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Fred Thompson
Sign in to saveAlso known as Freddie Dalton Thompson, Fred Dalton Thompson
American politician and actor (1942–2015)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 44
Top works
- Grillin' with Gas
- Williams Sonoma Grill Master The Ultimate Arsenal of Back to Basics Recipes for the Grill
- Fred's Favorite Poems
- Scratchy and the Tick Pirates
- It's My Story
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1949-04-03
Discography
- Morris On1972
- Henry the Human Fly1972
- Strict Tempo!1981
- Hand of Kindness1983
- Across a Crowded Room1985
- Daring Adventures1986
- Amnesia1988
- Rumor and Sigh1991
- Mirror Blue1994
- Twangin’ ’n’ a-Traddin’1995
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 249
- Total plays
- 1,738
Tags
Former Senator from Tennessee, actor on "Law and Order" and now a radio talk show host <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Fred+Thompson">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 52,658x
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 52,089x
- Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
· 1989 · cited 45,482x
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 42,300x
- Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 32,046x
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Quotes
- “I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.”
- “I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.”
- “The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.”
- “This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.”
- “We can't forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there, he clearly had had WMD. He clearly had had the beginnings of a nuclear program.”
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Harlan Mathews
- Succeeded by
- Lamar Alexander
- Born
- Frederick Fletcher Dalton Thompson , ( 1942-08-19 ) August 19, 1942, Sheffield, Alabama , U.S.
- Died
- November 1, 2015 (2015-11-01) (aged 73), Nashville, Tennessee , U.S.
- Party
- Republican
- Spouses
- Sarah Knestrick ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1959 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1985 ) Jeri Kehn ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2002 )
- Education
- University of Memphis ( BA ), Vanderbilt University ( JD )
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Encyclopedic overview
Frederick Fletcher Dalton Thompson (August 19, 1942 – November 1, 2015) was an American politician, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, actor, and radio personality. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States senator from Tennessee from 1994 to 2003. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the Republican Party presidential primaries for the 2008 United States presidential election.
He chaired the International Security Advisory Board at the U.S. Department of State, was a member of the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a visiting fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fred Thompson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.