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Early life and education

Buttigieg was born in South Bend, Indiana, to Jennifer Anne (Montgomery) and Joseph Buttigieg. His father, an immigrant from Ħamrun, Malta, initially studied to be a Jesuit priest before immigrating to the United States and embarking on a secular career as professor of literature at The University of Notre Dame at South Bend. His mother was from a military family in Southern Illinois, a "military brat", who lived in Texas and other places while growing up. She holds a masters degree in fine arts and worked as a teacher at the National Cathedral School before becoming a professor for 22 years at Notre Dame University. Of Methodist background, she identifies as an Episcopalian. Pete Buttigieg was baptized in the Catholic faith and attended Catholic school but is currently a practicing Episcopalian.

In 2000 Buttigieg was valedictorian of his high school senior class at St. Joseph High School in South Bend. That year he was the recipient of a first prize for the JFK Profiles in Courage Essay Contest awarded by the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. He traveled to Boston to accept the award and met Caroline Kennedy and other members of President Kennedy's family. 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.

Buttigieg attended Harvard College, majoring in history and literature. While at Harvard 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. He wrote his undergraduate thesis on the influence of puritanism on U.S. foreign policy as reflected in Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American.

Upon graduation from Harvard in 2005, Buttigieg was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and in 2007 he received first-class honors in philosophy, politics and economics from Pembroke College, Oxford.

Early career and military service

Before graduating from college, Buttigieg worked as an investigative intern at WMAQ-TV, Chicago's NBC news affiliate. He also worked as an intern for Jill Long Thompson's unsuccessful 2002 congressional campaign. He later served as an adviser to her unsuccessful 2008 gubernatorial campaign.

From 2004 to 2005, Buttigieg worked in Washington, D.C., as conference director for former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen's international strategic consulting firm, The Cohen Group. He also spent several months working on Senator John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, where he was a policy and research specialist. After earning his Oxford degree, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company from 2007 through 2010.

Buttigieg was commissioned as a naval intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve in 2009, and deployed to Afghanistan in 2014. After a seven-month deployment, Buttigieg returned to South Bend. He remained a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve until 2017.

Buttigieg was the Democratic Party nominee for State Treasurer of Indiana in 2010. He was defeated by Republican incumbent Richard Mourdock, garnering 37.5% of the vote.

Mayor of South Bend

First term

Buttigieg was elected mayor of South Bend in November 2011, with 74% of the vote. He took office in January 2012 at age 29, becoming the youngest mayor of a U.S. city with at least 100,000 residents.

In 2012 Buttigieg demoted South Bend police chief Darryl Boykins after a federal investigation found that the police department had improperly recorded telephone calls. Buttigieg also fired the police department's communications director, who had "discovered the recordings but continued to record the line at Boykins' command." The police communications director alleged that the recordings captured four senior police officers making racist remarks and discussing illegal acts. Buttigieg opted to settle suits brought by Boykins, the communications director, and the four officers out of court. A federal judge ruled in 2015 that Boykins's recordings violated the Federal Wiretap Act. Buttigieg came under pressure from political opponents to release the tapes, but declined to do so, citing the Wiretap Act while also calling for the eradication of racial bias in the police force.

Buttigieg appointed Ron Teachman, formerly the police chief of New Bedford, Massachusetts, as the new police chief of South Bend. Teachman oversaw the introduction of ShotSpotter technology to South Bend, as well as a new anti-gang initiative.

Buttigieg was named mayor of the year for 2013 by GovFresh.com, tying with former three-term New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg. In 2014 The Washington Post called Buttigieg "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of" based on his youth, education, and military background. In 2016, The New York Times columnist Frank Bruni published a column praising Buttigieg's work as mayor and asking in the headline if he could eventually be elected as "the first gay president."

One of Buttigieg's signature programs has been the "Vacant and Abandoned Properties Initiative" (known locally as "1,000 Properties in 1,000 Days"), a project to repair or demolish blighted properties across the city. The goal was reached by the program's scheduled end date in November 2015.

Buttigieg served for seven months in Afghanistan as a lieutenant in the Navy Reserves, returning to the United States on September 23, 2014. While deployed, Buttigieg was assigned to the Afghan Threat Finance Cell, a counterterrorism unit that targeted Taliban insurgency financing. In Buttigieg's absence, Deputy Mayor Mark Neal, South Bend's city controller, served in the role of executive, from February 2014 until Buttigieg returned to his role as mayor in October 2014.

Second term

In 2014 Buttigieg announced that he would seek a second term and went on to win the Democratic primary with 78% of the vote, defeating Henry Davis, Jr., the city councilman from the 2nd District. In November 2015 he was elected to his second term as mayor of South Bend with over 80% of the vote, defeating Republican Kelly Jones.

In 2013 Buttigieg proposed a "Smart Streets" urban development program to improve South Bend's downtown area, and in early 2015 (after traffic studies and public hearings) he secured a bond issue for the program backed by tax increment financing. "Smart Streets" was aimed at improving economic development and urban vibrancy as well as road safety. The project involved the conversion of one-way streets in downtown to two-way streets, traffic calming measures, the widening of sidewalks, streetside beautification (including the planting of trees and installation of decorative brickwork), the addition of bike lanes, and the introduction of roundabouts. Elements of the project were finished in 2016, and it was officially completed in 2017. The project was credited with spurring private development in the city.

As mayor, Buttigieg was a leading figure behind the creation of a nightly laser lighting display along downtown South Bend's St. Joseph River trail as public art. The project cost $700,000, which was raised from private funds. The "River Lights" installation was unveiled in May 2015, as part of the city's 150th anniversary celebrations.

Under Buttigieg, South Bend launched a $50 million investment in the city's parks, many of which had been neglected during the preceding decades.

In December 2018 Buttigieg announced that he would not seek a third term as mayor of South Bend.

2017 DNC chair election

In January 2017 Buttigieg announced his candidacy for Chair of the Democratic National Committee in its 2017 chairmanship election. He "built a national profile as an emerging dark horse in the race for the chairmanship with the backing of former DNC Chairman Howard Dean and former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley. Buttigieg "campaigned on the idea that the aging Democratic Party needed to empower its millennial members." He withdrew from the race on the day of the election.

2020 presidential election

On January 23, 2019, Buttigieg announced that he was creating an exploratory committee as a possible candidate for President of the United States in the 2020 election. Buttigieg is seeking the Democratic nomination. If elected, he would be the youngest as well as the first openly LGBT American president.

Buttigieg has expressed support for universal healthcare, labor unions, universal background checks for guns, protecting the environment by addressing climate change, passing a federal law banning discrimination against LGBT people, and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Buttigieg self-identifies as a progressive and a supporter of democratic capitalism. He identifies regulatory capture as a significant problem in American society.

Honors and awards

Buttigieg was named a 2014 Aspen Institute Rodel Fellow. He was named a recipient of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Fenn Award in 2015.

Personal life

Buttigieg is a devout Anglican, and has said his faith has been a strong influence on him. Buttigieg was baptized a Roman Catholic and attended a Catholic high school, but his family did not go to church often when he was growing up, and did not identify as a Catholic as an adult. While at Oxford Buttigieg began to attend Christ Church, and felt "more-or-less Anglican" by the time he returned to South Bend. He has cited St. Augustine, James Martin, and Garry Wills as among his religious influences. A member of the Episcopal Church church, Buttigieg is a congregant at the Cathedral of St. James in downtown South Bend.

Buttigieg is a polyglot. He taught himself to speak Norwegian and is also conversational in Spanish, Italian, Maltese, Arabic, Farsi, and French. Buttigieg plays guitar and piano, and in 2013 performed with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra as a guest piano soloist.

In a June 2015 essay in the South Bend Tribune, Buttigieg announced that he is gay. He is the first openly gay municipal executive in Indiana.

In December 2017 Buttigieg announced his engagement to Chasten Glezman, a junior high school teacher whom Buttigieg had been dating since August 2015 after meeting on the dating app Hinge. They were married on June 16, 2018, in a private ceremony at the Cathedral of St. James. They live in the same South Bend neighborhood where Buttigieg grew up, with their two rescue dogs, Truman and Buddy.

Books

• Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future. Liveright Publishing Corporation/W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2019. ISBN 9-781-63149-4369.

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External links

• Presidential campaign website
• Mayor of South Bend website
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Profile at Vote Smart

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