Past Speaker

The Hon. Mike Pompeo

70th United States secretary of state

Mike Pompeo served as the 70th Secretary of State of the United States, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and a four-term congressman representing Kansas's Fourth District. He graduated first in his class from West Point in 1986, served as a cavalry officer patrolling the Iron Curtain, and earned his law degree from Harvard. Before entering public service, he built two manufacturing businesses in Kansas in the aerospace and energy sectors. As Secretary of State under President Trump, Pompeo advanced an America First foreign policy and brokered the Abraham Accords framework. His memoir Never Give an Inch became a New York Times bestseller.