Fay Boozman
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| Arkansas State Senator from District 33 (Benton County) | |
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In office 1995–1998 |
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| Preceded by | Reid Holliman |
| Succeeded by | Dave Bisbee |
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Fay Winford Boozman, III November 10, 1946 Reared in Fort Smith Sebastian County Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | March 19, 2005 (aged 58) Rogers, Benton County Arkansas, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Josephine Victoria "Vicky" Boozman |
| Relations | John Boozman |
| Children | 3 |
| Parents | Mr. and Mrs. Fay Winford Boozman, Jr. |
| Alma mater | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences |
| Occupation | Ophthalmologist |
| Religion | Baptist |
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(1) Former State Senator Boozman's career as the Arkansas Health Department director was cut short by an accident on his family farm near Rogers, Arkansas. |
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(1) Former State Senator Boozman's career as the Arkansas Health Department director was cut short by an accident on his family farm near Rogers, Arkansas.
Fay Winford Boozman, III (November 10, 1946 – March 19, 2005) 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. He was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Arkansas in 1998.
At the time of his death at the age of fifty-eight as a result of a freak accident, Boozman, an ophthalmologist, 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.
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). In 2010, Boozman's brother, John, defeated Lincoln for the same Senate seat he had unsuccessfully run for.
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