Pete Buttigieg
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an American politician and former naval officer who is 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".
Some of the key events about Pete Buttigieg
- 2000Graduated as valedictorian from St. Joseph High School in South Bend, Indiana
- 2004Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Literature
- 2007Received a first-class honors degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Pembroke College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar
- 2009Commissioned as a naval intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve
- 2012Elected as Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, becoming the youngest mayor of a U.S. city with at least 100,000 residents
- 2014Deployed to Afghanistan for seven months as part of the Navy Reserve, earning the Joint Service Commendation Medal
- 2015Publicly came out as gay, becoming Indiana's first openly gay elected executive
- 2015Faced criticism for demolishing abandoned homes in low-income neighborhoods as part of an urban renewal initiative
- 2019Launched a campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election
- 2019Received backlash for a campaign event held at a gay bar in Providence, Rhode Island
- 2019Faced controversy over his campaign's use of stock photos of Kenyan women to illustrate his racial equity plan
- 2020Won the Iowa Democratic caucuses, becoming the first openly gay candidate to win a presidential primary or caucus
- 2020Criticized for claiming false support from Black leaders in South Carolina
- 2020Faced scrutiny over his work at McKinsey & Company and its potential ties to controversial clients
- 2021Confirmed as United States Secretary of Transportation, becoming the first openly gay person to serve in a U.S. cabinet position
- 2021Criticized for taking paternity leave during a supply chain crisis as Secretary of Transportation
- 2022Faced backlash for suggesting that higher fuel prices could accelerate the transition to electric vehicles
- 2022Criticized for frequent use of private jets while promoting climate-friendly policies
- 2023Faced criticism for slow response to the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio
- 2023Received negative attention for vacationing in Portugal during critical union negotiations and transportation issues
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