<big>'''''First runner-up to [[File:Conservative of the Year 2023]]'''''</big>{{Officeholder|name=Ben Carson|image=Ben Carson official portrait.jpg|thumbparty=[[Democrat]] (before 1981)<br>[[Republican]] (1981 – 1999)<br>[[Independent voters|250pxIndependent]] (1999 – 2014)<br>[[Republican]] (2014 – present)|Official portraitspouse=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= }}}}'''Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson''', M.D. (born September 18, 1951), is served as 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]].
In August 2015, Ben Carson rebuked the [[liberal media]] and "dismisses '[[anchor-babies]]' controversy as 'silly'"'': “We need to talk about the actual issue and stop getting pulled off into the weeds and saying, 'you can't use this term, you can't use that term.'"''<ref>Herb, Jeremy (August 23, 2015). [https://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/ben-carson-anchor-babies-immigration-2016-121639.html#ixzz3jeO9xbve "Carson dismisses 'anchor-babies' controversy as 'silly'"] (August 23, 2015). Politico website.</ref>
Among many conservative positions, Carson favors [[charter school]]s as part of a school choice program, saying that competition keeps schools from becoming complacent.<ref>Richter, Greg and Bachman, John (April 14, 2013). [https://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/ben-carson-education-attacks/2013/04/14/id/499393?promo_code=F492-1&utm_source=Test_Newsmax_Feed&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1#ixzz2Qd9Y52RN "Ben Carson: Attacks only making me more determined"]. Newsmax website.</ref>
With his wife Candy, Ben Carson wrote the best-seller : ''America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great'' in 2013 and also a best-seller in 2014 , which remained a best-seller among U.S. politics books in 2015: ''One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future''.
He is described by liberal "comedian" [[Chelsea Handler]] as a "black white supremacist"."<ref>https://www.infowars.com/chelsea-handler-calls-ben-carson-a-black-white-supremacist/</ref> In May 2016, the [[SPLC]] apologized to [[Ben Carson]] after placing the then-potential Republican presidential candidate on its "Extremist Watch List" — which is mostly made up of hate groups and white supremacists — for allegedly being "anti-gay."<ref>Jessica Chasmar, Joe Schoffstall. [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/assault-conservative-groups-10-things-you-need-know-southern-poverty-law-center Assault on conservative groups: 10 things you need to know about Southern Poverty Law CenterAssault on conservative groups: 10 things you need to know about Southern Poverty Law Center], ''Fox News'', June 9, 2023.</ref>
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