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At the age of five, his mother learned that his father had a prior family and had not divorced his first wife. 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, where Carson was born on September 18, 1951.Ĭarson'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. His older brother, Curtis, was born in 1949, when his mother was 20. Carson's father, a Baptist minister, worked in a Cadillac automobile plant. After Robert's completion of military service, they moved from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Detroit, Michigan, where they lived in a large house in the Indian Village neighborhood. 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. Army veteran, and Sonya Carson (née Copeland, 1928–2017). Carson has also written or co-written six bestselling books.Ĭarson's parents were Robert Solomon Carson Jr.

#Gifted hands ben carson book pdf tv

He was the subject of the 2009 TV film Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, wherein he was portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. In 2010, he was elected into the National Academy of Medicine. In 2008, Carson was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. 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.

Ĭarson has received numerous honors for his neurosurgery work, including more than 60 honorary doctorate degrees and numerous national merit citations. 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. He withdrew from the race after Super Tuesday, following a string of disappointing primary results, and endorsed Donald Trump. Carson performed strongly in early polls, leading to his being considered a frontrunner for the nomination during the fall of 2015. Following widespread speculation of a presidential run, Carson officially announced his campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination for President in May 2015. Ĭarson 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. 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. He wrote over 100 neurosurgical publications. 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. Although the surgery was a success, the twins continued to experience neurological and medical complications.

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. Ĭarson 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. Carson is one of the most prominent Black conservatives in America.

A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, he was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries. (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.