television show.[64][65][66][67][68][69] Carson was accepted by Yale and offered a full scholarship covering tuition, room and board.[70][71] In 1973, Carson graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Yale "with a fairly respectable grade point average although far from the top of the class".[72][73]

Carson does not say in his books whether he received a college student deferment during the Vietnam War. He does say that his older brother, then a student at the University of Michigan, received a low number (26) in the first draft lottery in 1969 and was able to enlist in the Navy for four years instead of being drafted,[74] whereas he received a high number (333) in the second draft lottery in 1970.[75] Carson said he would have readily accepted his responsibility to fight had he been drafted,[75] but he "identified strongly with the anti-war protesters and the revolutionaries" and enthusiastically voted for anti-war Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern in 1972.[76] In his book, America the Beautiful (2012), Carson said: "The Vietnam War was, in retrospect, not a noble conflict. It brought shame to our nation because of both the outcome and the cause."[77]

In the summers following his high school graduation until his second year in medical school, Carson worked at a variety of jobs: as a clerk in the payroll office of Ford Motor Company, supervisor of a six-person crew picking up trash along the highway under a federal jobs program for inner-city students, a clerk in the mailroom of Young & Rubicam Advertising, assembling fender parts and inspecting back window louvers on the assembly line at Chrysler, a crane operator at Sennett Steel, and finally a radiology technician taking X-rays.[78] At Yale, Carson had a part-time job on campus as a student police aide.[79]

In his autobiography, Carson said he had been offered a scholarship to West Point. Politico reported that West Point has no record of his ever seeking admission. The academy does not award scholarships to anyone;[80] cadets receive a free education and room and board in exchange for a commitment to serve in the military for at least five years after graduation.[80][Note 1] Carson also said the University of Michigan had offered him a scholarship. His staff later said the described scenario was similar to that of West Point, as he never actually applied for entry to the University of Michigan. [Note 2][81]

In his autobiography, Gifted Hands, Carson recounted that exams for a Yale psychology course he took his junior year, "Perceptions 301", were inexplicably burned, forcing students to retake the exam. Carson said other students walked out in protest when they discovered the retest was significantly harder than the original examination, but that he alone finished the test. On doing so, Carson said he was congratulated by the course instructor, who told him the retest was a hoax intended to find "the most honest student in the class". Carson said the professor awarded him $10 and that a photographer for the Yale Daily News was present to take his picture, which appeared in the student newspaper with a story about the experiment. Doubts were raised about this story in 2015 during Carson's presidential campaign. The Wall Street Journal attempted to verify Carson's account, reporting that Yale undergraduate courses were identified with only two digits in the early 1970s, that Yale had offered no course called "Perceptions 301" at the time, and that Carson's photo had never appeared in the Yale Daily News.[57] Carson, while acknowledging the class number was not correct, said: "You know, when you write a book with a co-writer and you say that there was a class, a lot of [the] time they'll put a number or something just to give it more meat. You know, obviously, decades later, I'm not going to remember the course number."[82]

Medical school edit

Carson entered the University of Michigan Medical School in 1973, and at first he struggled academically, doing so poorly on his first set of comprehensive exams that his faculty adviser recommended he drop out of medical school or take a reduced academic load and take longer to finish.[83][84] He continued with a regular academic load, and his grades improved to average in his first year of medical school. By his second year of medical school, Carson began to excel academically by seldom attending lectures and instead studying textbooks and lecture notes from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.[85] Carson graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School with an M.D. degree in 1977, and he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.[73]

Carson was then accepted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine neurosurgery program, where he served one year as a surgical intern and five years as a neurosurgery resident, completing the final year as chief resident in 1983.[86] He then spent one year (1983–1984) as a Senior Registrar in neurosurgery at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Nedlands, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.[87]

Medical career edit

Upon returning to Johns Hopkins in 1984, Carson was appointed the university's director of pediatric neurosurgery.[88] As a surgeon, he specialized in traumatic brain injuries, brain and spinal cord tumors, achondroplasia, neurological and congenital disorders, craniosynostosis, epilepsy, and trigeminal neuralgia.[89]

While at Johns Hopkins, Carson figured in the revival of the hemispherectomy, a drastic surgical procedure in which part or all of one hemisphere of the brain is removed to control severe pediatric epilepsy. Encouraged by John M. Freeman,[90] he refined the procedure in the 1980s and performed it many times.[91][92]

In 1987, Carson was the lead neurosurgeon of a 70-member surgical team that separated conjoined twins Patrick and Benjamin Binder, who had been joined at the back of the head (craniopagus twins). The separation surgery held promise in part because the twin boys had separate brains.[93] The Johns Hopkins Children's Center surgical team rehearsed the surgery for weeks, practicing on two dolls secured together by Velcro.[93] Although there were few follow-up stories following the Binder twins' return to Germany seven months after the operation,[93] both twins were reportedly "far from normal" two years after the procedure, with one in a vegetative state.[93][94][95][96] Neither twin was ever able to talk or care for himself, and both eventually became institutionalized wards of the state.[93] Patrick Binder died sometime during the last decade, according to his uncle, who was located by The Washington Post in 2015.[93] The Binder surgery served as a blueprint for similar twin separations, a procedure that was refined in subsequent decades.[93] Carson participated in four subsequent high-risk conjoined-twin separations, including a 1997 operation on craniopagus Zambian twins Joseph and Luka Banda, which resulted in a normal neurological outcome.[93] Two sets of twins died, including Iranian twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani. Another separation resulted in the death of one twin and the survival of the other, who is legally blind and struggles to walk.[97]

According to The Washington Post, the Binder surgery "launched the stardom" of Carson, who "walked out of the operating room that day into a spotlight that has never dimmed", beginning with a press conference that was covered worldwide and created name recognition leading to publishing deals and a motivational speaking career.[93] On the condition the film would have its premiere in Baltimore,[93] Carson agreed to a cameo appearance as "head surgeon" in the 2003 Farrelly brothers' comedy Stuck on You, starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as conjoined twins who, unhappy after their surgical separation, continue life attached to each other by Velcro.[93][98]

In March 2013, Carson announced he would retire as a surgeon, saying he would "much rather quit when I'm at the top of my game".[99] His retirement became official on July 1, 2013.[100]

In 2021, Carson joined Galectin Therapeutics to assist with development of the company's galectin-3 inhibitor, belapectin, as a treatment for NASH cirrhosis and in combination with immunotherapy for the treatment of cancers.[101]

Articles, books, business relationships, media posts edit

 
Carson and President George W. Bush in 2008
 
Ben and Candy Carson with George and Laura Bush in 2008

Carson has written many articles in peer-reviewed journals[102] and six bestselling books[103] published by Zondervan, an international Christian media and publishing company. The first book was an autobiography published in 1992. Two others are about his personal philosophies of success and what he sees as the stabilizing influence of religion.[104][105]

According to CNN, Carson had an "extensive relationship" from 2004 to 2014 with Mannatech, a multi-level marketing company that produces dietary supplements made from substances such as aloe vera extract and larch-tree bark.[106][107][108] Carson gave four paid speeches at company events. He has denied being paid by Mannatech to do anything else, saying he has been a "prolific speaker" who has addressed many groups.[109] In a 2004 speech, he credited the company's products with the disappearance of his prostate cancer symptoms.[106][107] The nature of this relationship became an issue in 2015 during Carson's presidential campaign. Carson's relationship with Mannatech continued after the company paid $7 million in 2009 to settle a deceptive-marketing lawsuit in Texas over claims that its products could cure autism and cancer.[106][110][111] His most recent paid speech for the company was in 2013, for which he was paid $42,000. His image appeared on the corporation's website in 2014,[106] and in the same year, he praised their "glyconutrient" supplements in a PBS special that was subsequently featured on the site.[112]

Carson delivered the keynote address at a Mannatech distributor convention in 2011, during which he said the company had donated funds to help him obtain a coveted endowed-chair post at Johns Hopkins Medicine: "three years ago I had an endowed chair bestowed upon me and uh, it requires $2.5 million to do an endowed chair, and I'm proud to say that part of that $2.5 million came from Mannatech." In October 2015, Carson's campaign team said that "there was no contribution from Mannatech to Johns Hopkins" and that his statement had been "a legitimate mistake on his part. Confusion. He had been doing some fundraising for the hospital and some other chairs about that time, and he simply got things mixed up."[113]

During the CNBC GOP debate on October 28, 2015, Carson was asked about his relationship with Mannatech. He replied, "That's easy to answer. I didn't have any involvement with Mannatech. Total propaganda. I did a couple speeches for them. I did speeches for other people—they were paid speeches. It is absolutely absurd to say I had any kind of relation with them. Do I take the product? Yes. I think it is a good product."[114] Politifact rated Carson's denial of any involvement as "false", pointing to his paid speeches for Mannatech and his appearances in promotional videos in which he favorably reviewed its products, despite not being "an official spokesman or sales associate".[108] When the CNBC moderator commented that Carson was on Mannatech's website, Carson replied that he had not given his permission. Earlier, he had said he was unaware of the company's legal history.[115]

On November 3, 2015, Mannatech said on its website that for compliance with federal campaign finance regulations, the company had removed all references to Carson before he announced his bid for the presidency.[116]

In July 2013, Carson was hired by The Washington Times as a weekly opinion columnist.[117] In October 2013, Fox News hired Carson as a contributor to provide analysis and commentary across Fox News Channel's daytime and primetime programming, a relationship that lasted until the end of 2014.[118]

In 2014, some House Republicans (who later formed the House Freedom Caucus) approached Carson about the possibility of his standing for Speaker of the House in the event that the incumbent Speaker, John Boehner, had to step down because of intraparty disunion. Carson declined, citing preparations for his 2016 presidential campaign. Ultimately, Boehner resigned in October 2015, and Paul Ryan was elected as the new Speaker.[119]

In financial disclosure forms, Carson and his wife reported income of between $8.9 million and $27 million from January 2014 to May 3, 2015, when he announced his presidential campaign.[120] Over that period, Carson received over $4 million from 141 paid speeches, between $1.1 million and $6 million in book royalties, between $200,000 and $2 million as a contributor to The Washington Times and Fox News, and between $2 million and $10 million as a member of the boards of Kellogg Co. and Costco Wholesale Corp.[120] He resigned from Costco's board in mid-2015, after serving on it for more than 16 years.[121] Carson was chairman of the Baltimore-based biotechnology company Vaccinogen from August 2014[122] until the announcement of his US presidential bid in May 2015.[123] Carson had previously served on Vaccinogen's Medical Advisory Board.[124]

2016 presidential campaign edit

Main article: Ben Carson 2016 presidential campaign
 
Carson speaking at a campaign event in August 2015

Background and increasing political visibility edit

Carson, who had been registered as a Republican, changed his registration to independent in the 1990s after watching Republicans impeach President Clinton for perjury regarding an extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky. "I just saw so much hypocrisy in both parties", he said.[125] In February 2013, Carson said he was not a member of any political party.[126]

In his book America the Beautiful (2013), he wrote: "I believe it is a very good idea for physicians, scientists, engineers, and others trained to make decisions based on facts and empirical data to get involved in the political arena."[127][128]

Carson was the keynote speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 7, 2013.[129] The speech garnered Carson considerable attention because the event is normally apolitical in nature, and the speech was critical of the philosophy and policies of President Barack Obama, who was sitting 10 feet away.[130] About the speech, Carson said: "I don't think it was particularly political ... You know, I'm a physician."[131] Regarding the policies of President Obama, he said: "There are a number of policies that I don't believe lead to the growth of our nation and don't lead to the elevation of our nation. I don't want to sit here and say all of his policies are bad. What I would like to see more often in this nation is an open and intelligent conversation."[131]

Carson's sudden popularity among conservatives led to his being invited as a featured speaker at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). He tied for seventh place in the Washington Times/CPAC 2013 Straw Poll with 4% of the 3,000 ballots cast.[132][133] In the 2014 CPAC straw poll, he was in third place with 9% of the vote, behind senators Ted Cruz of Texas (with 11%) and Rand Paul of Kentucky (31%).[134] In the presidential straw poll at the 2013 Values Voter Summit, he and Rick Santorum polled 13%, with winner Ted Cruz polling 42%, and in 2014 he polled 20% to Cruz's winning 25%.[135][136]

On November 4, 2014, the day of the 2014 midterms, he rejoined the Republican Party, saying it was "truly a pragmatic move" because he was considering running for president in 2016.[125]

In January 2015, The Weekly Standard reported that the Draft Carson Committee had raised $13 million by the end of 2014, shortly after Carson performed well in a CNN/ORC poll of potential candidates in December 2014, coming second in two different versions. He polled 10% to Mitt Romney's 20%, but in the same poll with Romney removed from the list, Carson polled 11% to Jeb Bush's 14%.[137][138] The Wall Street Journal mentioned that the Draft Carson Committee had chairmen in all of Iowa's 99 counties, and that Carson had recently led two separate Public Policy polls for the state of Pennsylvania.[139][140]

Announcement of campaign edit

On May 2, 2015, Carson proclaimed that in two days he was going to make a major announcement on his decision on whether to enter the presidential race.[141] In an interview with Cincinnati station WKRC-TV on May 3, 2015, Carson accidentally confirmed his candidacy for president.[142] The interview was also broadcast live on WPEC.[143] The next day, May 4, 2015, at the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts in his home town of Detroit,[144] he officially announced his run for the Republican nomination in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The announcement speech was preceded by a choir singing "Lose Yourself" with Carson sitting in the audience. After the song, Carson took the stage and announced his candidacy alongside a speech on his rags to riches life story, at one point stating: "I remember when our favorite drug dealer was killed."[145]

Surge in polls edit

 
Carson at a rally in August 2015

In October 2015, the Super PAC supporting Carson, The 2016 Committee (formerly the Draft Carson Committee), announced it had received donations in mostly $100 increments from more than 200 small businesses around the country over the course of one week. Fox Business reported that "Carson's outsider status is growing his small business support base." Ben Walters, a fundraiser for The 2016 Committee, expressed optimism about Carson's small business support base: "It's unbelievable the diversity of businesses that we are bringing on. We are seeing everything from doctors' offices and folks in the healthcare profession to motorcycle repair shops and bed and breakfasts."[146]

In October, it was noted that Carson's "improbable" political career had surged in polls and fundraising, while he continued to participate in nationally televised Republican debates.[147][148]

Decline in polls edit

 
Carson and Sean Hannity in January 2016
 
Carson speaking before the Nevada caucuses in February 2016

The campaign brought considerable attention to Carson's past. CBS News described Carson's narrative of "overcoming impossible odds as a child growing up in an impoverished, single-parent household to reach international prominence as a pediatric neurosurgeon" as "a key part of his presidential campaign".[149] The Wall Street Journal said the narrative came under "the harsh scrutiny of presidential politics, where rivals and media hunt for embellishments and omissions that can hobble a campaign".[150] CNN characterized the core narrative as "acts of violence as an angry young man", followed by a spiritual epiphany that transformed Carson into the "composed figure" he now portrays.[56] Media challenges to a number of Carson's statements included allegations of discrepancies between documented facts and certain assertions in his autobiography Gifted Hands—allegations dismissed by Carson as a media "witch hunt".[80] In November 2015, the Detroit Free Press republished an article from 1988 "to try to bring some clarity to the claims currently being brought into question".[151]

In November 2015, Carson's campaign aired a 60-second TV advertisement in which excerpts from Carson's stump speech were intercut with a rap by an artist named Aspiring Mogul.[152] They spent $150,000 on the ads, which were aired in Atlanta, Detroit and Miami.[153] Carson defended the ad, saying "Well, there are people in the campaign who felt that was a good way to do things ... I support them in doing that, but I probably would have taken a little different approach."[152] Later, he said the advertisement was done without his knowledge, that "it was done by people who have no concept of the black community and what they were doing", and that he was "horrified" by it.[154]

The New York Times reported in 2015, "Carson has acknowledged being something of a novice on foreign affairs." Regarding the Ukrainian crisis, Carson would send arms to Ukraine to aid it in its fight against pro-Russian rebels. He also believes the Baltic states, current NATO members, should "get involved in NATO".[155]

In a November 2015 Republican debate, Carson declared his intentions to make ISIS "look like losers" as he would "destroy their caliphate". Carson also advocated capturing a "big energy field" outside of Anbar, Iraq, which he said could be accomplished "fairly easily". Regarding the Middle East, he also claimed that "the Chinese are there".[156]

Carson said he is not opposed to a Palestinian state, but he questioned why it needs "to be within the confines of Israeli territory ... Is that necessary, or can you sort of slip that area down into Egypt?"[157]

Withdrawal from campaign edit

On March 2, following the Super Tuesday 2016 primaries, Carson announced that he did "not see a political path forward" and would not attend the next Republican debate in Detroit.[14] He said, "[T]his grassroots movement on behalf of 'We the People' will continue", indicating that he would give more details later in the week.[14] He suspended his campaign on March 4 and announced he would be the new national chairman of My Faith Votes, a group that encourages Christians to exercise their civic duty to vote.[14][158]

In total, Ben Carson's campaign spent $58 million. However, most of the money went to political consultants and fundraising rather than advertising. Carson questioned whether his campaign was economically sabotaged from within.[159][160][161]

Further activities during the 2016 election edit

On March 11, 2016, a week after Carson ended his presidential campaign, he endorsed Trump, calling him part of "the voice of the people to be heard".[162] Carson's subsequent comments that Americans would have to sustain Trump for only four years if he was not a good president drew criticism, and he admitted that he would have preferred another candidate, though he thought Trump had the best chance of winning the general election.[163] On the other hand, at the press conference Carson said Trump had a "cerebral" side.[164]

On April 25, Carson expressed opposition to Harriet Tubman replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill the day after dubbing the replacement "political expediency", though he indicated interest in Tubman having another tribute.[165] In late April, Carson wrote to the Nevada Republican Party, requesting the two delegates he won in Nevada be released and free to support whoever they want.[166]

On May 4, after Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination, he hinted that Carson would be among those who would vet his vice-presidential pick.[167] The same day, in an interview Carson expressed interest in Ted Cruz serving as Attorney General of the United States, a position that Carson said would allow Cruz to prosecute Hillary Clinton, and then as a Supreme Court Justice nominee from the Trump administration.[168] On May 6, Carson said in an interview that Trump would consider a Democrat as his running mate, conflicting with Trump's assertion that he would not. A Carson spokesperson later said Carson expected Trump to select a Republican.[169] Carson was said by aide Armstrong Williams in a May 10 interview to have withdrawn from the Trump campaign's vetting team, though the campaign confirmed he was still involved.[170] Later that month, Carson revealed a list of potential vice-presidential candidates in an interview with The Washington Post.[171] On May 16, Carson said the media could not keep opinion out of reporting and cited Walter Cronkite as a fair journalist who was, in his words, a "left-wing radical".[172]

During the Republican National Convention, Carson appeared with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in support of the pro-Donald Trump Great America PAC at an event in Cleveland.[173]

Results edit

In total, Carson received 857,039 votes during the Republican primaries; this total represented 2.75% of the votes cast. The only jurisdiction he carried in the primaries was in the Alaska caucuses in which he won a single state house district, but this did not result in any delegates for his campaign from Alaska since the required threshold of votes statewide was not met. He received the support of seven delegates at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.[174] Trump received the Republican nomination[174] and went on to be elected president on November 8, 2016.[175]

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development edit

Nomination and confirmation edit

After Donald Trump's win in the 2016 election, Carson joined Trump's transition team as vice chairman. Carson was also offered a cabinet position in the administration. He declined, in part because of his lack of experience, with an aide stating, "The last thing he would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency."[176] Although it was reported that the position was for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Carson's business manager has disputed this, stating, "Dr. Carson was never offered a specific position, but everything was open to him."[176] He was eventually offered the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, which he accepted.[177]

On December 5, 2016, Trump announced that he would nominate Carson to the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.[178] During the confirmation process, Carson was scrutinized by some housing advocates for what they perceived as his lack of relevant experience.[15]

On January 24, 2017, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs voted unanimously to approve the nomination.[179] Senate Democrats attempted to defeat Carson's nomination via filibuster, but that vote failed on March 1, 2017,[180] and he was then confirmed by the Senate by a 58–41 vote the next day.[15]

Tenure edit

 
Carson at the 2019 State of the Union

In December 2017, The Economist described the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), led by Ben Carson, as "directionless".[181] Most of the top HUD positions were unfilled and Carson's leadership was "inconspicuous and inscrutable".[181] Of the policies HUD was enacting, The Economist wrote, "it is hard not to conclude that the governing principle at HUD is to take whatever the Obama administration was doing, and do the opposite."[181] HUD scaled back the enforcement of fair housing laws, halted several fair housing investigations started by the Obama administration[182] and removed the words "inclusive" and "free from discrimination" from its mission statement.[182] HUD saw an exodus of career officials during Carson's tenure.[183]

On March 6, his first day as secretary, while addressing Housing and Urban Development (HUD) employees, Carson saluted the work ethic of immigrants, and during his comments, he likened slaves to involuntary immigrants. A HUD spokesman said that no one present thought Carson "was equating voluntary immigration with involuntary servitude".[184] In the same speech, Carson was criticized by some for saying that the human brain "was incapable of forgetting and could be electrically stimulated into perfect recall".[185]

Under the federal budget proposed by Trump in 2017, HUD's budget for the fiscal year 2018 would be cut by $6.2 billion (13%) and the Community Development Block Grant, a program which Carson praised in a trip to Detroit as HUD secretary, would be eliminated.[186][187] Carson issued a statement supporting the proposed cuts.[188] Carson suggested that federal funds for housing in Detroit could be part of an expected infrastructure bill.[186]

In April 2017, while speaking in Washington at the National Low Income Housing Coalition conference, Carson said that housing funding would be included in an upcoming infrastructure bill from the Trump administration.[189]

In July 2017, during his keynote address at the LeadingAge Florida annual convention, Carson stated his concern about "seniors who become destitute" and reported that the Department of Housing and Urban Development had increased public housing programs for the elderly by an unspecified number.[190]

 
Carson speaks in 2019

In summer 2017, Carson allowed his son, Baltimore businessman, Ben Carson Jr., to participate in organizing a HUD "listening tour" in Baltimore. Internal documents obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act showed that the younger Carson "put people he'd invited in touch with his father's deputies, joined agency staff on official conference calls about the listening tour and copied his wife on related email exchanges".[191] The son's involvement prompted HUD staff to express concern; the department's deputy general counsel for operations wrote in a memorandum "that this gave the appearance that the Secretary may be using his position for his son's private gain".[191][192] Carson's wife, son, and daughter-in-law also attended official meetings.[191] In February 2018, the HUD inspector general's office confirmed that it was looking into the role Carson's family played at the department.[193]

During congressional testimony in May 2019, while being questioned by U.S. Representative Katie Porter,[194] Carson did not know what the term REO ("Real Estate Owned" refers to housing owned by a bank or lending institution post-foreclosure) stood for and confused it with the cookie, Oreo.[195][196] In response, Carson went on the Fox Business Network where he accused Democrats of adhering to "Saul Alinsky" tactics.[197]

On March 1, 2020, the office of Vice President Mike Pence announced Carson's addition to the White House Coronavirus Task Force.[198]

On November 9, 2020, Carson tested positive for COVID-19 after attending President Trump's Election Night party.[199][200] He initially treated himself with a homeopathic oleander extract on the recommendation of Mike Lindell, the founder of My Pillow, Inc., which Carson said caused his symptoms to disappear. Oleander was previously rejected by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19 and Carson received criticism for promoting an unscientific homeopathic treatment.[201][202][203] He disclosed on November 20 that he subsequently became "extremely sick" and attributed his recovery to Regeneron's experimental antibody therapy. He said that President Trump had given him access to the drug.[204]

Office furnishing scandal edit

Main article: Ben Carson office furnishing scandal

Carson received criticism for spending up to $31,000 on a dining set in his office in late 2017.[205] This expenditure was discovered after Helen Foster, a career HUD official, filed a complaint alleging that she had been demoted from her position because she refused to spend more than the legal $5,000 limit for office redecorations.[206] Carson and his spokesman said that he had little or no involvement in the purchase of the dining set. Later, email communications revealed that Carson and his wife selected the dining set.[207] On March 20, 2018, Carson testified before the United States House Committee on Appropriations that he had "dismissed" himself from the decision to buy the $31,000 dining room set and "left it to my wife, you know, to choose something".[208] On September 12, 2019, HUD's inspector general released a report clearing Carson of misconduct.[209][210][211]

Remarks on transgender use of homeless shelters edit

Carson was accused by members of the Department of Housing and Urban Development of making transphobic remarks at a meeting in San Francisco in September 2019. He warned that "big, hairy men" might infiltrate homeless shelters for women, prompting one woman to walk out. Reps. Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts and Jennifer Wexton of Virginia called for his resignation, but Carson said the accusations were a "mischaracterization". A HUD spokesperson responded that Carson "does not use derogatory language to refer to transgendered individuals. Any reporting to the contrary is false."[212][213]

Carson Scholars Fund edit

In 1994, Carson and his wife started the Carson Scholars Fund which awards scholarships to students in grades 4–11 for "academic excellence and humanitarian qualities".[214]

Recipients of the Carson Scholars Fund receive a $1,000 scholarship towards their college education. It has awarded 6,700 scholarships.[214][215] In recognition for his work with the Carson Scholars Fund and other charitable giving throughout his lifetime, Carson was awarded the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership in 2005.[216]

American Cornerstone Institute edit

In 2021, Carson founded the American Cornerstone Institute or ACI, a conservative think tank centered around advancing policies that promote "faith, liberty, community, and life".[217][218]

The ACI's mission statement is "dedicated to promoting and preserving individual and religious liberty, helping our country's most vulnerable find new hope, and developing methods to decrease the federal government's role in society and to improve efficiency to best serve ALL our nation's citizens. Headed by world-renowned neurosurgeon, presidential candidate, and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson, ACI will be a voice for reason and civility in a nation that is increasingly devoid of common sense."[219][promotion?]

Personal life edit

Carson and his wife, fellow Detroit native Lacena "Candy" Rustin, met in 1971 as students at Yale University and married in 1975.[220] They began living in West Friendship, Maryland, in 1988.[221] Together, the couple have three sons, as well as several grandchildren. Their oldest son was born in Perth, Australia.[222]

In 2001, Ben and Candy Carson bought a 48-acre property in Upperco, Maryland.[223][224]

After being diagnosed with prostate cancer, Carson underwent a two-hour operation at the Johns Hopkins Hospital on August 7, 2002.[225]

In 2013, Carson, his wife, and Carson's mother moved to West Palm Beach, Florida.[226][227]

Surrounding his confirmation as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Carson bought a $1.22 million home in Vienna, Virginia, in February 2017 and sold his West Palm Beach home for over $900,000 in May 2017.[228][229]

Religion edit

 
Carson speaking at a church service in Des Moines, Iowa

Carson and his wife are members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA).[230][231] Carson was baptized at Burns Seventh-day Adventist Church in Detroit. A few years later, he told the pastor at a church he was attending in Inkster, Michigan, that he had not fully understood his first baptism and wanted to be baptized again. He has served as a local elder and Sabbath School teacher in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and is a member of Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church.[232] Although Carson is an Adventist, the church has officially cautioned church employees to remain politically neutral.[233]

In keeping with his Seventh-day Adventist faith, Carson announced in 2014 his belief "that the United States will play a big role" in the coming apocalypse. He went on to say, "I hope by that time I'm not around anymore."[234]

Carson has stated that he does not believe in hell as understood by some Christians: "You know, I see God as a very loving individual. And why would he torment somebody forever who only had a life of 60 or 70 or 80 years? Even if they were evil. Even if they were only evil for 80 years?" This is fully in line with Adventist teaching, which promotes annihilationism.[235]

Carson endorsed Seventh-day Adventist theology, which includes belief in a literal reading of the first chapters of Genesis.[236] In a 2013 interview with Adventist News Network, Carson said: "You know, I'm proud of the fact that I believe what God has said, and I've said many times that I'll defend it before anyone. If they want to criticize the fact that I believe in a literal, six-day creation, let's have at it because I will poke all kinds of holes in what they believe."[237] Carson's Adventism was raised as an issue by his then-primary rival Donald Trump.[238] Some Adventists have argued that Carson's political positions on gun rights and religious liberty conflict with historic Adventist teachings in favor of nonviolence, pacifism, and the separation of church and state.[233][239]

In 1998, Carson was invited to give the commencement address at the prominent Andrews University, the flagship institution of the Seventh Day Adventist school system. During his speech, Carson voiced sympathies for the long discredited belief that the pyramids of Giza were built by the biblical figure Joseph to store grain.[Note 3] When questioned about it again in 2015, Carson stood by this assertion.[240][241]

Vegetarianism edit

Consistent with the practice of many Adventists, Carson was at one point a lacto-ovo vegetarian (he ate dishes containing milk, eggs, or cheese, and occasionally, poultry).[242][243][244] He has said his main reason for becoming vegetarian was health concerns, including avoiding parasites and heart disease, and he emphasizes the environmental benefits of vegetarianism.[243] His transition was made easier because he had eaten little meat for aesthetic reasons as a child,[243] and he readily adopted his wife's vegetarianism because she does much of the cooking in their household.[243][244] Speaking in 1990, he said that with the increasing availability of meat substitutes, "It might take 20 years. But eventually there will no longer be a reason for most people to eat meat. And animals will breathe a sigh of relief."[243] To avoid causing others discomfort, he is willing to occasionally eat chicken or turkey, although he finds eating pork highly unpleasant.[244] In August 2015, Carson claimed he does "occasionally enjoy a nice steak or a hamburger" at a town hall meeting in Iowa.[245][246]

Awards and honors edit

 
Carson at the White House in 2008 for the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Carson is a member of the American Academy of Achievement,[247][248] Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society,[249] and the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans.[250] Carson has been awarded 38 honorary doctorate degrees and dozens of national merit citations.[251] Detroit Public Schools opened the Dr. Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine[252] for students interested in pursuing healthcare careers. The school is partnering with Detroit Receiving Hospital and Michigan State University.[253]

Bibliography edit

  • Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story. Zondervan. 1992. ISBN 978-0-310-54651-1. (with Cecil Murphey)
  • Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence. Zondervan. 1996. ISBN 0-310-21459-9.
  • The Big Picture: Getting Perspective on What's Really Important in Life. Zondervan. 2000. ISBN 978-0-310-22583-6. (with Gregg Lewis)
  • Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk. Zondervan. 2009. ISBN 978-0-310-25973-2.
  • America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great. Thomas Nelson. 2013. ISBN 978-0-310-33091-2. (with Candy Carson)
  • One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future. Sentinel. 2014. ISBN 978-1-59523-112-3. (with Candy Carson), on The New York Times bestsellers list for 20 straight weeks, five of them as number one[137]
  • One Vote: Make Your Voice Heard. Tyndale House. 2014. ISBN 978-1-4964-0632-3. (with Candy Carson)
  • Carson, Ben; Lewis, Gregg; Lewis, Deborah Shaw (2015). You Have a Brain: A Teen's Guide to T.H.I.N.K. B.I.G. Zondervan. ISBN 978-0-310-74599-0. (with Gregg Lewis, Deborah Shaw Lewis)
  • My Life: Based on the Book Gifted Hands. Zondervan. 2015. ISBN 978-0-310-34451-3. (with Cecil Murphey)
  • Ben Carson, MD; Carson, Candy (2015). A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-698-19500-4. (with Candy Carson)
  • Ben Carson, MD (2022). Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing Present, and Hopeful Future of Race in America. Center Street. ISBN 978-1-546-00264-2.

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ He could have been offered a scholarship for incidentals by a private donor if he applied for admission and then attended.
  2. ^ He could have been offered a scholarship by a private donor if he applied for admission and attended.
  3. ^ The story of Joseph is usually dated as set in the time of Egypt's Middle Kingdom, five centuries after the time most scholars belief the pyramids of Giza were built.

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carson, confused, with, carson, benjamin, solomon, carson, born, september, 1951, american, retired, neurosurgeon, academic, author, politician, served, 17th, united, states, secretary, housing, urban, development, from, 2017, 2021, pioneer, field, neurosurger. Not to be confused with Ken Carson Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr born September 18 1951 is an American retired neurosurgeon academic author and politician who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021 A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery he was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries 2 3 4 Carson is one of the most prominent Black conservatives in America 5 Ben Carson17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentIn office March 2 2017 January 20 2021PresidentDonald TrumpDeputyPam PatenaudeBrian D MontgomeryPreceded byJulian CastroSucceeded byMarcia FudgePersonal detailsBornBenjamin Solomon Carson 1951 09 18 September 18 1951 age 72 Detroit Michigan U S Political partyRepublican 1981 1999 after 2014 1 Other politicalaffiliationsDemocratic before 1981 Independent 1999 2014 SpouseCandy Rustin m 1975 wbr Children3Residence s Vienna Virginia U S Alma materYale University BA University of Michigan MD OccupationNeurosurgeonpoliticianacademicauthorAwardsPresidential Medal of Freedom 2008 SignatureScientific careerFieldsNeurosurgeryPediatric neurosurgeryInstitutionsJohns Hopkins UniversityNational Academy of MedicineCarson became the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children s Center in 1984 at age 33 then the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States 6 In 1987 he gained significant fame after leading a team of surgeons in the first known separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head Although the surgery was a success the twins continued to experience neurological and medical complications 7 His additional accomplishments include performing the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb developing new methods to treat brain stem tumors and revitalizing hemispherectomy techniques for controlling seizures 8 9 6 10 He wrote over 100 neurosurgical publications He retired from medicine in 2013 at the time he was professor of neurosurgery oncology plastic surgery and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 11 Carson gained national fame among political conservatives after delivering a speech at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast which was perceived as critical of the policies of President Barack Obama 12 Following widespread speculation of a presidential run Carson officially announced his campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination for President in May 2015 Carson performed strongly in early polls leading to his being considered a frontrunner for the nomination during the fall of 2015 13 He withdrew from the race after Super Tuesday following a string of disappointing primary results and endorsed Donald Trump 14 Following Trump s victory Trump nominated Carson as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development being confirmed by the United States Senate in a 58 41 vote on March 2 2017 15 Carson has received numerous honors for his neurosurgery work including more than 60 honorary doctorate degrees and numerous national merit citations 16 In 2001 he was named by CNN and Time magazine as one of the nation s 20 foremost physicians and scientists and was selected by the Library of Congress as one of 89 Living Legends on its 200th anniversary 9 In 2008 Carson was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom the highest civilian award in the United States 17 In 2010 he was elected into the National Academy of Medicine 18 He was the subject of the 2009 TV film Gifted Hands The Ben Carson Story wherein he was portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr Carson has also written or co written six bestselling books Contents 1 Early life and education 1 1 High school 1 2 College 1 3 Medical school 2 Medical career 3 Articles books business relationships media posts 4 2016 presidential campaign 4 1 Background and increasing political visibility 4 2 Announcement of campaign 4 3 Surge in polls 4 4 Decline in polls 4 5 Withdrawal from campaign 4 6 Further activities during the 2016 election 4 7 Results 5 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 5 1 Nomination and confirmation 5 2 Tenure 5 2 1 Office furnishing scandal 5 2 2 Remarks on transgender use of homeless shelters 6 Carson Scholars Fund 7 American Cornerstone Institute 8 Personal life 8 1 Religion 8 2 Vegetarianism 9 Awards and honors 10 Bibliography 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 14 External linksEarly life and education editCarson s parents were Robert Solomon Carson Jr 1914 1992 a World War II U S Army veteran and Sonya Carson nee Copeland 1928 2017 19 Both from large families in rural Georgia Carson s parents met and married while living in rural Tennessee when his mother was 13 and his father 28 After Robert s completion of military service they moved from Chattanooga Tennessee to Detroit Michigan 20 21 where they lived in a large house in the Indian Village neighborhood 22 Carson s father a Baptist minister worked in a Cadillac automobile plant His older brother Curtis was born in 1949 when his mother was 20 23 In 1950 Carson s parents purchased a new 733 square foot single family detached home on Deacon Street in the Boynton neighborhood of southwest Detroit 24 25 26 where Carson was born on September 18 1951 Carson s Detroit Public Schools education began in 1956 with kindergarten at the Fisher School and continued through first second and the first half of third grade during which time he was an average student 27 28 At the age of five his mother learned that his father had a prior family and had not divorced his first wife 29 In 1959 at the age of eight his parents separated and he moved with his mother and brother to live for two years with his mother s Seventh day Adventist older sister and her sister s husband in multi family dwellings in the Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston 29 30 In Boston Carson s mother attempted suicide had several psychiatric hospitalizations for depression and for the first time began working outside the home as a domestic worker 29 while Carson and his brother attended a two classroom school at the Berea Seventh day Adventist church where two teachers taught eight grades and the vast majority of time was spent singing songs and playing games 27 In 1961 at the age of 10 he moved with his mother and brother back to southwest Detroit where they lived in a multi family dwelling in a primarily white neighborhood Springwells Village across the railroad tracks from the Delray neighborhood while renting out their house on Deacon Street which his mother received in a divorce settlement 24 29 31 When they returned to Detroit public schools Carson and his brother s academic performance initially lagged far behind their new classmates having according to Carson essentially lost a year of school by attending the small Seventh day Adventist parochial school in Boston 27 29 32 but they both improved when their mother limited their time watching television and required them to read and write book reports on two library books per week 33 Carson attended the predominantly white Higgins Elementary School for fifth and sixth grades and the predominantly white Wilson Junior High School for seventh and the first half of eighth grade 28 34 In 1965 at the age of 13 he moved with his mother and brother back to their house on Deacon Street 35 He attended the predominantly black Hunter Junior High School for the second half of eighth grade 28 35 At the age of eight Carson dreamt of becoming a missionary doctor but five years later he aspired to the lucrative lifestyles of psychiatrists portrayed on television and his brother bought him a subscription to Psychology Today for his 13th birthday 36 37 High school edit By grade 9 the family s financial situation had improved his mother surprising neighbors by paying cash to buy a new Chrysler car 38 and the only government assistance they still relied on was food stamps 39 Carson attended the predominantly black Southwestern High School for grades nine through twelve graduating third in his class academically 28 40 41 In high school he played the euphonium in band and participated in forensics public speaking 42 chess club 43 44 and the U S Army Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps JROTC program where he reached its highest rank cadet colonel 40 Carson served as a laboratory assistant in the high school s biology chemistry and physics school laboratories beginning in grades 10 11 and 12 respectively 45 and worked as a biology laboratory assistant at Wayne State University the summer between grade 11 and 12 46 In his book Gifted Hands Carson relates that as a youth he had a violent temper As a teenager I would go after people with rocks and bricks and baseball bats and hammers Carson told NBC s Meet the Press in October 2015 47 He said he once tried to hit his mother on the head with a hammer over a clothing dispute while in the ninth grade he tried to stab a friend who had changed the radio station Fortunately the blade broke in his friend s belt buckle 48 49 50 Carson said the intended victim whose identity he wants to protect was a classmate a friend or a close relative 51 52 After this incident Carson said he began reading the Book of Proverbs and applying verses on anger As a result he states he never had another problem with temper 53 54 55 In his various books and at campaign events he repeated these stories and said he once attacked a schoolmate with a combination lock Nine friends classmates and neighbors who grew up with him told CNN in 2015 they did not remember the anger or violence he has described 56 In response Carson posted on Facebook a 1997 Parade magazine issue in which his mother verified the stabbing incident He then questioned the extent of the effort CNN had exerted in the investigation 51 Carson has said that he protected white students in a biology lab after a race riot broke out at his high school in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 The Wall Street Journal confirmed the riot but could not find anyone who remembered Carson sheltering white students 57 58 College edit Carson s SAT college admission test scores ranked him somewhere in the low 90th percentile 59 41 60 61 He wanted to attend college farther away than his brother who was at the University of Michigan 62 Carson says he narrowed his college choices to Harvard or Yale but could only afford the 10 application fee to apply for only one of them 41 63 He said he decided to apply to Yale after seeing a team from Yale defeat a team from Harvard on the G E College Bowl television show 64 65 66 67 68 69 Carson was accepted by Yale and offered a full scholarship covering tuition room and board 70 71 In 1973 Carson graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Yale with a fairly respectable grade point average although far from the top of the class 72 73 Carson does not say in his books whether he received a college student deferment during the Vietnam War He does say that his older brother then a student at the University of Michigan received a low number 26 in the first draft lottery in 1969 and was able to enlist in the Navy for four years instead of being drafted 74 whereas he received a high number 333 in the second draft lottery in 1970 75 Carson said he would have readily accepted his responsibility to fight had he been drafted 75 but he identified strongly with the anti war protesters and the revolutionaries and enthusiastically voted for anti war Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern in 1972 76 In his book America the Beautiful 2012 Carson said The Vietnam War was in retrospect not a noble conflict It brought shame to our nation because of both the outcome and the cause 77 In the summers following his high school graduation until his second year in medical school Carson worked at a variety of jobs as a clerk in the payroll office of Ford Motor Company supervisor of a six person crew picking up trash along the highway under a federal jobs program for inner city students a clerk in the mailroom of Young amp Rubicam Advertising assembling fender parts and inspecting back window louvers on the assembly line at Chrysler a crane operator at Sennett Steel and finally a radiology technician taking X rays 78 At Yale Carson had a part time job on campus as a student police aide 79 In his autobiography Carson said he had been offered a scholarship to West Point Politico reported that West Point has no record of his ever seeking admission The academy does not award scholarships to anyone 80 cadets receive a free education and room and board in exchange for a commitment to serve in the military for at least five years after graduation 80 Note 1 Carson also said the University of Michigan had offered him a scholarship His staff later said the described scenario was similar to that of West Point as he never actually applied for entry to the University of Michigan Note 2 81 In his autobiography Gifted Hands Carson recounted that exams for a Yale psychology course he took his junior year Perceptions 301 were inexplicably burned forcing students to retake the exam Carson said other students walked out in protest when they discovered the retest was significantly harder than the original examination but that he alone finished the test On doing so Carson said he was congratulated by the course instructor who told him the retest was a hoax intended to find the most honest student in the class Carson said the professor awarded him 10 and that a photographer for the Yale Daily News was present to take his picture which appeared in the student newspaper with a story about the experiment Doubts were raised about this story in 2015 during Carson s presidential campaign The Wall Street Journal attempted to verify Carson s account reporting that Yale undergraduate courses were identified with only two digits in the early 1970s that Yale had offered no course called Perceptions 301 at the time and that Carson s photo had never appeared in the Yale Daily News 57 Carson while acknowledging the class number was not correct said You know when you write a book with a co writer and you say that there was a class a lot of the time they ll put a number or something just to give it more meat You know obviously decades later I m not going to remember the course number 82 Medical school edit Carson entered the University of Michigan Medical School in 1973 and at first he struggled academically doing so poorly on his first set of comprehensive exams that his faculty adviser recommended he drop out of medical school or take a reduced academic load and take longer to finish 83 84 He continued with a regular academic load and his grades improved to average in his first year of medical school By his second year of medical school Carson began to excel academically by seldom attending lectures and instead studying textbooks and lecture notes from 6 a m to 11 p m 85 Carson graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School with an M D degree in 1977 and he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society 73 Carson was then accepted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine neurosurgery program where he served one year as a surgical intern and five years as a neurosurgery resident completing the final year as chief resident in 1983 86 He then spent one year 1983 1984 as a Senior Registrar in neurosurgery at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Nedlands a suburb of Perth Western Australia 87 Medical career editUpon returning to Johns Hopkins in 1984 Carson was appointed the university s director of pediatric neurosurgery 88 As a surgeon he specialized in traumatic brain injuries brain and spinal cord tumors achondroplasia neurological and congenital disorders craniosynostosis epilepsy and trigeminal neuralgia 89 While at Johns Hopkins Carson figured in the revival of the hemispherectomy a drastic surgical procedure in which part or all of one hemisphere of the brain is removed to control severe pediatric epilepsy Encouraged by John M Freeman 90 he refined the procedure in the 1980s and performed it many times 91 92 In 1987 Carson was the lead neurosurgeon of a 70 member surgical team that separated conjoined twins Patrick and Benjamin Binder who had been joined at the back of the head craniopagus twins The separation surgery held promise in part because the twin boys had separate brains 93 The Johns Hopkins Children s Center surgical team rehearsed the surgery for weeks practicing on two dolls secured together by Velcro 93 Although there were few follow up stories following the Binder twins return to Germany seven months after the operation 93 both twins were reportedly far from normal two years after the procedure with one in a vegetative state 93 94 95 96 Neither twin was ever able to talk or care for himself and both eventually became institutionalized wards of the state 93 Patrick Binder died sometime during the last decade according to his uncle who was located by The Washington Post in 2015 93 The Binder surgery served as a blueprint for similar twin separations a procedure that was refined in subsequent decades 93 Carson participated in four subsequent high risk conjoined twin separations including a 1997 operation on craniopagus Zambian twins Joseph and Luka Banda which resulted in a normal neurological outcome 93 Two sets of twins died including Iranian twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani Another separation resulted in the death of one twin and the survival of the other who is legally blind and struggles to walk 97 According to The Washington Post the Binder surgery launched the stardom of Carson who walked out of the operating room that day into a spotlight that has never dimmed beginning with a press conference that was covered worldwide and created name recognition leading to publishing deals and a motivational speaking career 93 On the condition the film would have its premiere in Baltimore 93 Carson agreed to a cameo appearance as head surgeon in the 2003 Farrelly brothers comedy Stuck on You starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as conjoined twins who unhappy after their surgical separation continue life attached to each other by Velcro 93 98 In March 2013 Carson announced he would retire as a surgeon saying he would much rather quit when I m at the top of my game 99 His retirement became official on July 1 2013 100 In 2021 Carson joined Galectin Therapeutics to assist with development of the company s galectin 3 inhibitor belapectin as a treatment for NASH cirrhosis and in combination with immunotherapy for the treatment of cancers 101 Articles books business relationships media posts edit nbsp Carson and President George W Bush in 2008 nbsp Ben and Candy Carson with George and Laura Bush in 2008Carson has written many articles in peer reviewed journals 102 and six bestselling books 103 published by Zondervan an international Christian media and publishing company The first book was an autobiography published in 1992 Two others are about his personal philosophies of success and what he sees as the stabilizing influence of religion 104 105 According to CNN Carson had an extensive relationship from 2004 to 2014 with Mannatech a multi level marketing company that produces dietary supplements made from substances such as aloe vera extract and larch tree bark 106 107 108 Carson gave four paid speeches at company events He has denied being paid by Mannatech to do anything else saying he has been a prolific speaker who has addressed many groups 109 In a 2004 speech he credited the company s products with the disappearance of his prostate cancer symptoms 106 107 The nature of this relationship became an issue in 2015 during Carson s presidential campaign Carson s relationship with Mannatech continued after the company paid 7 million in 2009 to settle a deceptive marketing lawsuit in Texas over claims that its products could cure autism and cancer 106 110 111 His most recent paid speech for the company was in 2013 for which he was paid 42 000 His image appeared on the corporation s website in 2014 106 and in the same year he praised their glyconutrient supplements in a PBS special that was subsequently featured on the site 112 Carson delivered the keynote address at a Mannatech distributor convention in 2011 during which he said the company had donated funds to help him obtain a coveted endowed chair post at Johns Hopkins Medicine three years ago I had an endowed chair bestowed upon me and uh it requires 2 5 million to do an endowed chair and I m proud to say that part of that 2 5 million came from Mannatech In October 2015 Carson s campaign team said that there was no contribution from Mannatech to Johns Hopkins and that his statement had been a legitimate mistake on his part Confusion He had been doing some fundraising for the hospital and some other chairs about that time and he simply got things mixed up 113 During the CNBC GOP debate on October 28 2015 Carson was asked about his relationship with Mannatech He replied That s easy to answer I didn t have any involvement with Mannatech Total propaganda I did a couple speeches for them I did speeches for other people they were paid speeches It is absolutely absurd to say I had any kind of relation with them Do I take the product Yes I think it is a good product 114 Politifact rated Carson s denial of any involvement as false pointing to his paid speeches for Mannatech and his appearances in promotional videos in which he favorably reviewed its products despite not being an official spokesman or sales associate 108 When the CNBC moderator commented that Carson was on Mannatech s website Carson replied that he had not given his permission Earlier he had said he was unaware of the company s legal history 115 On November 3 2015 Mannatech said on its website that for compliance with federal campaign finance regulations the company had removed all references to Carson before he announced his bid for the presidency 116 In July 2013 Carson was hired by The Washington Times as a weekly opinion columnist 117 In October 2013 Fox News hired Carson as a contributor to provide analysis and commentary across Fox News Channel s daytime and primetime programming a relationship that lasted until the end of 2014 118 In 2014 some House Republicans who later formed the House Freedom Caucus approached Carson about the possibility of his standing for Speaker of the House in the event that the incumbent Speaker John Boehner had to step down because of intraparty disunion Carson declined citing preparations for his 2016 presidential campaign Ultimately Boehner resigned in October 2015 and Paul Ryan was elected as the new Speaker 119 In financial disclosure forms Carson and his wife reported income of between 8 9 million and 27 million from January 2014 to May 3 2015 when he announced his presidential campaign 120 Over that period Carson received over 4 million from 141 paid speeches between 1 1 million and 6 million in book royalties between 200 000 and 2 million as a contributor to The Washington Times and Fox News and between 2 million and 10 million as a member of the boards of Kellogg Co and Costco Wholesale Corp 120 He resigned from Costco s board in mid 2015 after serving on it for more than 16 years 121 Carson was chairman of the Baltimore based biotechnology company Vaccinogen from August 2014 122 until the announcement of his US presidential bid in May 2015 123 Carson had previously served on Vaccinogen s Medical Advisory Board 124 2016 presidential campaign editMain article Ben Carson 2016 presidential campaign nbsp Carson speaking at a campaign event in August 2015Background and increasing political visibility edit Carson who had been registered as a Republican changed his registration to independent in the 1990s after watching Republicans impeach President Clinton for perjury regarding an extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky I just saw so much hypocrisy in both parties he said 125 In February 2013 Carson said he was not a member of any political party 126 In his book America the Beautiful 2013 he wrote I believe it is a very good idea for physicians scientists engineers and others trained to make decisions based on facts and empirical data to get involved in the political arena 127 128 Carson was the keynote speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 7 2013 129 The speech garnered Carson considerable attention because the event is normally apolitical in nature and the speech was critical of the philosophy and policies of President Barack Obama who was sitting 10 feet away 130 About the speech Carson said I don t think it was particularly political You know I m a physician 131 Regarding the policies of President Obama he said There are a number of policies that I don t believe lead to the growth of our nation and don t lead to the elevation of our nation I don t want to sit here and say all of his policies are bad What I would like to see more often in this nation is an open and intelligent conversation 131 Carson s sudden popularity among conservatives led to his being invited as a featured speaker at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC He tied for seventh place in the Washington Times CPAC 2013 Straw Poll with 4 of the 3 000 ballots cast 132 133 In the 2014 CPAC straw poll he was in third place with 9 of the vote behind senators Ted Cruz of Texas with 11 and Rand Paul of Kentucky 31 134 In the presidential straw poll at the 2013 Values Voter Summit he and Rick Santorum polled 13 with winner Ted Cruz polling 42 and in 2014 he polled 20 to Cruz s winning 25 135 136 On November 4 2014 the day of the 2014 midterms he rejoined the Republican Party saying it was truly a pragmatic move because he was considering running for president in 2016 125 In January 2015 The Weekly Standard reported that the Draft Carson Committee had raised 13 million by the end of 2014 shortly after Carson performed well in a CNN ORC poll of potential candidates in December 2014 coming second in two different versions He polled 10 to Mitt Romney s 20 but in the same poll with Romney removed from the list Carson polled 11 to Jeb Bush s 14 137 138 The Wall Street Journal mentioned that the Draft Carson Committee had chairmen in all of Iowa s 99 counties and that Carson had recently led two separate Public Policy polls for the state of Pennsylvania 139 140 Announcement of campaign edit On May 2 2015 Carson proclaimed that in two days he was going to make a major announcement on his decision on whether to enter the presidential race 141 In an interview with Cincinnati station WKRC TV on May 3 2015 Carson accidentally confirmed his candidacy for president 142 The interview was also broadcast live on WPEC 143 The next day May 4 2015 at the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts in his home town of Detroit 144 he officially announced his run for the Republican nomination in the 2016 U S presidential election The announcement speech was preceded by a choir singing Lose Yourself with Carson sitting in the audience After the song Carson took the stage and announced his candidacy alongside a speech on his rags to riches life story at one point stating I remember when our favorite drug dealer was killed 145 Surge in polls edit nbsp Carson at a rally in August 2015In October 2015 the Super PAC supporting Carson The 2016 Committee formerly the Draft Carson Committee announced it had received donations in mostly 100 increments from more than 200 small businesses around the country over the course of one week Fox Business reported that Carson s outsider status is growing his small business support base Ben Walters a fundraiser for The 2016 Committee expressed optimism about Carson s small business support base It s unbelievable the diversity of businesses that we are bringing on We are seeing everything from doctors offices and folks in the healthcare profession to motorcycle repair shops and bed and breakfasts 146 In October it was noted that Carson s improbable political career had surged in polls and fundraising while he continued to participate in nationally televised Republican debates 147 148 Decline in polls edit nbsp Carson and Sean Hannity in January 2016 nbsp Carson speaking before the Nevada caucuses in February 2016The campaign brought considerable attention to Carson s past CBS News described Carson s narrative of overcoming impossible odds as a child growing up in an impoverished single parent household to reach international prominence as a pediatric neurosurgeon as a key part of his presidential campaign 149 The Wall Street Journal said the narrative came under the harsh scrutiny of presidential politics where rivals and media hunt for embellishments and omissions that can hobble a campaign 150 CNN characterized the core narrative as acts of violence as an angry young man followed by a spiritual epiphany that transformed Carson into the composed figure he now portrays 56 Media challenges to a number of Carson s statements included allegations of discrepancies between documented facts and certain assertions in his autobiography Gifted Hands allegations dismissed by Carson as a media witch hunt 80 In November 2015 the Detroit Free Press republished an article from 1988 to try to bring some clarity to the claims currently being brought into question 151 In November 2015 Carson s campaign aired a 60 second TV advertisement in which excerpts from Carson s stump speech were intercut with a rap by an artist named Aspiring Mogul 152 They spent 150 000 on the ads which were aired in Atlanta Detroit and Miami 153 Carson defended the ad saying Well there are people in the campaign who felt that was a good way to do things I support them in doing that but I probably would have taken a little different approach 152 Later he said the advertisement was done without his knowledge that it was done by people who have no concept of the black community and what they were doing and that he was horrified by it 154 The New York Times reported in 2015 Carson has acknowledged being something of a novice on foreign affairs Regarding the Ukrainian crisis Carson would send arms to Ukraine to aid it in its fight against pro Russian rebels He also believes the Baltic states current NATO members should get involved in NATO 155 In a November 2015 Republican debate Carson declared his intentions to make ISIS look like losers as he would destroy their caliphate Carson also advocated capturing a big energy field outside of Anbar Iraq which he said could be accomplished fairly easily Regarding the Middle East he also claimed that the Chinese are there 156 Carson said he is not opposed to a Palestinian state but he questioned why it needs to be within the confines of Israeli territory Is that necessary or can you sort of slip that area down into Egypt 157 Withdrawal from campaign edit On March 2 following the Super Tuesday 2016 primaries Carson announced that he did not see a political path forward and would not attend the next Republican debate in Detroit 14 He said T his grassroots movement on behalf of We the People will continue indicating that he would give more details later in the week 14 He suspended his campaign on March 4 and announced he would be the new national chairman of My Faith Votes a group that encourages Christians to exercise their civic duty to vote 14 158 In total Ben Carson s campaign spent 58 million However most of the money went to political consultants and fundraising rather than advertising Carson questioned whether his campaign was economically sabotaged from within 159 160 161 Further activities during the 2016 election edit On March 11 2016 a week after Carson ended his presidential campaign he endorsed Trump calling him part of the voice of the people to be heard 162 Carson s subsequent comments that Americans would have to sustain Trump for only four years if he was not a good president drew criticism and he admitted that he would have preferred another candidate though he thought Trump had the best chance of winning the general election 163 On the other hand at the press conference Carson said Trump had a cerebral side 164 On April 25 Carson expressed opposition to Harriet Tubman replacing Andrew Jackson on the 20 bill the day after dubbing the replacement political expediency though he indicated interest in Tubman having another tribute 165 In late April Carson wrote to the Nevada Republican Party requesting the two delegates he won in Nevada be released and free to support whoever they want 166 On May 4 after Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination he hinted that Carson would be among those who would vet his vice presidential pick 167 The same day in an interview Carson expressed interest in Ted Cruz serving as Attorney General of the United States a position that Carson said would allow Cruz to prosecute Hillary Clinton and then as a Supreme Court Justice nominee from the Trump administration 168 On May 6 Carson said in an interview that Trump would consider a Democrat as his running mate conflicting with Trump s assertion that he would not A Carson spokesperson later said Carson expected Trump to select a Republican 169 Carson was said by aide Armstrong Williams in a May 10 interview to have withdrawn from the Trump campaign s vetting team though the campaign confirmed he was still involved 170 Later that month Carson revealed a list of potential vice presidential candidates in an interview with The Washington Post 171 On May 16 Carson said the media could not keep opinion out of reporting and cited Walter Cronkite as a fair journalist who was in his words a left wing radical 172 During the Republican National Convention Carson appeared with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in support of the pro Donald Trump Great America PAC at an event in Cleveland 173 Results edit In total Carson received 857 039 votes during the Republican primaries this total represented 2 75 of the votes cast The only jurisdiction he carried in the primaries was in the Alaska caucuses in which he won a single state house district but this did not result in any delegates for his campaign from Alaska since the required threshold of votes statewide was not met He received the support of seven delegates at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland 174 Trump received the Republican nomination 174 and went on to be elected president on November 8 2016 175 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development editNomination and confirmation edit After Donald Trump s win in the 2016 election Carson joined Trump s transition team as vice chairman Carson was also offered a cabinet position in the administration He declined in part because of his lack of experience with an aide stating The last thing he would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency 176 Although it was reported that the position was for Secretary of Health and Human Services Carson s business manager has disputed this stating Dr Carson was never offered a specific position but everything was open to him 176 He was eventually offered the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development which he accepted 177 On December 5 2016 Trump announced that he would nominate Carson to the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 178 During the confirmation process Carson was scrutinized by some housing advocates for what they perceived as his lack of relevant experience 15 On January 24 2017 the Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs voted unanimously to approve the nomination 179 Senate Democrats attempted to defeat Carson s nomination via filibuster but that vote failed on March 1 2017 180 and he was then confirmed by the Senate by a 58 41 vote the next day 15 Tenure edit nbsp Carson at the 2019 State of the UnionIn December 2017 The Economist described the Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD led by Ben Carson as directionless 181 Most of the top HUD positions were unfilled and Carson s leadership was inconspicuous and inscrutable 181 Of the policies HUD was enacting The Economist wrote it is hard not to conclude that the governing principle at HUD is to take whatever the Obama administration was doing and do the opposite 181 HUD scaled back the enforcement of fair housing laws halted several fair housing investigations started by the Obama administration 182 and removed the words inclusive and free from discrimination from its mission statement 182 HUD saw an exodus of career officials during Carson s tenure 183 On March 6 his first day as secretary while addressing Housing and Urban Development HUD employees Carson saluted the work ethic of immigrants and during his comments he likened slaves to involuntary immigrants A HUD spokesman said that no one present thought Carson was equating voluntary immigration with involuntary servitude 184 In the same speech Carson was criticized by some for saying that the human brain was incapable of forgetting and could be electrically stimulated into perfect recall 185 Under the federal budget proposed by Trump in 2017 HUD s budget for the fiscal year 2018 would be cut by 6 2 billion 13 and the Community Development Block Grant a program which Carson praised in a trip to Detroit as HUD secretary would be eliminated 186 187 Carson issued a statement supporting the proposed cuts 188 Carson suggested that federal funds for housing in Detroit could be part of an expected infrastructure bill 186 In April 2017 while speaking in Washington at the National Low Income Housing Coalition conference Carson said that housing funding would be included in an upcoming infrastructure bill from the Trump administration 189 In July 2017 during his keynote address at the LeadingAge Florida annual convention Carson stated his concern about seniors who become destitute and reported that the Department of Housing and Urban Development had increased public housing programs for the elderly by an unspecified number 190 nbsp Carson speaks in 2019In summer 2017 Carson allowed his son Baltimore businessman Ben Carson Jr to participate in organizing a HUD listening tour in Baltimore Internal documents obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act showed that the younger Carson put people he d invited in touch with his father s deputies joined agency staff on official conference calls about the listening tour and copied his wife on related email exchanges 191 The son s involvement prompted HUD staff to express concern the department s deputy general counsel for operations wrote in a memorandum that this gave the appearance that the Secretary may be using his position for his son s private gain 191 192 Carson s wife son and daughter in law also attended official meetings 191 In February 2018 the HUD inspector general s office confirmed that it was looking into the role Carson s family played at the department 193 During congressional testimony in May 2019 while being questioned by U S Representative Katie Porter 194 Carson did not know what the term REO Real Estate Owned refers to housing owned by a bank or lending institution post foreclosure stood for and confused it with the cookie Oreo 195 196 In response Carson went on the Fox Business Network where he accused Democrats of adhering to Saul Alinsky tactics 197 On March 1 2020 the office of Vice President Mike Pence announced Carson s addition to the White House Coronavirus Task Force 198 On November 9 2020 Carson tested positive for COVID 19 after attending President Trump s Election Night party 199 200 He initially treated himself with a homeopathic oleander extract on the recommendation of Mike Lindell the founder of My Pillow Inc which Carson said caused his symptoms to disappear Oleander was previously rejected by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID 19 and Carson received criticism for promoting an unscientific homeopathic treatment 201 202 203 He disclosed on November 20 that he subsequently became extremely sick and attributed his recovery to Regeneron s experimental antibody therapy He said that President Trump had given him access to the drug 204 Office furnishing scandal edit Main article Ben Carson office furnishing scandal Carson received criticism for spending up to 31 000 on a dining set in his office in late 2017 205 This expenditure was discovered after Helen Foster a career HUD official filed a complaint alleging that she had been demoted from her position because she refused to spend more than the legal 5 000 limit for office redecorations 206 Carson and his spokesman said that he had little or no involvement in the purchase of the dining set Later email communications revealed that Carson and his wife selected the dining set 207 On March 20 2018 Carson testified before the United States House Committee on Appropriations that he had dismissed himself from the decision to buy the 31 000 dining room set and left it to my wife you know to choose something 208 On September 12 2019 HUD s inspector general released a report clearing Carson of misconduct 209 210 211 Remarks on transgender use of homeless shelters edit Carson was accused by members of the Department of Housing and Urban Development of making transphobic remarks at a meeting in San Francisco in September 2019 He warned that big hairy men might infiltrate homeless shelters for women prompting one woman to walk out Reps Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts and Jennifer Wexton of Virginia called for his resignation but Carson said the accusations were a mischaracterization A HUD spokesperson responded that Carson does not use derogatory language to refer to transgendered individuals Any reporting to the contrary is false 212 213 Carson Scholars Fund editIn 1994 Carson and his wife started the Carson Scholars Fund which awards scholarships to students in grades 4 11 for academic excellence and humanitarian qualities 214 Recipients of the Carson Scholars Fund receive a 1 000 scholarship towards their college education It has awarded 6 700 scholarships 214 215 In recognition for his work with the Carson Scholars Fund and other charitable giving throughout his lifetime Carson was awarded the William E Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership in 2005 216 American Cornerstone Institute editIn 2021 Carson founded the American Cornerstone Institute or ACI a conservative think tank centered around advancing policies that promote faith liberty community and life 217 218 The ACI s mission statement is dedicated to promoting and preserving individual and religious liberty helping our country s most vulnerable find new hope and developing methods to decrease the federal government s role in society and to improve efficiency to best serve ALL our nation s citizens Headed by world renowned neurosurgeon presidential candidate and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr Ben Carson ACI will be a voice for reason and civility in a nation that is increasingly devoid of common sense 219 promotion Personal life editCarson and his wife fellow Detroit native Lacena Candy Rustin met in 1971 as students at Yale University and married in 1975 220 They began living in West Friendship Maryland in 1988 221 Together the couple have three sons as well as several grandchildren Their oldest son was born in Perth Australia 222 In 2001 Ben and Candy Carson bought a 48 acre property in Upperco Maryland 223 224 After being diagnosed with prostate cancer Carson underwent a two hour operation at the Johns Hopkins Hospital on August 7 2002 225 In 2013 Carson his wife and Carson s mother moved to West Palm Beach Florida 226 227 Surrounding his confirmation as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Carson bought a 1 22 million home in Vienna Virginia in February 2017 and sold his West Palm Beach home for over 900 000 in May 2017 228 229 Religion edit nbsp Carson speaking at a church service in Des Moines IowaCarson and his wife are members of the Seventh day Adventist Church SDA 230 231 Carson was baptized at Burns Seventh day Adventist Church in Detroit A few years later he told the pastor at a church he was attending in Inkster Michigan that he had not fully understood his first baptism and wanted to be baptized again He has served as a local elder and Sabbath School teacher in the Seventh day Adventist Church and is a member of Spencerville Seventh day Adventist Church 232 Although Carson is an Adventist the church has officially cautioned church employees to remain politically neutral 233 In keeping with his Seventh day Adventist faith Carson announced in 2014 his belief that the United States will play a big role in the coming apocalypse He went on to say I hope by that time I m not around anymore 234 Carson has stated that he does not believe in hell as understood by some Christians You know I see God as a very loving individual And why would he torment somebody forever who only had a life of 60 or 70 or 80 years Even if they were evil Even if they were only evil for 80 years This is fully in line with Adventist teaching which promotes annihilationism 235 Carson endorsed Seventh day Adventist theology which includes belief in a literal reading of the first chapters of Genesis 236 In a 2013 interview with Adventist News Network Carson said You know I m proud of the fact that I believe what God has said and I ve said many times that I ll defend it before anyone If they want to criticize the fact that I believe in a literal six day creation let s have at it because I will poke all kinds of holes in what they believe 237 Carson s Adventism was raised as an issue by his then primary rival Donald Trump 238 Some Adventists have argued that Carson s political positions on gun rights and religious liberty conflict with historic Adventist teachings in favor of nonviolence pacifism and the separation of church and state 233 239 In 1998 Carson was invited to give the commencement address at the prominent Andrews University the flagship institution of the Seventh Day Adventist school system During his speech Carson voiced sympathies for the long discredited belief that the pyramids of Giza were built by the biblical figure Joseph to store grain Note 3 When questioned about it again in 2015 Carson stood by this assertion 240 241 Vegetarianism edit Consistent with the practice of many Adventists Carson was at one point a lacto ovo vegetarian he ate dishes containing milk eggs or cheese and occasionally poultry 242 243 244 He has said his main reason for becoming vegetarian was health concerns including avoiding parasites and heart disease and he emphasizes the environmental benefits of vegetarianism 243 His transition was made easier because he had eaten little meat for aesthetic reasons as a child 243 and he readily adopted his wife s vegetarianism because she does much of the cooking in their household 243 244 Speaking in 1990 he said that with the increasing availability of meat substitutes It might take 20 years But eventually there will no longer be a reason for most people to eat meat And animals will breathe a sigh of relief 243 To avoid causing others discomfort he is willing to occasionally eat chicken or turkey although he finds eating pork highly unpleasant 244 In August 2015 Carson claimed he does occasionally enjoy a nice steak or a hamburger at a town hall meeting in Iowa 245 246 Awards and honors edit nbsp Carson at the White House in 2008 for the Presidential Medal of FreedomCarson is a member of the American Academy of Achievement 247 248 Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society 249 and the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans 250 Carson has been awarded 38 honorary doctorate degrees and dozens of national merit citations 251 Detroit Public Schools opened the Dr Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine 252 for students interested in pursuing healthcare careers The school is partnering with Detroit Receiving Hospital and Michigan State University 253 In 2000 he received the Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards 254 In 2001 he was elected by the Library of Congress on the occasion of its 200th anniversary to be one of the 89 who earned the designation Library of Congress Living Legend 255 In 2004 he was appointed to serve on The President s Council on Bioethics 256 In 2005 Carson was awarded the William E Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership 257 In 2006 he received the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP their highest honor for outstanding achievement 258 In 2008 the White House awarded Carson the Presidential Medal of Freedom the nation s highest civilian honor 259 In 2008 Ford s Theatre Society awarded Carson the Ford s Theatre Lincoln Medal for exemplifying the qualities embodied by President Abraham Lincoln including courage integrity tolerance equality and creative expression through superior achievements 260 261 In 2008 U S News amp World Report named Carson as one of America s Best Leaders 262 In 2010 he was elected into the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine 263 In 2012 Carson was the Influential Marylander Award recipient from The Daily Record Baltimore s legal and business newspaper 264 In 2014 a poll of Americans conducted by Gallup ranked Carson sixth on a list of the most admired persons 265 He is an emeritus fellow of the Yale Corporation 266 Bibliography editGifted Hands The Ben Carson Story Zondervan 1992 ISBN 978 0 310 54651 1 with Cecil Murphey Think Big Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence Zondervan 1996 ISBN 0 310 21459 9 The Big Picture Getting Perspective on What s Really Important in Life Zondervan 2000 ISBN 978 0 310 22583 6 with Gregg Lewis Take the Risk Learning to Identify Choose and Live with Acceptable Risk Zondervan 2009 ISBN 978 0 310 25973 2 America the Beautiful Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great Thomas Nelson 2013 ISBN 978 0 310 33091 2 with Candy Carson One Nation What We Can All Do to Save America s Future Sentinel 2014 ISBN 978 1 59523 112 3 with Candy Carson on The New York Times bestsellers list for 20 straight weeks five of them as number one 137 One Vote Make Your Voice Heard Tyndale House 2014 ISBN 978 1 4964 0632 3 with Candy Carson Carson Ben Lewis Gregg Lewis Deborah Shaw 2015 You Have a Brain A Teen s Guide to T H I N K B I G Zondervan ISBN 978 0 310 74599 0 with Gregg Lewis Deborah Shaw Lewis My Life Based on the Book Gifted Hands Zondervan 2015 ISBN 978 0 310 34451 3 with Cecil Murphey Ben Carson MD Carson Candy 2015 A More Perfect Union What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties Penguin ISBN 978 0 698 19500 4 with Candy Carson Ben Carson MD 2022 Created Equal The Painful Past Confusing Present and Hopeful Future of Race in America Center Street ISBN 978 1 546 00264 2 See also editList of African American Republicans 2016 Republican Party presidential candidatesNotes edit He could have been offered a scholarship for incidentals by a private donor if he applied for admission and then attended He could have been offered a scholarship by a private donor if he applied for admission and attended The story of Joseph is usually dated as set in the time of Egypt s Middle Kingdom five centuries after the time most scholars belief the pyramids of Giza were built References edit Solomon John Ben Carson officially changes political parties rejoins GOP The Washington Times November 4 2014 Dooley Erin March 2 2017 Everything you need to know about HUD Secretary Ben Carson ABC News Archived from the original on December 5 2016 Retrieved June 6 2021 Garrison Greg April 26 2012 Pioneer surgeon Ben Carson will speak at Birmingham Southern tonight al Archived from the original on April 4 2021 Retrieved November 9 2020 Ben Carson Brochure PDF Morehouse School of 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conflict report says Archived March 1 2018 at the Wayback Machine Baltimore Sun January 31 2018 Jeremy Diamond HUD inspector general looking into role Ben Carson s family has played CNN February 20 2018 Kelly Caroline June 5 2019 Ben Carson and Rep Katie Porter continue feud over Oreo moment CNN Politics Retrieved February 14 2022 Chris Cillizza May 22 2019 Ben Carson s Oreo screw up is the most predictable thing ever CNN Washington DC Retrieved May 22 2019 Deanna Paul and Colby Itkowitz May 22 2019 Ben Carson took to Fox Business to explain why he thought he was asked about Oreos The Washington Post Washington DC Retrieved May 22 2019 Baragona Justin May 22 2019 Ben Carson Blames Democrats Alinsky Tactics for His Oreo Moment Retrieved May 31 2019 Lejeune Tristan March 2 2020 White House adds VA secretary CMS chief to coronavirus task force The Hill Retrieved April 14 2020 Pramuk Kevin Breuninger Jacob November 9 2020 HUD Secretary Ben Carson tests positive for coronavirus CNBC 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