Carson has been married to Lacena “Candy” Carson (nee Rustin) for 40 years. Dr. Ben Carson and Candy Carson at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference. National Archives and Records Administration (2005). [139] The interview was also broadcast live on WPEC. [17] 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,[17][18] where they lived in a large house in the Indian Village neighborhood. that I think would be positive for our nation at your very earliest convenience. [6] In 2008, Carson was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. [20] After this experience, when she became pregnant again in the following year, Carson was placed on bed rest by her doctor after the fourth month. Because they got to stay longer! He's an avid reader. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (2011). Confusion. These Are The 15 Hottest Wives And Girlfriends Of Hollywood! [70], 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. "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.
[175], On December 5, 2016, Trump announced that he would nominate Carson to the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Carson said other students walked out in protest when they discovered the retest was significantly harder than the original examination, but he alone finished the test. [14] He was the subject of the 2009 TV film Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, where he was portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. 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). [234] Ron Paul, Rand’s Father: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Recipients of the Carson Scholars Scholarship. [167] [69][70], Carson does not say in his books whether he received a college student deferment during the Vietnam War. According to his Bio biography, Carson realized that he was lashing out because he was putting himself in the middle of everything and not taking the time to realize that not everything is about him or is focused at him. Murray knows; he researches EVERYTHING! She recently played publicly when she performed the National Anthem during her husband’s campaign kick-off.
[80][81] He continued with a regular academic load, and his grades improved to average in his first year of medical school. OK, maybe not, but Murray is grateful to have his distant (geographically) cousin participating in the wedding. "[128], Carson's sudden popularity among conservatives led to his being invited as a featured speaker at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). I am now a Donald Trump supporter and have been trying to get a message thru to his campaign without any luck. Rhoeyce Carson is an actor, known for Stuck on You (2003).