page_title: Mike Pompeo
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Mike Pompeo / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo poses for a photo with his wife Susan and son Nicholas in his outer office at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 2018. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
context_page_description: Michael Richard Pompeo is an American politician, diplomat, businessman, and attorney who, since April 2018, has been serving as 70th United States secretary of state. He is a former United States Army officer and was Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from January 2017 until April 2018.
  Pompeo was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017, representing Kansas's 4th congressional district. He was a Kansas representative on the Republican National Committee and member of the Italian American Congressional Delegation. Pompeo is also a member of the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party.
  President Donald Trump nominated Pompeo as secretary of state in March 2018, with Pompeo succeeding Rex Tillerson after his dismissal. Pompeo was confirmed by the Senate on April 26, 2018, in a 57–42 vote and was sworn in the same day.
context_section_description: Pompeo married Leslie Libert in 1986. The couple later divorced. He then married Susan Justice Mostrous. They have one son, Nicholas.
  Pompeo is affiliated with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Pompeo served as a local church deacon from 2007 to 2009 and taught Sunday school.
  In 2014, Pompeo told a church group Christians needed to "know that Jesus Christ as our savior is truly the only solution for our world". In 2015 in a talk at a church, Pompeo said that "politics is a never-ending struggle ... until the Rapture."
caption: Mike Pompeo (center) with wife Susan and son Nicholas in 2018
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