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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on national security matters such as denuclearization of North Korea, Ukraine, and the summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.

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Michael Richard Pompeo (born December 30, 1963) is an American politician, attorney and former United States Army officer serving as the 70th and current United States Secretary of State since 2018. He previously was Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2017 to 2018 and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Kansas’s 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2017. He is a member of the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party.^[3] He was a Kansas representative on the Republican National Committee and member of the Italian American Congressional Delegation.

President Donald Trump nominated Pompeo as United States Secretary of State in March 2018, with Pompeo succeeding Rex Tillersonafter his dismissal.^[4] Pompeo was confirmed by the Senate on April 26, 2018, in a 57–42 vote^[5][6][7] and was sworn in the same day.^[8]

Education and early career

Pompeo was born in Orange, California, the son of Dorothy (née Mercer) and Wayne Pompeo.^[9][10] His father was of Italian ancestry; his paternal great-grandparents were born in Caramanico Terme, Abruzzo.^[11] In 1982, Pompeo graduated from Los Amigos High School in Fountain Valley, California, where he played power forward on the basketball team.^[12] In 1986, Pompeo graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point where he majored in engineering management.^[13][14]

From 1986 to 1991, Pompeo served in the U.S. Army as an Armor Branch Officer with the 2nd Squadron, 7th Cavalry in the 4th Infantry Division, reaching the rank of Captain.^{[2][15][16][17]}

In 1994, Pompeo received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he served as one of 78 editors of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy,^[18][19] and on the 81-member Board of Editors^[20] of the Harvard Law Review.^[2] After graduating, he worked as a lawyer for the law firm Williams & Connolly in Washington.^[21]

Business career

In 1998, Pompeo moved to Wichita when he and three other West Point graduate friends, Brian Bulatao, Ulrich Brechbuhl, and Michael Stradinger, acquired three aircraft part makers companies in Wichita (Aero Machine, Precision Profiling, B&B Machine) and one in St. Louis (Advance Tool & Die) and renamed it Thayer Aerospace (after West Point superintendent Sylvanus Thayer).^[22][23][24] Venture funding for the private organization included a 2% investment from Koch Industries^[25][26] as well as Dallas-based Cardinal Investment and Bain Capital (Brechbuhl worked for Bain at the time).^[27][22] Brechbuhl and Stradinger left the company shortly after it was founded but Pompeo and Bulatao continued until 2006. In 2017, when Pompeo became head of the CIA, he named Bulatao as chief operating officer.^[23]

In 2006, he sold his interest in Thayer to Highland Capital Management. The announcement said clients of the firm included “Lockheed Martin, Gulfstream Aerospace, Cessna Aircraft, Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems, Raytheon Aircraft and others”.^[28] It was renamed Nex-Tech Aerospace.

Pompeo then became president of Sentry International, an oilfield equipment company, which was also a partner of Koch Industries.^[25]