Tucker Carlson, co-founder of the Daily Caller News Foundation, announced the death of his father, Richard “Dick” Carlson on Wednesday.
Carlson’s father died at the age of 84 of a six-week illness at his home in Boca Grande, Florida, along with his family and beloved dog. The obituary shared by Carlson honored his father’s life by pointing out his service in the US Marines. And his journalistic career describes him as one of the “kind and most loyal” people his family has ever known.
“Richard Warner Carlson passed away at the age of 84 after six weeks of illness at his home in Boca Grande, Florida on March 24, 2025. He refused all painkillers at the end, leaving this world with dignity and clarity, embracing his child’s hands at his feet,” the obituary reads.
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Richard Warner Carlson passed away at his home in Boca Grande, Florida on March 24, 2025 after six weeks of illness. He refuses all painkillers to the end, leaves this world with dignity and clarity, and holds the hand of a child with his dog… pic.twitter.com/4lmygmksit
– Tuckercarlson (@tuckercarlson) March 26, 2025
Born in Massachusetts on February 10, 1941, Dick Carlson spent years in his foster home before he adopted him, the obituary said. After resigning from school at the age of 17, he joined the US Marines. (Related: “Inciting Violence Against My Family”: Tucker blows up the New York Times for plans to write a story about where he is new home)
He moved to California in 1962, where he worked as a merchant seaman and later as an investigative reporter and anchor for ABC News. He later became the director of American voice under former President Ronald Reagan, then moved to the Seychelles as the US ambassador, where he learned about the “number of colorful leaders” and began working in dozens of countries around the world.
As a single father, Carson’s father often brought his two sons on his reporting trips and taught them about various topics due to his love of reading. The obituary called Carlson’s father a “free thinker” with “an outlaw spirit tempered by decency.”
“By 1975, he had married two little boys whose wife had departed for Europe and never returned. He raised a boy. “At home, he educated them during a three-hour dinner, from the French Revolution to the Bolshevik Russia, the PG Ward House, the history of the American Indians, and the everlasting and unchanging nature of the people. The real thing.
The late Carlson was survived by two sons, Tucker and Buckley, daughter-in-law Susie, and five grandchildren. He is also said to be an avid dog lover.
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