Mike Pompeo
Politician, diplomat and former Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo is an American lawyer, politician and diplomat who led the Central Intelligence Agency and then the State Department. He is the author of Never Give an Inch.
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About Mike Pompeo
Michael Richard Pompeo was born in Orange, California, in 1963. He finished at West Point in 1986 and then served as an Army officer. He then went to Harvard Law School. After working as a lawyer, he became an entrepreneur in the aerospace and oilfield industries. He won election to the US House of Representatives in 2010 and represented Kansas's 4th district until 2017. He served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2017 to 2018, and then as the 70th US Secretary of State from 2018 to 2021. He has also been a distinguished fellow at Hudson Institute. His book in our catalog is Never Give an Inch.