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Fay Winford Boozman, III (November 10, 1946 – March 19, 2005)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕 was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas, a close friend of former Governor Mike Huckabee and a brother of U.S. Senator John Boozman. ==Political offices== At the time of his death at the age of fifty-eight as a result of a freak accident, Boozman, an ophthalmologist,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dr. Fay Boozman (obituary), March 28, 2005 )〕 was the director of the Arkansas Health Department. He had first become involved in politics while working on Huckabee's 1993 special election campaign for lieutenant governor. As health department director, Boozman was the front man for Huckabee's Healthy Arkansas initiatives and earned national attention for his commitment to reducing obesity.〔David Hammer, "Health Department director Fay Boozman dies in accident on Rogers farm", ''Rogers Morning Times'', March 20, 2005〕 From 1995 to 1998, Boozman was a member of the Arkansas State Senate from Rogers in Benton County. He succeeded the Democrat Reid Holliman, a supporter of former U.S. Senator Dale Bumpers and U.S. President Bill Clinton. In 1998, rather than running for a second term for the state Senate, Boozman was the unsuccessful Republican nominee against Democrat Blanche Lincoln. Lincoln received 385,878 votes (55.1 percent) to Boozman's 295,870 (42.2 percent).〔State of Arkansas. Secretary of State, 1998 general election returns〕 In 2010, Boozman's brother, John, defeated Lincoln for the same Senate seat he had unsuccessfully run for. During the campaign against Lincoln, Boozman came under criticism when he claimed that victims of rape were rarely impregnated as a result of the crime due to hormanal protection that results from a "true" rape, at the time an opinion he had in common with 2012 Missouri Republican nominee for US Senate Todd Akin. He later apologized for the statement, saying that it was "not statistically based."〔 Boozman, who was strongly pro-life, saw his role as director of the health department as that of a "Christian" and a "servant." Those who worked with him found him "caring, sensitive, a family man () a servant's heart, nice, compassionate, principled, and moral."〔 Dr. Boozman was also a former medical advisor to a crisis pregnancy center. A Republican, Dave Bisbee, was elected to succeed Boozman. The seat was held until 2013 by Kim Hendren, another Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate nomination and a brother-in-law of former U.S. Senator Tim Hutchinson and former U.S. Representative Asa Hutchinson who currently serves as Governor of Arkansas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fay Boozman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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