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Ashton Carter was an American politician, physicist, and university teacher. He served as the United States Secretary of Defense and the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense. His career included roles at Harvard University, the United States Department of Defense, Fermilab, and Brookhaven National Laboratory. He was affiliated with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Born in Philadelphia in 1954, Carter was educated at Yale College, the University of Edinburgh, and St John's College. He was a member of the Democratic Party and belonged to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He received the Rhodes Scholarship, the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He died in Boston in 2022 from natural causes. He spoke English and had two children.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for
- VICE Special Report: A World in Disarray — Self2017
- StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson — Self2015
- Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest2014
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Key facts
- President
- Barack Obama
- Deputy
- Robert O. Work
- Preceded by
- Chuck Hagel
- Succeeded by
- Jim Mattis
- Secretary
- Leon Panetta Chuck Hagel
- 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.
- Party
- Democratic
- Spouses
- Clayton Spencer ( divorced ) Stephanie DeLeeuw
- Relations
- Cynthia DeFelice (sister)
- Education
- Yale University ( BA ) St John's College, Oxford ( DPhil )
- Thesis
- Hard processes in perturbative QCD (1979)
- Doctoral advisor
- Christopher Llewellyn Smith
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Carter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Place of death
- Boston
- Occupation
- physicist
- Employer
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Ashton Carter DOD photo.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- Ashton Carter
- date of birth
- 1954-09-24
- member of
- Phi Beta Kappa Society
- name in native language
- Ashton Carter
- P10632
- Ash Carter
- date of death
- 2022-10-24
- manner of death
- natural causes
- affiliation string
- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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