What is Richard Carmona?
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder |birth_name = Richard Henry Carmona |image = Richard Carmona.jpg |office = [[Surgeon General of the United States]] |president = [[George W. Bush]] |term_start = August 5, 2002 |term_end = July 31, 2006 |predecessor = [[Kenneth P. Moritsugu|Kenneth Moritsugu]] {{small|(Acting)}} |successor = [[Kenneth P. Moritsugu|Kenneth Moritsugu]] {{small|(Acting)}} |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|11|22}} |birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]] {{small|(Before 2011)}}<br>[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] {{small|(2011–present)}} |alma_mater = [[Bronx Community College]], [[CUNY]] <small>([[Associate of Arts|A.A.]])</small><br>[[University of California, San Francisco]] <small>(BS, MD)</small><br>[[University of Arizona]] <small>([[Master of Public Health|M.P.H.]])</small> }} '''Richard Henry Carmona''' (born November 22, 1949)<ref name=biography/> is an American physician, policeofficer, [[public health]]administrator, and politician. He was the 17th [[Surgeon General of the United States]]. Carmona was chosen as Surgeon General by [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] in 2002. He left office at the end of July 2006 at the end of his term. After leaving, Carmona was highly critical of the [[George W. Bush Administration|Bush administration]]. In August 2006, Carmona returned home to [[Tucson, Arizona]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Paul L. |last=Allen |title=Chicago proud one of its own |url=http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/21262.php |publisher=Tucson Citizen |date=August 3, 2006 |access-date=October 31, 2012 |archive-date=March 3, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080303164800/http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/21262.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> In November 2011, he said he would try to become the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]]'s cho