Mike Pompeo Biography
Michael Richard Pompeo, popularly known as Mike Pompeo was a corporate lawyer who started a successful aerospace business. Mike was elected to Congress as a Tea party Republican from Kansas in 2010. Recently, he declared that the U.S. would not soften its stance on North Korea ahead of planned talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Trump.
Mike Pompeo Age|Nationality
He was born on 30 December 1963 and is therefore currently 55 years old as of 2019. Being born in Orange, California, Pompeo is of American nationality and of White ethnicity. Also, he is of Italian descent.
Mike Pompeo Spouse|Dating|Is He Married or Divorced?
In 1986, he got married to Leslie Libert. The couple, however, got separated and later divorced. Afterward, Mike remarried Susan Pompeo who together they have one son, Nicholas.
Mike Pompeo Family
Pompeo was born in Orange, California, the son of Dorothy (née Mercer) and Wayne Pompeo. His father was of Italian ancestry; his paternal great-grandparents were born in Caramanico Terme, Abruzzo, and emigrated to the United States in 1907.
Mike Pompeo Education
He graduated in 1982 from Los Amigos High School in Fountain Valley, California, where he played power forward on the basketball team. Pompeo graduated first in 1986 in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he majored in engineering management.
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.
In 1994, he received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School where he served as one of 78 editors of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and on the 81-member board of editors of the Harvard Law Review. He worked as a lawyer for the law firm Williams & Connolly in Washington after graduating.
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Mike Pompeo Career
He moved to Wichita, Kansas in 1998. Mike and three other West Point friends, Brian Bulatao, Ulrich Brechbuhl, and Michael Stradinger, acquired three aircraft-part manufacturers there (Aero Machine, Precision Profiling, B&B Machine) and in St. Louis (Advance Tool & Die), renaming the entity Thayer Aerospace after West Point superintendent Sylvanus Thayer.
Venture funding for the private organization included a 2% investment from Koch Industries as well as Dallas-based Cardinal Investment and Bain Capital (Brechbuhl worked for Bain at the time). Brechbuhl and Stradinger left the company shortly after it was founded, but Pompeo and Bulatao continued until 2006. When Mike became head of the CIA in 2017, he named Bulatao the agency’s chief operating officer.
He sold his interest in 2006 in Nex-Tech Aerospace, formerly known as Thayer Aerospace to Highland Capital Management, which had clients including Lockheed Martin, Gulfstream Aerospace, Cessna Aircraft, Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems, and Raytheon Aircraft.
Afterward, he became president of Sentry International, an oilfield equipment manufacturer that was also a partner of Koch Industries.
Mike Pompeo Religion
Mike is affiliated with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, he serves as a local church deacon and teaches Sunday school.
In 2014, he told a church group that Christians needed to know that Jesus Christ as our savior is truly the only solution for our world. In a talk at a church, back in 2015, Pompeo said that politics is a never-ending struggle … until the Rapture.
Mike Pompeo Net worth
His estimated net worth in 2014 was approximately $ 345,000. As of 2019, his estimated net worth is currently under review and will be updated as soon as possible. Enough information including his property, cars he owns, luxuries, houses, the monthly/yearly salary are also not given and will; be updated as soon as we get to hear from him or from other relevant sources.
Mike Pompeo Trivia
Mike was among the strongest critics of Hillary Clinton’s handling of the Benghazi, serving at the time as a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
He has taken some stance that a lot of people feel are very controversial including his support for the surveillance of Americans, his favoring of torture, and his idea that a death sentence should be passed on Edward Snowden.
Before finally coming to support Donald Trump in the build-up to the 2016 presidential election, Pompeo was a supporter of Marco Rubio who ended third in the race before he finally bowed out.
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