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{{Officeholder
|name=Ben Carson
|image=Ben Carson official portrait.jpg
|party=[[Democrat]] (before 1981)<br>[[Republican]] (1981 – 1999)<br>[[Independent voters|Independent]] (1999 – 2014)<br>[[Republican]] (2014 – present)
|spouse=Candy Carson
|religion=[[Seventh-day Adventist]] (see also: [[Ben Carson's religious views]])
|offices=
{{Officeholder/secretary (cabinet)
|of=Housing and Urban Development
|number=17th
|president=[[Donald Trump]]
|terms=March 2, 2017 – present
|preceded=[[Julian Castro]]
|former=n
|succeeded=
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'''Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson''', M.D. (born September 18, 1951), is the 17th United States [[Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]] under Republican President [[Donald Trump]]. He is also a widely admired [[conservative]] who was a candidate for the [[Republican]] nomination for president in the [[2016 U.S. presidential election|2016 election]].<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/04/ben-carson-tells-tv-station-is-running-for-president/ "Carson, Fiorina launch 2016 bids as diversity of GOP field grows"] (May 4, 2015). Fox News website/Politics/Republicans.</ref> Carson finished a strong fourth in the [[CPAC]] straw poll in 2015. Carson, [[Ted Cruz]], [[Rand Paul]] and [[Mike Huckabee]] were the only [[2016 presidential candidates on homosexuality|presidential candidates]] willing to speak the truth against the [[homosexual agenda]].
'''Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson''', M.D. (born September 18, 1951), is the 17th United States [[Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]] under Republican President [[Donald Trump]]. He is also a widely admired [[conservative]] who was a candidate for the [[Republican]] nomination for president in the [[2016 U.S. presidential election|2016 election]].<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/04/ben-carson-tells-tv-station-is-running-for-president/ "Carson, Fiorina launch 2016 bids as diversity of GOP field grows"] (May 4, 2015). Fox News website/Politics/Republicans.</ref> Carson finished a strong fourth in the [[CPAC]] straw poll in 2015. Carson, [[Ted Cruz]], [[Rand Paul]] and [[Mike Huckabee]] were the only [[2016 presidential candidates on homosexuality|presidential candidates]] willing to speak the truth against the [[homosexual agenda]].