Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an American politician and former Naval Intelligence Officer who has served as the mayor of the city of South Bend, Indiana since 2012. He officially announced on April 14, 2019, that he was running for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2020.
Pete Buttigieg is mayor of Soth Bend since 2012. He served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Research from 2009 to 2017. The first openly gay municipal executive in Indiana. He announced his Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2020.
Pete Buttigieg was born on January 19, 1982, in South Bend, Indiana. He holds American nationality. His birth sign is Capricorn. He attended St. Joseph High School in South Bend, where he was a valedictorian of his high school senior class. He then attended Harvard College, where he majored in history and literature. 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 graduated from Harvard in 2005.
Pete Buttigieg was born to a father named Joseph Buttigieg and a mother named Jennifer Anne. His father, an immigrant from Hamrun, Malta, initially studied to be a Jesuit priest before immigrating to the United States and embarking on a secular career as a professor of literature at The University of Notre Dame at South Bend. His mother was a professor at Notre Dame for 29 years.
Pete Buttigieg announced that he is gay in an essay in the South Bend Tribune in June 2015. He announced his engagement to a junior high school teacher Chasten Glezman in December 2017. They started dating after meeting on the dating app Hinge in August 2015. The couple got married on June 16, 2018, in a private ceremony at the Cathedral of St. James. He lives in the same South Bend neighborhood where grew up.
Pete Buttigieg annual salary is estimated at $104,000. His net worth is under evaluation. He earns serving in the government positions.