Brad Rogers Carson was born on March 11,1967 and is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Oklahoma who served as the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness from 2015 to 2016.
34 Facts About Brad Carson
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Brad Carson served as Under Secretary of the Army from 2014 to 2015 and as General Counsel of the Army from 2012 to 2014.
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Brad Carson has been a professor of public policy for the last two years at the University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.
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Brad Carson is the only person to have voted on the authorization of the Iraq War in Congress and to have subsequently fought in it.
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Brad Carson's father worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Brad Carson studied at Jenks High School and Baylor University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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Brad Carson became the first student at Baylor in 55 years to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.
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Brad Carson attended the University of Oklahoma College of Law, graduating at the top of his class in 1994.
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In 1997 Brad Carson was selected as a White House Fellow, where he was assigned to The Pentagon as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense.
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Brad Carson was a member of the conservative Democratic Blue Dog Coalition.
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Brad Carson served on the Transportation Committee, the Natural Resources Committee, and the Small Business Committee.
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On October 10,2002, Brad Carson was among the 81 House Democrats who voted in favor of authorizing the invasion of Iraq.
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In 2004, Brad Carson did not seek reelection to the House, and ran for the open US Senate seat that was being vacated by retiring Republican Don Nickles.
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Brad Carson easily won the Democratic primary, and after a tough campaign, lost the election to Republican Tom Coburn, his predecessor in the House.
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The Weekly Standard called him "The Perfect Democrat" After the election, Brad Carson wrote an article for The New Republic which was the subject of much discussion.
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Brad Carson was succeeded in the House by fellow Democrat Dan Boren.
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Brad Carson indicated that he had no immediate plans to seek political office, and, in January 2005, he accepted a semester-long teaching fellowship specializing in US politics at Harvard University.
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In December 2008, Brad Carson left his post at Cherokee Nation Businesses to deploy to Iraq as an Intelligence Officer in the US Navy.
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Brad Carson was officer-in-charge of weapons intelligence teams embedded with the US Army's 84th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion in the nine southern provinces of Iraq; the teams worked with EOD teams at seven bases and investigated bomb sites, caches, smuggling routes, and other activities related to improvised explosive devices.
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In January 2010, Brad Carson assumed a position as professor of business and law at the University of Tulsa, and as director of the National Energy Policy Institute, a non-profit energy policy organization funded by billionaire George Kaiser's family foundation.
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Brad Carson has contributed journalism to The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, Blueprint, and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
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In 2010, Brad Carson contributed to a symposium issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, in which he was one of ten writers discussing the future of progressive political thought and politics.
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Brad Carson is the author of several other works, including a guide to federal appellate practice, a work co-authored with Judge Robert Bacharach.
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Brad Carson had met Barack Obama in 2004 when they were both nominees of the Democratic Party for open seats in the United States Senate.
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Brad Carson endorsed Obama in 2006 for the 2008 presidential election.
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Brad Carson served as Obama's personal representative in the approval of candidates for delegates from Oklahoma to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
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Brad Carson announced shortly thereafter that he would seek to win back his former seat.
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On September 14,2011, President Barack Obama nominated Brad Carson to serve as the General Counsel of the United States Department of the Army.
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On January 6,2014, President Obama nominated Carson to be Under Secretary of the Army, to replace Joseph W Westphal, whom the president had nominated to be the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
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On February 12,2014, Brad Carson was confirmed by the United States Senate and he was sworn in as the 31st Under Secretary of the Army on March 27,2014.
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Brad Carson supervised the development and submission of the Army's budget, which exceeded $150 billion.
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Brad Carson served as the acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness from April 2015 until April 2016, resigning while still awaiting Senate formal approval.
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Brad Carson oversaw the historic opening of all combat positions to women.
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Brad Carson assisted in the reformation of the military retirement system for the first time in 70 years set policy transgender servicemembers.