"He graduated at the top of his class at West Point. He served as a tank officer in Europe. He went to Harvard Law School.
He was a corporate lawyer who launched a successful aerospace business. He got elected to Congress as a Tea Party Republican from Kansas in 2010. For more than a year, he has run the CIA."
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/13/567733814/mike-pompeo-a-soldier-spy-chief-and-tea-party-republican-becomes-a-diplomat