Ben Carson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ben Carson
Occupation	Doctor
Date Of Birth	Sep 18, 1951(1951-09-18)
Age	73
Birthplace	Detroit
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Virgo

Ben Carson Biography

Ben Carson is one of the most popular and richest Doctor who was born on September 18, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Neurosurgeon, who was employed in the John Hopkins Hospital. He was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Neurosurgeon who worked at John Hopkins Hospital. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. He became a 2016 presidential candidate and he quickly rose in the polls alongside Donald Trump.. He became a presidential candidate, and he rapidly increased his popularity among voters alongside Donald Trump.

He was played as portrayed by He was portrayed by Cuba Gooding, Jr. in the TV film Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story. in the TV film Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story.

Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American politician, public servant, author and retired neurosurgeon serving as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development since 2017. Prior to his cabinet position under the Trump Administration, Carson was a candidate for President of the United States in the Republican primaries in 2016, at times leading nationwide polls of Republicans.

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. When Carson was five, his mother learned that his father had a prior family and had not divorced his first wife. In 1959, when Carson was eight, his parents separated and he moved with 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. 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, 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.

He got married to He married Candy Carson in 1975, and they had three children together, Murray, Benjamin Jr., and Rhoeyce. in 1975. They were blessed with three children, Murray, Benjamin Jr. and Rhoeyce.

Ben Carson Net Worth

Ben Carson is one of the richest Doctor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ben Carson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student at Yale University and the University of Michigan Medical School.

The book was released by the author America the Beautiful: Rediscovering the Factors that It Was That Made This Nation Great in 2011.

Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Robert Solomon Carson, Jr. (1914–1992), a World War II U.S. Army veteran, and his wife, Sonya Carson (née Copeland; 1928–2017). Robert Carson was a Baptist minister, but later a Cadillac automobile plant laborer. Both his parents came from large families in rural Georgia, and they were living in rural Tennessee when they met and married. Carson’s mother was 13 and his father was 28 when they married, and after his father finished his military service, they moved from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Detroit, where they lived in a large house in the Indian Village neighborhood. Carson’s older brother, Curtis, was born in 1949, when his mother was 20. In 1950, Carson’s parents purchased a new 733-square foot single-family detached home on Deacon Street in the Boynton neighborhood in southwest Detroit.

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Who is Ben Carson Dating?

According to our records, Ben Carson married to Candy Carson. As of December 1, 2023, Ben Carson’s is not dating anyone.

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Carson entered the University of Michigan Medical School in 1973, and at first 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. 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. Carson graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School with an M.D. in 1977, and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.

Facts & Trivia

Ben Ranked on the list of most popular Doctor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ben Carson celebrates birthday on September 18 of every year.

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, he refined the procedure in the 1980s and performed it many times.

Is the Ben Carson story true?

The film is based on the autobiography of neurosurgeon (and later politician) Ben Carson, which was co-written by Cecil Murphey and published under the same title in 1990. A Johnson & Johnson Spotlight Presentation, the movie premiered on TNT on Saturday, February 7, 2009. Cuba Gooding Jr.

Did Ben Carson remove half a brain?

PHYLLIS CROCKETT, BYLINE: Dr. Ben Carson’ is director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center in Baltimore. He performed the surgery on the children who had gathered for the reunion. He says most were so debilitated that removing the diseased half of their brain was worth the risk.

What did Dr Ben Carson's mother say to him?

Sonya Carson

What is Ben Carson's profession?

Professions

What were Carson's accomplishments?

At retirement, he was professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Carson’s achievements include participating in the first reported separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head.