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Here’s a look at the life of Mike Pompeo, former US secretary of state and director of the
Birth date: December 30, 1963
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Birth place: Orange, California
Birth name: Michael Richard Pompeo
Father: Wayne Pompeo, machinist
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Mother: Dorothy (Mercer) Pompeo
Marriages: Susan (Mostrous) Pompeo (date unavailable publicly-present); Leslie (Libert) Pompeo (1986-1997, divorced)
Children: with Susan Pompeo: Nicholas
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Education: United States Military Academy, West Point, B.S., 1986; Harvard Law School, J.D., 1994
Military service: US Army, 1986-1991, Captain
Religion: Christian/ Presbyterian
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First person to have served as both CIA director and secretary of state.
Graduated first in his class at West Point Military Academy.
Pompeo says he loves .
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Served as a deacon and Sunday School teacher at his church in Kansas.
1986-1989 – US Army officer in charge of patrolling the border between and Czechoslovakia during the Cold War.
1994-1996 – Tax litigator at the the Washington, DC law firm of Williams & Connolly.
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1998 – Co-founds Thayer Aerospace, an aerospace manufacturing company.
2006-2010 – Serves as president of Sentry International, a manufacturing company that produces oil drilling equipment.
January 3, 2011-January 23, 2017 – Serves as the Congressman for Kansas’ 4th District. He is reelected three times.
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2014 – Is appointed to the House Select Committee to investigate the
January 16, 2016 – Arguing for a “fundamental upgrade to America’s surveillance capabilities,” he co-authors an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal with David B. Rifkin Jr., stating, “Congress should pass a law reestablishing collection of all metadata, and combining it with publicly available financial and lifestyle information in a comprehensive, searchable database.”
November 18, 2016 – announces Pompeo’s nomination to lead the CIA.
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January 23, 2017 – , and sworn in as head of the CIA.
March 13, 2018 – Trump announces Pompeo’s nomination to replace as the next secretary of state.
April 18, 2018 – Trump announces via Twitter that Pompeo visited North Korea over weekend and met with leader in Pyongyang.
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April 26, 2018-January 20, 2021 – Serves as the 70th US secretary of state.
May 7-10, 2018 – Pompeo heads back to Pyongyang to finalize the agenda for the upcoming summit between the United States and the Korean Peninsula. Three – Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang Duk, also known as Tony Kim – are freed and arrive back at Joint Base Andrews with Pompeo.
May 30, 2018 – in New York ahead of the proposed summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Kim Yong Chol is the most senior North Korean official to visit the United States in 18 years.
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June 12, 2018 – , marking the first meeting between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader.
July 9, 2018 – and meets with
October 7, 2018 – , in preparation for a second summit between Trump and Kim.
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October 16, 2018 – Two weeks after the disappearance of journalist Pompeo visits Saudi Arabia to meet with and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. any knowledge of what happened to Khashoggi as reports begin to filter out that the journalist was killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul during a botched interrogation.
November 27, 2018 – In an for the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration’s support for Saudi Arabia in light of the outrage over the killing of Khashoggi. Pompeo stresses the need for strong US-Saudi ties to counter the regional threats posed by Iran.
January 9, 2019 – and meets with Iraqi officials.
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January 22, 2019 – Less than a week after a deadly attack in Syria, to the World Economic Forum. He says, “It should not go unnoticed that we’ve also defeated the ISIS caliphate in Syria and Iraq alongside more than six dozen nations in the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS.”
June 13, 2019 – saying that the assessment is based on intelligence.
July 7, 2019 – In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, , the Commission on Unalienable Rights. The committee will examine the definition of human rights. Pompeo says the phrase has grown vague since the adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
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September 27, 2019 – for failure to produce documents relating to Trump and associates reported efforts to pressure Ukraine into assisting with Trump’s reelection.
October 2, 2019 – During a news conference in Italy, in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate .
January 24, 2020 – A reporter for National Public Radio says that Pompeo – and Pompeo refused to answer – whether he owed former an apology. The alleged incident takes place after the taping of an interview that aired on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
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May 6, 2020 – Pompeo says the US does of the , despite originally claiming that there was “enormous evidence” .
May 15, 2020 – Trump fires State Department inspector general Steve Linick after Pompeo recommends Linick be removed. Days later, Pompeo tells The Washington Post that because the independent watchdog was “undermining” the department and wasn’t performing in a way that the top US diplomat wanted him to.
July 31, 2020 – Pompeo , to turn over documents related to the Bidens and Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.
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August 25, 2020 – Representative Joaquin Castro, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, The decision to speak to the political convention in prerecorded remarks from Jerusalem breaks with longstanding precedent of sitting secretaries of state avoiding partisan politics, particularly while abroad.
September 18, 2020 – after the State Department turned over more than 16,000 pages of documents related to the Bidens and Burisma Holdings.
January 19, 2021 – With one day left in his tenure as secretary of state, ,” including multiculturalism, saying “they’re not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker,” he writes.
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January 26, 2021 – Hudson Institute announces that Pompeo has joined as a fellow.
April 16, 2021 – The State Department’s independent watchdog finds that Pompeo and his wife, Susan, – from ordering gifts to booking salon appointments and taking care of the family dog.
June 15, 2021 – . Champion American Values PAC (CAVPAC) will “help Republicans take back majorities” in the House of Representatives and the Senate and build conservative state legislatures and governorships, Pompeo says in a statement.
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August 9, 2022 – Pompeo according to US Representative Zoe Lofgren.
January 24, 2023 – Pompeo’s memoir “Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love” is published.
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