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{{Short description|American politician (1930–2018)}}
{{for|the Florida politician|Frank Carlucci (Florida politician)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Frank Carlucci
| image               = Frank Carlucci official portrait.JPEG
| caption             = Official portrait, 1987
| office              = 16th [[United States Secretary of Defense]]
| president           = [[Ronald Reagan]]
| deputy              = [[William Howard Taft IV|William Taft]]
| term_start          = November 23, 1987
| term_end            = January 20, 1989
| predecessor         = [[Caspar Weinberger]]
| successor           = [[Dick Cheney]]
| office1             = 14th [[National Security Advisor (United States)|United States National Security Advisor]]
| president1          = [[Ronald Reagan]]
| deputy1             = [[Peter Rodman]]<br/>Colin Powell
| term_start1         = December 2, 1986
| term_end1           = November 23, 1987
| predecessor1        = [[John Poindexter]]
| successor1          = [[Colin Powell]]
| office2             = 19th [[United States Deputy Secretary of Defense]]
| president2          = [[Ronald Reagan]]
| term_start2         = February 4, 1981
| term_end2           = December 31, 1982
| predecessor2        = [[W. Graham Claytor Jr.|Graham Claytor]]
| successor2          = [[W. Paul Thayer|Paul Thayer]]
| office3             = 13th [[Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency|Deputy Director of Central Intelligence]]
| president3          = [[Jimmy Carter]]<br/>[[Ronald Reagan]]
| term_start3         = February 10, 1978
| term_end3           = February 5, 1981
| predecessor3        = [[John F. Blake]]
| successor3          = [[Bobby Ray Inman|Bobby Inman]]
| office4             = [[United States Ambassador to Portugal]]
| president4          = [[Gerald Ford]]<br/>[[Jimmy Carter]]
| term_start4         = January 24, 1975
| term_end4           = February 5, 1978
| predecessor4        = [[Stuart Nash Scott|Stuart Scott]]
| successor4          = [[Richard J. Bloomfield|Richard Bloomfield]]
| office5             = 4th Director of the [[Office of Economic Opportunity]]
| president5          = [[Richard Nixon]]
| term_start5         = January 1971
| term_end5           = December 1972
| predecessor5        = [[Donald Rumsfeld]]
| successor5          = [[Phillip V. Sanchez]]
| birth_name          = Frank Charles Carlucci III
| birth_date          = {{birth date |1930|10|18}}
| birth_place         = [[Scranton, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|2018|6|3|1930|10|18}}
| death_place         = [[McLean, Virginia]], U.S.
| resting_place       = [[Arlington National Cemetery]]<ref>[https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx Frank Carlucci III Notice]</ref>
| spouse              = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Jean Anthony|1954|1974|reason=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Marcia Myers|1976}}
}}
| children            = 3
| party               = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| education           = [[Princeton University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|AB]])<br>[[Harvard University]] ([[Master of Business Administration|MBA]])
| allegiance          = <!-- United States; too obvious to list -->
| branch              = {{flag|United States Navy}}
| serviceyears        = 1952–1954
| rank                = [[Lieutenant]]
}}
'''Frank Charles Carlucci III''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|k|ɑːr|'|l|uː|tʃ|i}} {{Respell|kar|LOO|chee}}; October 18, 1930&nbsp;– June 3, 2018) was an American politician who served as the [[United States Secretary of Defense]] from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 April 1997 |title=The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR FRANK CHARLES CARLUCCI III |url=https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Carlucci,%20Frank%20Charles%20III%20_April%201,%201997_.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722172959/https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Carlucci,%20Frank%20Charles%20III%20_April%201,%201997_.pdf |archive-date=22 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training}}</ref><ref name="Historical Office Frank C. Carlucci">{{cite web |url=https://history.defense.gov/Multimedia/Biographies/Article-View/Article/571285/frank-c-carlucci/ |title=Frank C. Carlucci – Ronald Reagan Administration |work=[[Office of the Secretary of Defense]] – Historical Office |access-date=February 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207195410/http://history.defense.gov/Multimedia/Biographies/Article-View/Article/571285/frank-c-carlucci/ |archive-date=February 7, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> He was the first [[Italian Americans|Italian American]] to serve in that position.

Carlucci served in a variety of senior-level governmental positions, including Director of the [[Office of Economic Opportunity]] in the [[Nixon administration]], [[Deputy Director of the CIA]] in the [[Carter administration]], and [[Deputy Secretary of Defense]] and [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] in the [[Reagan administration]].

== Early life ==
Carlucci was born in [[Scranton, Pennsylvania]], the son of Roxann (née Bacon) and Frank Charles Carlucci, Jr., an insurance broker. His father was of Italian and Swiss-Italian descent.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00418.htm |title=Frank Carlucci I, "Sublime Prince" |website=[[Scoop News]] |first=Suzan |last=Mazur  |author1-link=Suzan Mazur |date=June 30, 2005 |access-date=April 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418092908/http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00418.htm |archive-date=April 18, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> His grandfather was from [[Santomenna]], Italy.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://santomenna.blogspot.com/ |title=Santomenna: Sui sentieri della memoria |access-date=June 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617094400/http://santomenna.blogspot.com/ |archive-date=June 17, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

After graduating from [[Wyoming Seminary]] in 1948, Carlucci attended [[Princeton University]], where he roomed with [[Donald Rumsfeld]]. Carlucci graduated with an A.B. from the [[Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs]] at [[Princeton University]] in 1952 after completing a 153-page senior thesis, "Two American Businesses in [[Costa Rica]]."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Carlucci|first=Frank Charles|date=1952|title=Two American Businesses in Costa Rica|url=https://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/handle/88435/dsp01m326m2512}}</ref> He then attended [[Harvard Business School]] for an M.B.A. in 1954–1955.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pionline.com/article/20180604/ONLINE/180609958/frank-carlucci-carlyle-chairman-who-led-pentagon-dies-at-87|title=Frank Carlucci, Carlyle chairman who led Pentagon, dies at 87|publisher=Pensions and Investments|access-date=June 4, 2018|date=June 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922113907/http://www.pionline.com/article/20180604/ONLINE/180609958/frank-carlucci-carlyle-chairman-who-led-pentagon-dies-at-87|archive-date=September 22, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> He was an officer in the [[US Navy]] from 1952 to 1954.<ref name=WPObit/> He joined the [[US Foreign Service]] and worked for the [[US State Department]] from 1956 to 1969.<ref name="NYTO"/>

== Early career ==
=== Democratic Republic of the Congo ===
In 1961, Carlucci was the second secretary at the [[United States Embassy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo|US Embassy in the Congo]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Fascinating Figures Project, Frank Carlucci, Cold Warrior
 |url=https://adst.org/oral-history/fascinating-figures/frank-carlucci-on-the-cold-war-front/ |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training}}</ref> During that time, [[Patrice Lumumba]], the first prime minister of independent Congo, was killed in January 1961 during the [[Congo Crisis]].<ref name=Who/>

According to subsequently-released US government documents, US President [[Dwight Eisenhower]] ordered the CIA to eliminate Lumumba.<ref name=Who>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/974745.stm |title=Who Killed Lumumba? |author=David Akerman |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=October 21, 2000 |access-date=July 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716065618/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/correspondent/974745.stm |archive-date=July 16, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dIhZxpoZVIQC&q=Eisenhower+ordered+the+CIA+to+murder+Lumumba&pg=PA44 |title=The Eisenhower Years |author=Michael S. Mayer |isbn=978-0-8160-5387-2 |page=44 |publisher=[[Infobase Publishing]] |year=2009 |access-date=July 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017155609/https://books.google.com/books?id=dIhZxpoZVIQC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=Eisenhower+ordered+the+CIA+to+murder+Lumumba&source=bl&hl=en |archive-date=October 17, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Minutes of an August 1960 [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]] meeting confirm that Eisenhower told CIA chief [[Allen Dulles]] to "eliminate" the Congolese leader.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/10/martinkettle |location=London |work=[[The Guardian]] |title=President 'ordered murder' of Congo leader |first=Martin |last=Kettle |date=August 10, 2000 |access-date=December 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174145/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/10/martinkettle |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> The official notetaker, Robert H. Johnson, testified to that before the [[Senate Intelligence Committee]] in 1975. However, subsequent investigations indicate that Lumumba was ultimately executed by an order of a political rival, [[Moïse Tshombe]], who led the [[State of Katanga]], with Belgian assistance.<ref name=Who/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bTdlU4yGB6YC&q=August+1960+National+Security+Council+meeting+lumumba&pg=PA78|title=The Assassination of Lumumba|first=Ludo de|last=Witte | author-link = Ludo De Witte|page=78 |year=2002|publisher=[[Verso]] |isbn=1859844103 |access-date=April 17, 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref>

According to [[Robert B. Oakley]], Carlucci befriended the future [[Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)|Congo]] Prime Minister [[Cyrille Adoula]] in 1959-1960, who was then a Congolese Member of Parliament.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Oakley,%20Robert%20B.toc.pdf |title=AMBASSADOR ROBERT B. OAKLEY |last1=Kennedy |first1=Charles Stuart |last2=Stern |first2=Thomas |date=July 7, 1992 |publisher=[[Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training]] |pages=16–17 |access-date=May 10, 2021 |quote=}}</ref> According to [[James Schlesinger]], Adoula began a White House meeting with President [[John F. Kennedy]] with the question "{{Lang|fr|Où est Carlucci?|italic=no}}" ("Where is Carlucci?"). Kennedy first responded, "Who the hell is Carlucci?" He then sent [[Dean Rusk]] to find him.<ref name="Shorrock">{{cite news|last=Shorrock |first=Tim | author-link = Tim Shorrock |title=Company Man |work=[[The Nation]] |date=March 14, 2002 |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020325&s=shorrock20020314 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20020921223353/http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020325&s=shorrock20020314 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 21, 2002 |access-date=May 3, 2009}}</ref> Oakley added that that instance was "the beginning of Carlucci's meteoric rise!"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Oakley,%20Robert%20B.toc.pdf |title=AMBASSADOR ROBERT B. OAKLEY |last1=Kennedy |first1=Charles Stuart |last2=Stern |first2=Thomas |date=July 7, 1992 |publisher=[[Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training]] |page=17 |access-date=May 10, 2021 |quote=}}</ref>

A fictionalized 2000 [[biopic]], ''[[Lumumba (film)|Lumumba]]'', directed by [[Raoul Peck]], portrayed Carlucci as being involved during his service in Congo in the murder of Lumumba.<ref name="Shorrock" /><ref name="Lum">{{cite web|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2002/03/carl-m15.html|title="Carlucci" bleeped from HBO version of Lumumba|publisher=WSWS|date=March 15, 2002|access-date=June 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143436/https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2002/03/carl-m15.html|archive-date=June 12, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Carlucci furiously denied the claims and successfully went to court to prevent his being named in the film when it was released in the United States.<ref name="Shorrock" /><ref name="Lum"/>

=== Brazil ===
Carlucci served alongside [[Herbert S. Okun]] on US [[military attaché]] General [[Vernon A. Walters]]' team in [[Fourth Brazilian Republic|Brazil]] at the time of the [[1964 Brazilian coup d'état]] against President [[João Goulart]].<ref>{{citation |last=Maxwell |first=Kenneth |author-link=Kenneth Maxwell |title=The Making of Portuguese Democracy |location=Cambridge |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=1995 |page=95}}</ref>

== Federal Service ==
[[File:Frank Carlucci at a press conference, 1988.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Secretary Carlucci at a press conference, 1988]]
In 1969, when US President [[Richard Nixon]] persuaded U.S Representative [[Donald Rumsfeld]] to leave his seat to become the director of the [[Office of Economic Opportunity]] (OEO), the agency created by [[Sargent Shriver]] to fight [[Lyndon Johnson]]'s [[war on poverty]], Rumsfeld had Carlucci transferred to OEO from the State Department to head up the [[Community Action Program]].<ref name=Blom>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-04/frank-carlucci-carlyle-chairman-who-led-pentagon-dies-at-87|title=Frank Carlucci, Carlyle Chairman Who Led Pentagon, Dies at 87|publisher=Bloomberg|date=June 4, 2018|access-date=June 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604194726/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-04/frank-carlucci-carlyle-chairman-who-led-pentagon-dies-at-87|archive-date=June 4, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Carlucci was Undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare when [[Caspar Weinberger]] was secretary during the Nixon administration.<ref name=Blom/>

In the aftermath of the catastrophic flooding caused by [[Hurricane Agnes]] in June 1972, Nixon designated Carlucci to lead the federal response in northeastern Pennsylvania because of his personal ties to the region. At the time, Agnes was the costliest tropical cyclone in U.S. history, and the [[Wyoming Valley]] of Pennsylvania was one of the worst hit areas. Carlucci's time in this role was viewed positively by commonwealth and local officials, as well as the general public, given his local ties and effectiveness.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.poconorecord.com/story/news/state/2018/06/05/frank-carlucci-iii-key-figure/12062853007/|title=Frank Carlucci III, key figure in Agnes flood recovery, dies at 87|publisher=Pocono Record|date=June 5, 2018|access-date=April 4, 2022}}</ref>

Carlucci became [[United States Ambassador to Portugal|Ambassador to Portugal]] and served in that position from 1974 to 1977.<ref name=Blom/> He was remembered in Portugal among the winners of the [[coup of 25 November 1975]].<ref>[https://dn.sapo.pt/2008/11/13/nacional/frank_carlucci_parecia_um_tipico_maf.html Frank Carlucci parecia "um típico mafioso italiano"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120707214536/http://dn.sapo.pt/2008/11/13/nacional/frank_carlucci_parecia_um_tipico_maf.html |date=July 7, 2012 }}, João Pedro Henriques, 13 de Novembro 2008</ref>{{failed verification|date=May 2023}} The [[Carlucci American International School of Lisbon]], the oldest [[American school]] in the [[Iberian Peninsula]], is named after him. In 2019, the official residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, located in the [[Lapa (Lisbon)|Lapa]]  neighborhood of [[Lisbon]], was named in his honor.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Portugal |first=U. S. Mission |date=September 6, 2019 |title=The Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Portugal is now Casa Carlucci |url=https://pt.usembassy.gov/residence-of-the-u-s-ambassador-to-portugal-is-casa-carlucci/ |access-date=October 9, 2022 |website=U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Portugal |language=en-US}}</ref>

Carlucci was Deputy Director of the CIA from 1978 to 1981, under Director [[Stansfield Turner]].<ref name="NYTO"/>

=== Department of Defense ===
Carlucci was [[United States Deputy Secretary of Defense]] from 1981 to 1983.<ref>[http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/carlucci.htm SecDef stories - Frank C. Carlucci] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061220103357/http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/carlucci.htm |date=December 20, 2006 }}, Department of Defense</ref> He served as [[United States National Security Advisor]] from 1986 to 1987,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://history.defense.gov/Multimedia/Biographies/Article-View/Article/571285/frank-c-carlucci/|title=Frank C. Carlucci|website=history.defense.gov|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207195410/http://history.defense.gov/Multimedia/Biographies/Article-View/Article/571285/frank-c-carlucci/|archive-date=February 7, 2017|access-date=June 5, 2018|quote=Frank C. Carlucci, who had served as Caspar Weinberger's deputy secretary between 1981 and 1983, succeeded him as secretary of defense.|url-status=live}}</ref> where he appointed [[Colin Powell]], later his successor, as [[Deputy National Security Advisor]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bamford |first=James |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/18/magazine/carlucci-and-the-nsc.html |title=Carlucci and the N.S.C. |date=January 18, 1987 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 25, 2020 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Carlucci became [[US Secretary of Defense]] in 1987 after [[Caspar Weinberger]] resigned due his wife's disabling back pain.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mackay |first=Robert |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/02/01/Weinberger-to-receive-British-knighthood/1897570690000/|title=Weinberger to receive British knighthood |date=February 1, 1988 |work=UPI |access-date=October 2, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> Carlucci served in that position until the end of the Reagan administration, on January 20, 1989.<ref name="NYTO"/><ref name=Blom/> Carlucci was notable during the administration for advocating an arms build-up known as the [[Strategic Defense Initiative]] to hasten the end of the [[Cold War]], a policy that Reagan followed.<ref name=Blom/>

== Later life ==
===Business===
After leaving the Reagan administration in 1983, Carlucci was named president and later chairman of Sears World Trade, a subsidiary of [[Sears]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/12/11/carlucci-supervised-arms-advisers-at-sears/e042da19-4db2-4ea0-b8f1-b250a4c096ae/|title=Carlucci Supervised Arms Advisers at Sears|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=October 2, 2024}}</ref> Sears announced it would wind down the subsidiary in October 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/29/business/sears-to-make-big-cut-in-trade-unit.html|title=Sears to Make Big Cut in Trade Unit|work=New York Times|date=October 29, 1986 |access-date=October 2, 2024 |last1=Greenhouse |first1=Steven }}</ref> By December, 1986, Carlucci returned to government service. 
Carlucci served as chairman of the [[Carlyle Group]] from 1992 to 2003 and chairman emeritus until 2005.<ref name="NYTO"/><ref name=Blom/> He had business interests in the following companies: [[Ashland Oil|Ashland Global Holdings]], [[General Dynamics]], [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|Westinghouse]], Neurogen, CB Commercial Real Estate, [[Nortel]], [[BDM International]], [[Quaker Oats]], and [[Kaman Aircraft|Kaman]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/efxapi/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHtmlSection1?SectionID=517262-129939-140316&SessionID=emE7evqOgVl-zX7|title=BDM International|publisher=Brand.Edgar|access-date=June 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116001723/http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/efxapi/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHtmlSection1%3FSectionID=517262-129939-140316&SessionID=emE7evqOgVl-zX7|archive-date=November 16, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Carlucci was at one time a director of the private security firm [[Wackenhut]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.courthousenews.com/frank-carlucci-demands-his-37-million/|title=Frank Carlucci Demands His $37 Million|publisher=Courthouse News|date=May 30, 2013|access-date=June 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922122049/https://www.courthousenews.com/frank-carlucci-demands-his-37-million/|archive-date=September 22, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and was a co-founder and senior member of the Frontier Group, a private-equity investment firm.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=66956&privcapId=35755336|title=Frank C. Carlucci Biography|publisher=Bloomberg|access-date=June 4, 2018}}</ref> Carlucci was an advisory board member of G2 Satellite Solutions and the Chairman Emeritus of [[Nortel Networks]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.csis.org/people/frank-c-carlucci|title=Frank C. Carlucci|publisher=CSIS|access-date=June 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701010154/https://www.csis.org/people/frank-c-carlucci|archive-date=July 1, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Organizations ===
Carlucci was affiliated with the [[Project for the New American Century]] (PNAC), a [[conservative think tank]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.reasoned.org/e_PNAC2.htm | title=Partial list of people associated with the Project For The New American Century | publisher=Reasoned spirituality | date=December 2004 | access-date=April 18, 2018 | author=B.W.Holmes | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225094004/http://www.reasoned.org/e_PNAC2.htm | archive-date=December 25, 2017 | url-status=live}}</ref> He was Chairman Emeritus of the [[US-Taiwan Business Council]] after he had been Chairman from 1999 to 2002; he was succeeded in 2003 by [[William Cohen]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.us-taiwan.org/council.html#history | title=About the Council | publisher=US-Taiwan Business Council | access-date=April 18, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418161225/http://www.us-taiwan.org/council.html#history | archive-date=April 18, 2018 | url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Historical Dictionary">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uMlDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA50 | title=Historical Dictionary of the Reagan-Bush Era | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield | author=Conley, Richard S. | year=2017 | pages=50 | isbn=978-1538101810 | edition=2 | access-date=April 18, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418161228/https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=9uMlDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq | archive-date=April 18, 2018 | url-status=live}}</ref> Carlucci was a member of the Board of Trustees of the [[RAND Corporation]]<ref name="RAND">{{cite web | url=https://www.rand.org/giving/donor-profiles/carlucci.html | title=The Carluccis Support RAND's Commitment to Follow the Research Wherever It Leads | publisher=RAND | access-date=April 18, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419041009/https://www.rand.org/giving/donor-profiles/carlucci.html | archive-date=April 19, 2018 | url-status=dead}}</ref> and was a founding co-chair of the Advisory Board for RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frank_Charles_Carlucci_III | title=Frank Charles Carlucci III | work=[[SourceWatch]] | access-date=April 18, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418161204/https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frank_Charles_Carlucci_III | archive-date=April 18, 2018 | url-status=live}}</ref> He was also a member of the Honorary Board of the [[Drug Policy Alliance]], a group that advocates [[drug legalization]].<ref>DPA 2010 Annual Report, p. 22.</ref>

== Personal life and death ==
Carlucci was married to Billie Jean Anthony from 1954 until the couple divorced in 1974.<ref name="NNDB">{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/414/000056246/|title=Frank Carlucci|publisher=NNDB|access-date=June 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180603085858/http://www.nndb.com/people/414/000056246/|archive-date=June 3, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> They had two children.<ref name="NNDB"/> Carlucci was later married to Marcia McMillan Myers from 1976 until his death.  They had one daughter.<ref name="NNDB"/>

Carlucci died on June 3, 2018, from complications of [[Parkinson's disease]], at his home in [[McLean, Virginia]], at the age of 87.<ref name=WPObit>{{cite news|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/frank-carlucci-defense-secretary-and-tamer-of-federal-bureaucracies-dies-at-87/2018/06/04/1e34535a-67f9-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?noredirect=on|title = Frank Carlucci, defense secretary and tamer of federal bureaucracies, dies at 87|last = Nelan|first = Bruce|date = June 4, 2018|access-date = June 4, 2018|newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180922113152/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/frank-carlucci-defense-secretary-and-tamer-of-federal-bureaucracies-dies-at-87/2018/06/04/1e34535a-67f9-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?noredirect=on|archive-date = September 22, 2018|url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="NYTO">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/obituaries/frank-carlucci-dead.html|title=Frank C. Carlucci, Diplomat and Defense Secretary to Reagan, Dies at 87|newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 4, 2018|access-date=June 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180605015418/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/obituaries/frank-carlucci-dead.html|archive-date=June 5, 2018|url-status=live|last1=McFadden |first1=Robert D. }}</ref>

== Honors ==
*[[File:PRT Order of Prince Henry - Grand Cross BAR.svg|80px]] Grand-Cross of the [[Order of Prince Henry]], [[Portugal]] (November 24, 2003)<ref name="OrdHonPor">{{cite web|title=Cidadãos Estrangeiros Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas|url=http://www.ordens.presidencia.pt/?idc=154|website=Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas|access-date=March 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208164102/http://www.ordens.presidencia.pt/?idc=154|archive-date=February 8, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[https://www.afsa.org/foreign-service-journal-july-1996#page=32 Foreign Service Journal article on his Lifetime Contributions to American Diplomacy Award.] 
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* [http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/carlucci.htm Department of Defense biography]
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