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Pete Buttigieg

Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an American politician and former naval officer who is currently serving as the 19th United States Secretary of Transportation A member of the Democratic Party he was the 32 nd mayor of South Bend , Indiana ,from 2012 to 2020 which earned him yhe nickname Mayor Pete . Pete Buttigieg in full Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg American politician who serves as US in the administration of Press Joe Biden. Buttigieg is the first openly gay cabinet member in American history.He previously was mayor of South Bend , Indiana and he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Encyclopedia Britannica Home Quizzes Games history & Society science &Techbiogrophiesanimals& Nature Geography &Travelsarts& Culture money videoes Pete Buttigieg Home politics , Law and government world leader other politician History and society Pete Buttigieg American politician also known as Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg written and fact checked by Buttigieg warn airlines to finish retrofitting planes to avoid interference from 5G signal Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is warning airlines to be ready when wireless company power up their 5G service next month. Pete Buttigieg in full Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg American politician who serves as U.S. secretary of Transportation in the administration of pres Joe Biden . Buttigieg is the first openly gay cabinet member in American history.He previously was mayor of South bend, Indiana,and he unsuccessfully sought the democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Pete Buttigieg Pete Buttigieg see all media category history & society born January 19 ,1982 south bend Indiana Awards & Honours Rhoades Scholarship Education and early career Both of Buttigieg parents were professor at the University of Notre Dame. his father an immigrant from Malta taught literature and his mother taught linguistic . Buttigieg attended Harvard University where he graduated with bachelor degree in history and literature in 2004. He later study at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar .After earning a bachelor degree in philosophy , politics and economics from Oxford Pembrok college in 2007, he returned to the United States .For several years Buttigieg work for the management counslting firm McKinsey & company in Chicago .In 2008 he served as an advisor to Jill long Thompson , Democratic candidate in the Indiana gubernatorial race , she lost the election .The following year Buttigieg became an intelligence officer in US Navy reserve serving until 2017 .

Mayor of South Bend

Buttigieg first ran for elective office in 2010 ,losing a bid to become treasurer of Indiana . He quickly rebounded from that defeat , winning election as mayor of South bend in 2011. At the time he took office in January 2012, Buttigieg was the youngest mayor of an American city with more than 100,000 residents. Because many of its constituents had difficulty pronouncing his last name , he was widely referred simply as Mayor Pete . During his his first term he carried out an ambitious program to demolish or repair more than 1000 abandoned houses in south bend .his smart streets initiate also transformed the City downtown bh redisegning its streets and sidewalk,an effort that help bring hundred of millions of dollars in new investment to th area . In 2014 Buttigieg take a leave from his mayoral duties to serve a seven month development in Afganistan with the Navy reserve . In june 2015 he came out publicly as gay in an essay published in a south bend tribune.He later married Chasten Glezman, school teacher.

Buttigieg won reelection by a wide margin in November 2015 . During his second term , racial tension in the city increased.particularly in the wake of in the fatal shooting in 2019 of black resident Eric Logan by South bend police sergeant. Buttigieg was criticised for his oversight of the police department. He later acknowledge that many of his efforts to reform the department, including attempt to recruit more minority police officers, had bren unsuccessful. During this time Buttigieg national profile began to rise and in 2017 he ran for chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Although he ultimately dropped out, many pundits viewed him as a rising star in the party. In 2018 he announced that he would not seek a third term as a mayor the following year he left office in 2020. In April 2019 Buttigieg entered the 2020 US presidential race , joining a crowded field of candidates vying for the democratic nomination.He quickly gained momentum ,positiong himself as a political outsider who could bring a fresh perspective to Washington . He called for a significant increased in a federal funding for renewable energy development and stronger gun control laws .He also proposed a new health care plan . summarised by a slogan medcare for all who want it .