Tucker Carlson
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Carlson in 2013
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Tucker McNear Carlson May 16, 1969 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Education | St. George's School |
| Alma mater | Trinity College |
| Occupation | News anchor, commentator, pundit, and columnist |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Susan Andrews |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent(s) | Dick Carlson |
| Website | Dailycaller.com |
Tucker McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American political news correspondent for Fox News. He has hosted Tucker Carlson Tonight since November 14, 2016, each weeknight at 9:00 PM ET. He is co-founder and former editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller website and formerly co-hosted CNN's Crossfire and MSNBC's Tucker.
Carlson was born in San Francisco, California, the elder son of Richard Warner Carlson, a former Los Angeles news anchor and U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles, who was also president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and director of Voice of America. His mother is the former Lisa McNear Lombardi, and his stepmother is the former Patricia Caroline Swanson, an heiress to the Swanson frozen-food fortune (daughter of Gilbert Carl Swanson and granddaughter of Carl A. Swanson) and a niece of Sen. J. William Fulbright. He has a brother, Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson. Per a profile in People magazine, "Tucker and younger brother Buckley ... were raised in La Jolla, Calif., by their father and stepmother, Patricia ... after their mother left home when Tucker was 6."While living in La Jolla, CA, Tucker briefly attended La Jolla Country Day School before relocating to the East Coast.
He attended St. George's School, a boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island. After graduation, he studied history at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and graduated in 1992 with a B.A. in History.
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