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• Fred Thompson is an American lawyer, politician, and actor who represented the state of Tennessee from 1994 to 2002 and ran in the 2008 Republican nomination for President of the United States. He was minority counsel to aid the Republican senators on the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973 and worked as a lobbyist in Washington D.C. from 1975 to 2002.

  Thompson is scheduled to deliver the keynote address on September 2, 2008 at the Republican National Convention.Dailypress.com: President Bush to address GOP convention tonight (September 2, 2008)

• Fast Facts

  1. Birth Name: Freddie Dalton Thompson
  2. Born: August 19, 1942
  3. Birthplace: Sheffield, Alabama
  4. Height: 6'6"
  5. Spouse: Jeri Kehn Thompson
  6. Graduated from Vanderbilt University Law School
  7. Served in the US Senate from 1994 to 2002
  8. Party: Republican
  9. January 22, 2008: Thompson dropped out of the presidential race

• Acting Career

  In numerous film and television roles, Thompson is often cast as authoritative or governmental characters. He played District Attorney Arthur Branch in the NBC drama Law & Order and its spin-off series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2002 to 2007 and President Ulysses S. Grant in the HBO drama Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

• Notable Films

  1. 1987: No Way Out
  2. 1990: The Hunt for Red October
  3. 1990: Die Hard 2
  4. 1993: In the Line of Fire
  5. 1993: Born Yesterday

• Related Pages on Mahalo

  Jeri Kehn Thompson | Law & Order | Election 2008 | 2008 Republican Convention | Fred Thompson Convention Speech 2008 | Republican Party | Richard Nixon | John McCain | George W. Bush | Watergate | U.S. Senate

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