English

English Bahasa Indonesia Deutsch Español Français Italiano Nederlands Polski Português Svenska Tiếng Việt Türkçe Русский العربية فارسی ไทย 한국어 中文日本語

File:Ash_Carter_DOD_Secretary_Portrait.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ4806029· pop 42· linked from 498 articles

Ash Carter

Also known as Ashton Baldwin "Ash" Carter, Ashton Baldwin Carter, Ashton B. Carter, Ashton Carter

25th United States Secretary of Defense

OverviewAI-generated

Ashton Carter (1954–2022) was an American politician, physicist, and university teacher. Born in Philadelphia, he served as the United States Secretary of Defense and United States Deputy Secretary of Defense. A member of the Democratic Party, he was educated at Yale College, the University of Edinburgh, and St John's College. Carter held positions 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 at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Carter was a member of 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 spoke English and had two children. He died of natural causes in Boston.

Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Film & TV

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

via TMDB

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

via Wikipedia infobox

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
Award: Presidential Medal of Freedom
Image: Ashton Carter DOD photo.jpg
Number of children: 2

Show 8 more facts

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

Sources (7)

via Wikidata · CC0

~17 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Ashton Baldwin Carter (September 24, 1954 – October 24, 2022) was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States secretary of defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He later served as director of the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.

Carter began his career as a physicist. After a brief experience as an analyst for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, he switched careers to public policy. He joined the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1984 and became chair of the International & Global Affairs faculty. Carter served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy during President Clinton's first term, from 1993 to 1996, responsible for policy regarding the former Soviet states, strategic affairs, and nuclear weapons.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ash Carter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.