Freddie Dalton Fred Thompson August 19 1942 November 1 2015 credited as Fred Thompson and Fred Dalton Thompson is an American politician actor attorney lobbyist columnist and radio host He served as a Republican US Senator from Tennessee from 1994 through 2003 He served as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board at the United States Department of State was a member of the USChina Economic and Security Review Commission a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute specializing in national security and intelligence As an actor he has appeared in a large number of movies and television shows He has frequently portrayed governmental figures In the final months of his US Senate term in 2002 he joined the cast of the longrunning NBC television series Law Order playing Manhattan District Attorney Arthur Branch In May 2007 he took a break from acting in order to run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination In 2009 he returned to acting with a guest appearance on television series and costarred with Brian Dennehy in the movie Alleged about the Scopes Monkey Trial From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
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