Brad Carson
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Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Acting |
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In office April 2, 2015 – April 8, 2016 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Jessica Wright |
| United States Undersecretary of the Army | |
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In office March 28, 2014 – June 30, 2015 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Joseph W. Westphal |
| Succeeded by | Eric Fanning Acting |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 2nd district |
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In office January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Tom Coburn |
| Succeeded by | Dan Boren |
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March 11, 1967 Winslow, Arizona, United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Julie Carson |
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Baylor University Trinity College, Oxford University of Oklahoma College of Law |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
Brad Rogers Carson (born March 11, 1967) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Oklahoma who served as the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness from 2015 to 2016. In that role, he was, according to the New York Times, the "architect" of a number of historic reforms. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005. He also served as Undersecretary of the Army from 2014-2015 and as General Counsel of the Army from 2012-2014. Carson is currently a senior advisor at the Boston Consulting Group.
Carson was born in Winslow, Arizona. His father worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the family moved around Indian reservations in Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina and Kansas. As a teenager, Carson moved back to Oklahoma, where his family had deep roots in the historic Cherokee Nation, of which Carson is an enrolled member.
Carson was a top student at Jenks High School and won a National Merit Scholarship to attend Baylor University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He became the first student at Baylor in 75 years to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. As a Rhodes Scholar, Carson went to Trinity College, Oxford, and earned a second B.A. (which became an M.A. a few years later) in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. He attended the University of Oklahoma College of Law, graduating at the top of his class in 1994. According to The Almanac of American Politics, Carson had originally intended to attend Yale Law School, only to change his mind while at Oxford.
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