Ashton b carter died
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Ashton Carter
Prior offices
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
U.S. Secretary of Defense
Personal
Ashton Baldwin "Ash" Carter was the secretary of defense under the Obama administration.[1] Carter was confirmed by the Senate on February 12, 2015. Carter was the fourth secretary of defense to serve in President Barack Obama's Cabinet.[2][3]
Carter previously served as the deputy secretary of defense from 2011 to 2013, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics from 2009 to 2011, and the assistant secretary of defense for international security policy from 1993 to 1996.[4]
Carter died on October 24, 2022.[5]
Biography
Carter graduated from Abington High School in 1972. He earned his bachelor's degree in history and physics from Yale University in 1976. As a Rhodes scholar, he attended Oxford University and earned a doctorate in theoretical physics in 1979.[6]
After leaving Oxford, Carter "held positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Congressional Office of Tech
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Ash Carter
American government official (1954–2022)
Ash Carter | |
|---|---|
Official portrait, 2015 | |
| In office February 17, 2015 – January 20, 2017 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy | Robert O. Work |
| Preceded by | Chuck Hagel |
| Succeeded by | Jim Mattis |
| In office October 6, 2011 – December 4, 2013 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Secretary | |
| Preceded by | William J. Lynn III |
| Succeeded by | Christine Fox (acting) |
| In office April 27, 2009 – October 5, 2011 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | John J. Young Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Frank Kendall III |
| In office June 30, 1993 – September 14, 1996 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Stephen Hadley |
| Succeeded by | Jack Dyer Crouch II (2001) |
| Born | Ashton Baldwin Carter (1954-09-24)September 24, 1954 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | October 24, 2022(2022-10-24) (aged 68) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic[1] |
| Spouses | |
| Relations | Cynthia DeFelice (sister) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | |
| Signature | |
| Thesis | H
Ashton Carter (1954-2022)The following is excerpted from the New York Times obituary article of October 25, 2022 by Clay Risen. Ashton B. Carter, who harnessed his training in theoretical physics and knowledge of nuclear weapons to climb the leadership ranks at the Pentagon, culminating in two years as secretary of defense under President Barack Obama, a position he used to further open the military to female and transgender service members, died at the age of 68 of a heart attack at his home in Boston. In 1976, Carter received a B.A. with a double-major of physics and medieval history from Yale College, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He wrote two senior theses: one on the use of Latin in 12th-century Flanders, and another called “Quarks, Charm and the Psi Particle,” the latter of which was published in “Yale Scientific” in 1975. One of his professors was so impressed by Carter that he hired him as an experimental research associate at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois for summer research in 1975 (where he worked on quark research). Carter was also Copyright ©cowroof.pages.dev 2025 |