Ashton Carter

Ashton Baldwin "Ash" Carter (September 24, 1954 – October 24, 2022) was an American politician, military civillian official and academic. He was the United States Secretary of Defense from 2015 to 2017. He is also a physicist and a former Harvard University professor of Science and International Affairs. He was nominated by President Barack Obama, and confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 93–5, to replace Chuck Hagel as the US Secretary of Defense.

Carter died from a heart attack at his home in Boston, Massachusetts on October 24, 2022, one month after his 68th birthday.

References

Other websites
 Preventive Defense Project 
 Ashton B. Carter  expert profile at the Belfer Center of Harvard University

 Collected columns at Foreign Affairs magazine

 Department of Defense biography

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