Ash Carter

✓ Source-basedstable

25th United States Secretary of Defense

United States PoliticiansLived 1954 to 2022 · aged 68

Compare

Fame56.5

Momentum2.1

Languages25

In century#8,953

Ashton Baldwin Carter 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.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Also inDeutsch

Photos 10

From left, Carter, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and President Barack Obama in 2012

Carter arrives in Herat, Afghanistan, in 2013

Carter's official portrait

Vice President Joe Biden swears in Ash Carter as the 25th defense secretary as Carter's wife, Stephanie, looks on during a private ceremony at the White House.

Awards 6

2025Presidential Medal of Freedom

2019Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun

1988Joseph A. Burton Forum Award

1976Rhodes Scholarship

Fellow of the American Physical Society

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

In their orbit 2

SpouseClayton Spencer

SiblingCynthia DeFelice

Connected to Ash 5

Freeman DysonAlso won Joseph A. Burton Forum Award

James RandiAlso won Joseph A. Burton Forum Award

Lawrence M. KraussAlso won Joseph A. Burton Forum Award

Martin GardnerAlso won Joseph A. Burton Forum Award

Victor WeisskopfAlso won Joseph A. Burton Forum Award

Politicians from United States 1

Alger Hiss56.5

About this person

Country

United States