In 1984, Tucker Carlson’s father unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Republican Mayor Roger Hedgecock in the San Diego mayoral race.

In 1979, Carlson’s father married divorcee, Patricia Caroline Swanson, an heiress to Swanson Enterprises, daughter of Gilbert Carl Swanson and niece of Senator J William Fulbright.

Though Patricia remained a beneficiary of the family fortune, the Swansons had sold the brand to the Campbell Soup Company in 1955 and did not own it by the time of Carlson’s father’s marriage.

Who is Tucker Carlson’s partner?

Tucker Carlson is married to Susan Thomson Carlson. They met at St. George’s school, where she was the headmaster’s daughter, and they got married on August 10, 1991, in the school chapel.

They have four children together.