Fay Winford Boozman III (November 10, 1946 – March 19, 2005) was an American

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and politician who served as a member of the

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from 1995 to 1999. Boozman was born in 1946, the son of Marie Nicholas and

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master sergeant Fay Winford Boozman Jr. He attended

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and the

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, receiving a degree in ophthalmology. Boozman and his brother

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founded an eye clinic. He was married to Vickey and had three children. He served in the

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from 1971 to 1977, becoming a major in February 1977 and serving in the

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. He was elected to the Arkansas Senate in 1994 from the 33rd district. Boozman was Arkansas' Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in 1998. During the campaign, Boozman caused controversy with his comments about rape, claiming that women rarely became pregnant after being raped due to a hormone he described as "God's little protective shield". He ultimately lost to Representative

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by 13 points. His younger brother, John, would go on to defeat Lincoln to win the Senate seat in 2010. In 1999, Boozman was named director of the

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, a post he held until his death in 2005. Boozman died on March 19, 2005, following an accident at his farm in Rogers. After his death, the College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science, from which he graduated, was renamed after him.

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