Where was Frank Carlucci educated from 1947 to 1948?
Frank Carlucci Frank Charles Carlucci III ( ; October 18 , 1930 – June 3 , 2018 ) 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 . Carlucci served in a variety of senior-level governmental positions , including Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Richard Nixon administration , Deputy Director of the CIA in the Jimmy Carter administration , and Deputy Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor in the Reagan administration . Early life . Carlucci was born in Scranton , Pennsylvania , the son of Roxann ( née Bacon ) and Frank Charles Carlucci , Jr. , an insurance broker . His father was of Italian and Swiss descent . His grandfather was from Santomenna in Italy . After graduating from Wyoming Seminary in 1948 , Carlucci attended Princeton University , where he roomed with Donald Rumsfeld . He graduated with an A.B . from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1952 after completing a 153-page long senior thesis titled Two American Businesses in Costa Rica . He then attended Harvard Business School for an M.B.A . in 1954–55 . He was a Naval officer from 1952 until 1954 . He joined the Foreign Service , working for the State Department from 1956 until 1969 . Early career . In 1961 , Carlucci was the second secretary at the United States Embassy in the Congo . During that time , Patrice Lumumba , the first prime minister of independent Congo , was executed in January 1961 during the Congo Crisis . According to subsequently released U.S . government documents , President Dwight D . Eisenhower ordered the CIA to eliminate Lumumba . Minutes of an August 1960 National Security Council meeting confirm that Eisenhower told CIA chief Allen Dulles to eliminate the Congolese leader . The official note taker , Robert H . Johnson , testified to this before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1975 . However , subsequent investigations indicate that Lumumba was ultimately executed by order of political rival Moïse Tshombe of the State of Katanga with Belgian assistance . According to Robert B . Oakley , Carlucci befriended future Prime Minister of the Congo Cyrille Adoula in 1959-1960 when he was a Congolese Member of Parliament . According to James Schlesinger , Adoula began a White House meeting with President John F . Kennedy with the question ( Where is Carlucci? ) . Kennedy first responded Who the hell is Carlucci ? and then sent Dean Rusk to find him . Oakley added that that instance was the beginning of Carluccis meteoric rise ! A fictionalized 2000 biopic of Lumumba , titled Lumumba , and directed by Raoul Peck , portrayed Carlucci as being involved during his service in Congo in the murder of Lumumba . Carlucci furiously denied the claims , and successfully went to court to prevent being named in the film when it was released in the United States . Service in Presidential administrations . In 1969 , when President Nixon persuaded U.S . Rep . Donald Rumsfeld to leave his congressional seat to become director of the Office of Economic Opportunity ( OEO ) , the agency created by Sargent Shriver to fight President Johnsons War on Poverty , Rumsfeld had Carlucci transferred to OEO from the State Department to head up the Community Action Program . Carlucci was Undersecretary of Health , Education and Welfare when Caspar Weinberger was secretary during the Nixon administration . Carlucci became Ambassador to Portugal , and served in this position from 1974 until 1977 . He was remembered in Portugal among the winners of the November 25 Coup dÉtat . The Carlucci American International School of Lisbon , the oldest American school in the Iberian Peninsula , is named for him . Carlucci was Deputy Director of the CIA from 1978 until 1981 , under CIA Director Stansfield Turner . Department of Defense . Carlucci was United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1981 until 1983 . He later served as United States National Security Advisor from 1986 until 1987 , where he appointed Colin Powell , later his successor , as United States Deputy National Security Advisor . Carlucci became United States Secretary of Defense in 1987 , following the resignation of Caspar Weinberger due to his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair . He served as Secretary of Defense until the end of the Reagan administration on January 20 , 1989 . He was notable during the administration for advocating an arms build-up to hasten the end of the Cold War , a policy which Reagan followed . Post-Administration work . Business . Carlucci served as chairman of the Carlyle Group from 1992 until 2003 , and chairman emeritus until 2005 . He 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 . 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 . Carlucci was an advisory board member of G2 Satellite Solutions and the Chairman Emeritus of Nortel Networks . Organizations . Carlucci was affiliated with the Project for the New American Century ( PNAC ) , a conservative think tank . He was Chairman Emeritus of the US-Taiwan Business Council having been Chairman from 1999 to 2002 ; he was succeeded in 2003 by William Cohen . Carlucci was a member of the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation and was founding co-chair of the Advisory Board for RANDs Center for Middle East Public Policy . He was also a member of the Honorary Board of the Drug Policy Alliance , a group which advocates drug legalization . Personal life and death . Carlucci was married to Billie Jean Anthony from 1954 until the couple divorced in 1974 . They had two children . Carlucci was later married to Marcia McMillan Myers from 1976 until his death . They had one daughter . Carlucci died on June 3 , 2018 , from complications of Parkinsons disease , at his home in McLean , Virginia , at the age of 87 . Honors . - Grand-Cross of the Order of Prince Henry , Portugal ( November 24 , 2003 ) External links . - Foreign Service Journal article on his Lifetime Contributions to American Diplomacy Award . - Department of Defense biography