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Who is Pete Buttigieg?
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg ( /ˈbuːtɪˌdʒɛdʒ/ BOO-tih-jej; born January 19, 1982) is an American politician, serving since 2012 as the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He is also a lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve. He was a consultant at McKinsey and Company, a management strategy consulting firm, from 2007 through 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard University, a Rhodes Scholar, and a veteran of the War in Afghanistan.
He is competing for the party's nomination in the 2020 presidential election, and is the first openly gay Democratic candidate ever to run for President of the United States.If elected, he would be the first openly gay president as well as the youngest.
Buttigieg was born in South Bend, Indiana, to Jennifer Anne (Montgomery) and Joseph Buttigieg, both professors at the University of Notre Dame. His father was an immigrant from Malta, and his mother is a multiple-generation Hoosier.
Buttigieg graduated from St. Joseph High School in 2000, where he was president and valedictorian of his senior class. In his senior year at high school, he was honoured for an essay for the "JFK Profiles in Courage Essay Contest"; he traveled to Boston, where he met Caroline Kennedy and other members of President Kennedy's family during a May 22, 2000, ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Library. Buttigieg had written about the integrity and political courage demonstrated by U.S. Congressman Bernie Sanders of Vermont, one of only two Independent members of Congress. He was also selected as one of two Indiana delegates to the United States Senate Youth Program.
Buttigieg attended Harvard College, where he was president of the Harvard Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee and worked on the Institute's annual study of youth attitudes on politics. Buttigieg was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Buttigieg graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2004, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in history and literature. He wrote his thesis on the influence of puritanism on U.S. foreign policy, as reflected in the Graham Greene novel The Quiet American. He received a first classhonors degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 2007 from Pembroke College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
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