Tucker Carson has announced the death of his father Richard 'Dick' Warner Carlson at 84.
The conservative podcaster shared the news on an X-post on Wednesday and said that Warner Carlson died on Monday at home in Boca Grande, Florida, after a six-week illness.
“He refused all the painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity, kept his children's hands with his dogs at his feet,” wrote Carlson.
The older Carlson served as the American ambassador in Seychelles under the George HW Bush government in the early 1990s.
He had previously served under President Ronald Reagan as director Voice of America.
Dick Carlson had a career as a reporter before his time in conservative governments.
Tucker Carlson announced the death of his father on Wednesday
Richard 'Dick' Warner Carlson died at home in Florida after a six -week illness
Dick Carlson is survived by his two sons, Tucker and Buckley
According to a death advertisement shared by Carlson, his father spent the last 25 years of his life in the work whose details his family were never completely clear, but that was clearly interesting. '
'He spoke with his sons every day and lunched with them once a week for thirty years in the Metropolitan Club in Washington, always preceded by a dice game. Throughout his life he fervently loved dogs, “his death advertisement added.
Dick Carlson is survived by his two sons and five grandchildren.
Tucker Carlson had an unconventional, or usually luxury youth in South California, where he was raised by his journalist father and heiresse stepmother.
He said earlier that his relationship with his father was formative in who he became.
A biography of Chadwick Moore with the title Tucker said that Dick believed in exposing his children to the excitement and horror of his work of early centuries, including taking a murder investigation and showing the victim splashed on the sidewalk.
“As soon as they could walk, he dragged them to dinners, restaurants, work events and report performances to ensure that they 'became well -informed and early gourmands', the biography reads.
Dick Carlson and his second wife, American Frozen Dinner heiry Patricia Swanson. Following Carlson's mother leaving the family, Dick moved his sons to San Diego, where he met Swanson and married, who later adopted Carlson and his brother legally
Photos of a family album from the Carlsons Camping. Dick Carlson was a father who believed in subjecting his sons to any life experience that was available
“Once when they were five and six, they went for a Sunday dinner in the San Fernando Valley house by Eddie Cannizzaro, a notorious gangster and the main suspect in a hit from 1947 Beverly Hills Mafia.”
The gangster and his father Joe led Tucker, and his younger brother Buckley, around the gardens of the house and showed them how to make pasta e fagioli.
Carlson told the author that his father was 'a great, dedicated' older, but someone who cherished fierce independence in his children by placing them in what resembles uncomfortable situations.
Because Dick was anchor of a local news station in San Diego, he was something of a local celebrity and often made interesting and important dinner guests.
Prior to life in La Jolla, and eventually Washington, DC, Dick was married to the mother of his two children – Lisa McNear Lombardi.
In 1976 Dick Carlson presented a divorce and moved with his sons from Los Angeles to San Diego, whose custody of whom he won, with reference to the 'alcohol, marijuana and cocaic abuse' of his future ex-wife.
Lisa stayed in Los Angeles and saw Tucker for the last time when he was six years old. According to the book, Carlson no longer saw her before her death by cancer in 2011.
Things seem to be in a good place for the Carlsons as soon as they were in San Diego. In the prosperous coastal area of ​​La Jolla, Dick Carlson met his neighbor from two doors, Patricia Swanson – the heiress of the typical American Frozen Dinner Company.
