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Fred Dalton Thompson (born August 19, 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, character actor and former Republican Senator from Tennessee (now residing in McLean, Virginia),[1] who has announced that he is considering a bid in the 2008 Presidential Election.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a former member of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission and a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, researching national security and intelligence. Thompson is also a public speaker with the Washington Speakers Bureau[3] and is a special program host and senior analyst for ABC News Radio. Thompson publishes a daily blog and podcast on the ABC Radio web site at http://www.abcradio.com.
Fred Thompson was born in Sheffield, Alabama, USA, to Ruth Bradley and Fletcher Thompson. He attended the public schools in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. In 1959, when Thompson was 17 years old, he and Sarah Elizabeth Lindsey married.
Thompson first attended Florence State College and then Memphis State University where he earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy and political science in 1964. At this time, Fred and Sarah Thompson both worked to put Thompson through Vanderbilt and support three children. Thompson went on to earn his J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1967.
Thompson was admitted to the State Bar of Tennessee in 1967 and worked as an assistant U.S. attorney from 1969 to 1972. He was the campaign manager for Republican U.S. Senator Howard Baker's successful re-election campaign in 1972, which led to a close personal friendship with Baker. He later served as co-chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee in its investigation of the Watergate scandal, (1973–1974).
He was responsible for Baker asking one of the questions that is said to have led directly to the downfall of President Richard Nixon—"What did the President know, and when did he know it?" Also, Thompson's voice has become immortalized in recordings of the Watergate proceedings, with him asking the key question, "Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President?"
In the spring of 2005 Thompson concurrently played the role on both the original series and short-lived sister series Law & Order: Trial by Jury. He has also made occasional appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and was in the pilot episode of Conviction.
In 1994, Thompson was elected by the people of Tennessee to finish the remaining two years of Al Gore's unexpired Senate term. Thompson was easily re-elected in 1996 (for the term ending January 3, 2003), defeating Democratic attorney Houston Gordon of Covington, Tennessee.
While in the Senate, Thompson served as the chairman of the Committee on Governmental Affairs from 1997 to 2001. The committee conducted investigations into allegations that China attempted to influence American politics prior to the 1996 elections (See: campaign finance scandal) and January 20 to June 6, 2001. During 1997, Thompson was "...largely stymied" during his 1997 U.S. Senate investigations of both Clinton-Gore and GOP campaign fund-raising activities, more particularly with witnesses for the Thompson investigations declining to testify, claiming the right not to incriminate themselves or simply leaving the United States' jurisdiction.
Senator Thompson voted in favor of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform act as well as the Shays-Meehan bill restricting issue ads.[11] Speaking in early 2007, he offered the opinion that the Campaign Finance Reform law had not worked as expected and that he might come to favor another approach.
On 11 March 2007, Thompson appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss the possibility of a 2008 candidacy for president. The announcement spurred several grassroots draft movements, including a well-organized draft campaign started by a former Thompson political aide in Knoxville, Tennessee. While Thompson has not yet formally announced his intentions, he has said he will "leave the door open."[18] Furthermore, Thompson has stated that he would not be interested in accepting a hypothetical nomination for vice president, explaining "I don't think I would ever want to do that and be in the second position."
A March 23, 2007, Rasmussen Reports poll had him statistically tied with U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, 44 percent to Clinton's 43 percent;[20] A later Fox News poll had Clinton leading 51-34.
A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll released Wednesday, April 11, 2007, indicated that Thompson, although not an announced candidate, had risen to #2, ahead of Arizona Senator John McCain. Among Republicans polled, 29 percent preferred former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, 15 percent favored Thompson, and only 12 percent preferred McCain.-Wikipedia
