KT McFarland
| K. T. McFarland | |
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McFarland in 2016
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United States Ambassador to Singapore Expected Nominee |
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Taking office TBD |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Succeeding | Kirk Wagar |
| Deputy National Security Advisor | |
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Assumed office January 20, 2017 Serving with Dina Powell |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Avril Haines |
| Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs | |
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In office December 1983 – November 1984 |
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| President | Ronald Reagan |
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Kathleen Troia July 22, 1951 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Alan R. McFarland |
| Children | 5 (3 as mother, 2 as stepmother) |
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Kathleen Troia "K.T." McFarland (born July 22, 1951) is the Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump. On April 9, 2017, it was reported that she would soon be leaving this post and be nominated to be the next United States Ambassador to Singapore.
McFarland served previously as a staff member on the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) in the 1970s and a staff member at the Defense Department in the 1980s. McFarland ran unsuccessfully for the Republican Party nomination in the United States Senate election in New York, 2006, then was a Fox News national security analyst and a contributor to its website opinion page in the 2010s.
McFarland was born Kathleen Troia on July 22, 1951, in Madison, Wisconsin. Her father was a train dispatcher for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The oldest of four siblings, she grew up in Madison. She would later say that watching Disney heroines overcome great obstacles inspired her towards believing that women could achieve what they wanted to.
Troia attended Madison West High School, graduating from there in 1969.
McFarland (known then as Troia) matriculated at George Washington University as located in Washington, D.C. Looking for a part-time job and possessed of strong typing skills, she was hired at the White House during the Nixon administration and assigned to the night-time typing pool for Henry Kissinger's U.S. National Security Council staff. This soon led to her typing the President's Daily Brief.
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