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Who is Ben Carson, whom Donald Trump appointed as Secretary of Housing? The only African American candidate is an eminent neurosurgeon, writer and philanthropist Full name: Benjamin Solomon Carson Age: 63 (born September 18, 1951) Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan Education: psychologist (Yale University), neurosurgeon (University of Michigan) Marital status: married (wife - Lasina (Candy) Carson), three sons - Murray, Benjamin Jr., Royce Party affiliation: Formerly an independent voter, registered as a Republican in 2014 Books: Author of six best-selling books, including his autobiography Golden Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1992), which was made into a film of the same name in 2009. Benjamin Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan to Robert Solomon Carson, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, and Sonia Carson (née Copeland). When he was 8 years old, his parents divorced - his mother discovered that her husband had a parallel family. Ben C  Ben Carson's arson admits that as a child he was at "risk" - growing up in a poor neighborhood flooded with drug dealers and regularly getting into fights. Due to poor performance at school, classmates nicknamed him "stupid" (dummy). Carson's mother was an uneducated woman (she completed only three grades of elementary school), but she had a decisive influence on her son, limiting her TV viewing time and requiring him to read two books a week with her older brother Curtis. Sonya Carson convinced her son that God has a great purpose for every person, and that if they make an effort, they will succeed. The turning point at the age of 14 for him was a fight with a classmate whom Ben Carson tried to stab. The teenager was saved by a belt buckle - and the incident prompted Ben himself to reconsider his behavior and life goals. He managed to correct his grades, he had a goal: to become a doctor. 1973 - Receives a bachelor's degree from Yale University in the Department of Psychology ("At first I wanted to be a psychiatrist, but in the medical school I changed my mind when I discovered that psychiatrists do not really do what they show on TV"). 1977 Graduates from the University of Michigan School of Medicine and begins working at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore. 1984 - at the age of 33, he becomes the youngest head of the department of pediatric neurosurgery in the history of the hospital. With an average of 400 surgeries per year, Carson is making significant advances in medicine, including refining the rare hemispherectomy, the removal of one hemisphere of the brain, which is used in severe cases of epilepsy or a brain tumor. 1987 - A team of 70 surgeons under his leadership performs the first ever successful operation to separate head-fused Siamese twins. The operation, which was planned for five months, lasted 22 hours. Both twins - Patrick and Benjamin Binder - survived, Dr. Ben Carson gained worldwide fame. https://tonaton.com/s_36-ben-carson

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