The Boston native and father of Tucker Carlson had a wide-ranging career as a reporter and government official.

In 1979, Mr. Carlson married Patricia Caroline Swanson, an heiress to the Swanson frozen-food empire. She died in 2023. In addition to his two sons, survivors include five grandchildren.

Tucker Carlson revealed his father Richard Carlson died on March 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida following brief illness ...

Richard Warner Carlson, the award-winning journalist who served as the director of the Voice of America under the Ronald Reagan administration, passed away on March 24 at his residence in Florida.

Richard W. Carlson is survived by his sons, Tucker and Buckley, his beloved daughter-in-law Susie, and five grandchildren. He ...

He died at his home in Boca Grande, Florida, on Monday. In the wake of the tragedy, attention is turning to Carlson's stepmother, Patricia Swanson. According to a 2018 profile in the Columbia ...

Tucker Carlson‘s father Richard ‘Dick’ Warner Carlson has passed away at the age of 84. Knewz.com can reveal the right-wing political commentator paid tribute to his late father, sharing that he died ...

Obituary for my father. Richard Warner Carlson died at 84 on March 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida after six weeks of illness. He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with ...

Things eventually stabilized for the Carlson family. In the affluent coastal community of La Jolla, Dick married Patricia Swanson—heiress to the Swanson frozen food empire—and built a new life.

Carlson moved his sons to San Diego after his first wife, Lisa McNear Lombardi, abandoned the family in 1976. He eventually met and married Patricia Swanson, the heiress to the Swanson frozen dinner ...