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Peter Paul Montgomery 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 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020, which earned him the nickname “Mayor Pete”. Pete Buttigieg, in full Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, (born January 19, 1982, South Bend, Indiana, U.S.), American politician who serves as U.S secretary of transportation (2021-) in the administration of Pres. Joe Biden. Buttigieg is the first openly gay cabinet member in American history. He Previously was mayor (2012-20) of South Bend, Indiana, and he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Encyclopedia Britannica

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Pete Buttigieg

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Also known as:Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg

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Pete Buttigieg, in full Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg,(born January 19, 1982, South Bend, Indiana, U.S.), American politician who serves as U.S. secretary of transportation (2021-) in the administration of Pres. Joe Biden. Buttigieg is the first openly gay cabinet member in American history. He previously was mayor (2012-20) of South Bend, Indiana, and he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

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Born: January 19, 1982 (age 41) South Bend Indiana

Title/Office: U.S. Department of Transportation (2021-), United States mayor (2012-2020),

South Bend

Awards And Honors:Rhodes Scholarship

Education and early career

Both of Buttigieg’s parents were professors at the University of Notre Dame. His father, an immigrant from Malta, taught literature, and his mother taught linguistics. Buttigieg attended Harvard University, where the graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history and literature in 2004. He later studied at the University of Oxford as Rhodes scholar. After earning a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford’s Pembroke College in 2007, he returned to the United States. For several years Buttigieg worked for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company in Chicago. In 2008 he served as an adviser to Jill Long Thompson, A Democratic candidate in the Indiana gubernatorial race; she lost the election. The following year Buttigieg became an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, serving until 2017.

Mayor of South Bend

Buttigieg 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 his constituents had difficulty pronouncing his last name (“BOOT-edge-egde”), he was widely referred to simply as “Mayor Pete.” During his first term, he carried out an ambitious program to demolish or repair more than 1,000 abandoned houses in South Bend. His “Smart Streets” initiative also transformed the city’s downtown by redesigning its streets and sidewalks, an effort that helped bring hundreds of millions of dollars in new investment to the area. In 2014 Buttigieg took a leave from his mayoral duties to serve a seven-month deployment in afghanistan with the Navy Reserve. In June 2015 he came out publicly as gay in an essay published in the South bend Tribune. He later married (2018) Chasten Glezman, a schoolteacher.

Buttigieg won reelection by a wide margin in November 2015. During his second term, racial tensions in the city increased, particularly in the wake of the fatal shooting in 2019 of Black resident Eric Logan by a white South Bend police sergeant. Buttigieg was criticized for his oversight of the police department. He later acknowledged that many of his efforts to reform the department, including attempts to recruit more minority police officers, had efforts to reform the department , including attempts to recruit more minority police officers, had been unsuccessful. During this time, Buttigieg’s 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