Dick Carlson Father of Tucker Carlson, Dies at 84

Richard “Dick” Carlson, an award-winning journalist, political lobbyist and diplomat whose colorful – and often personally tragic – life took him from a Boston orphanage to the highest levels of media, business and American political power, has died. He was 84.

His son, former Fox News host and conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson, confirmed his death Wednesday on X, saying he died at his home in Boca Grande, Florida, after six weeks of illness.

“He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity, holding the hands of his children with his dogs at his feet,” Carlson wrote in his obituary, including details of his father’s difficult childhood.

Richard Carlson was born in 1941 to a 15-year-old girl who spoke only Swedish and tried to hide the pregnancy. He developed rickets because of malnutrition and was left at a Boston orphanage, and after years in foster homes, was placed with the Carlson family in Massachusetts. His adoptive father died when he was 12, and after a troubled teenhood, he served in the Marines and drove to California in search of adventure, where he found his calling in journalism.

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