Pete Buttigieg
American politician (born 1982)
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg ( BOO-tij-əj; born January 19, 1982) is an American politician and former naval officer who served as the 19th United States secretary of transportation from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020.
Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Oxford, attending the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 2007, he began three years of work at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He was mobilized and deployed to the war in Afghanistan for seven months in 2014. Afterwards, he worked on the political campaigns of Democrats Jill Long Thompson, Joe Donnelly, and John Kerry, and was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Indiana state treasurer in 2010. In 2011, he was elected mayor of South Bend. In 2015, Buttigieg was re-elected, coming out as gay earlier that year. He married Chasten Glezman, a schoolteacher and writer, in June 2018.
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