27 Facts About Frank Carlucci

Frank Charles Carlucci III was an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.

Frank Carlucci was the first Italian American to serve in that position.

Frank Carlucci was an officer in the US Navy from 1952 to 1954.

Frank Carlucci joined the US Foreign Service and worked for the US State Department from 1956 to 1969.

In 1961, Frank Carlucci was the second secretary at the US Embassy in the Congo.

Frank Carlucci furiously denied the claims and successfully went to court to prevent his being named in the film when it was released in the United States.

In 1969, when US President Richard Nixon persuaded USRepresentative Donald Rumsfeld to leave his seat to become the director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, the agency created by Sargent Shriver to fight Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, Rumsfeld had Frank Carlucci transferred to OEO from the State Department to head up the Community Action Program.

Frank Carlucci was Undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare when Caspar Weinberger was secretary during the Nixon administration.

Frank Carlucci became Ambassador to Portugal and served in that position from 1974 to 1977.

Frank Carlucci was remembered in Portugal among the winners of the coup of 25 November 1975.

Frank Carlucci was Deputy Director of the CIA from 1978 to 1981, under Director Stansfield Turner.

Frank Carlucci was United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1981 to 1983.

Frank Carlucci served as United States National Security Advisor from 1986 to 1987, where he appointed Colin Powell, later his successor, as US Deputy National Security Advisor.

Frank Carlucci became US Secretary of Defense in 1987 after Caspar Weinberger resigned for being involved in the Iran-Contra Affair.

Frank Carlucci served in that position until the end of the Reagan administration, on January 20,1989.

Frank Carlucci was notable during the administration for advocating an arms build-up to hasten the end of the Cold War, a policy that Reagan followed.

Frank Carlucci served as chairman of the Carlyle Group from 1992 to 2003 and chairman emeritus until 2005.

Frank Carlucci had business interests in the following companies: Ashland Global Holdings, General Dynamics, Westinghouse, Neurogen, CB Commercial Real Estate, Nortel, BDM International, Quaker Oats, and Kaman.

Frank Carlucci was at one time a director of the private security firm Wackenhut and was a co-founder and senior member of the Frontier Group, a private-equity investment firm.

Frank Carlucci was an advisory board member of G2 Satellite Solutions and the Chairman Emeritus of Nortel Networks.

Frank Carlucci was affiliated with the Project for the New American Century, a conservative think tank.

Frank Carlucci was Chairman Emeritus of the US-Taiwan Business Council after he had been Chairman from 1999 to 2002; he was succeeded in 2003 by William Cohen.

Frank Carlucci was a member of the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation and was a founding co-chair of the Advisory Board for RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy.

Frank Carlucci was a member of the Honorary Board of the Drug Policy Alliance, a group that advocates drug legalization.

Frank Carlucci was married to Billie Jean Anthony from 1954 until the couple divorced in 1974.

Frank Carlucci was later married to Marcia McMillan Myers from 1976 until his death.

Frank Carlucci died on June 3,2018, from complications of Parkinson's disease, at his home in McLean, Virginia, at the age of 87.