Pete Buttigieg Category: Person Full Name: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg Wikipedia: Pete Buttigieg Born: 19 January 1982 Hometown: South Bend, Indiana Description: Former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana and 19th United States Secretary of Transportation. Page Sections: Biography · Documents · Article Index

Biography

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Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg 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".

Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Oxford, attending the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He was mobilized and deployed to the War in Afghanistan for seven months in 2014. Before being elected as mayor of South Bend in 2011, Buttigieg worked on the political campaigns of Democrats Jill Long Thompson, Joe Donnelly, and John Kerry, and ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic nominee for Indiana state treasurer in 2010. While serving as South Bend's mayor, Buttigieg came out as gay in 2015. He married Chasten Glezman, a schoolteacher and writer, in June 2018. Buttigieg declined to seek a third term as mayor.

Buttigieg ran as a candidate for president in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, launching his campaign for the 2020 United States presidential election on April 14, 2019. He became one of the first openly gay men to launch a major party presidential campaign. Despite initially low expectations, he gained significant momentum in mid-2019 when he participated in several town hall meetings and television debates. Buttigieg narrowly won the Iowa caucuses and placed a close second in the New Hampshire primary. By winning Iowa, he became the first openly gay candidate to win a presidential primary or caucus. Buttigieg dropped out of the race on March 1, 2020, and endorsed Joe Biden the following day.

President-elect Biden named Buttigieg as his nominee for Secretary of Transportation in December 2020. His nomination was confirmed on February 2, 2021, by a vote of 86–13, making him the first openly gay Cabinet secretary in U.S. history. Nominated at age 38, he is also the youngest Cabinet member in the Biden administration and the youngest person ever to serve as Secretary of Transportation.

Documents

Date	Document	Details
21 January 2021 hearing date	Nomination of Peter Buttigieg, Nominee to be Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation Hearing Before the Committe on Commerce, Science, and Transportation	Hearing Transcript ( PDF) 396KB · 100 pages Publisher: United States Senate Topics: Pete Buttigieg U.S. Department of Transportation

Date	Article	Details
25 March 2022	Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Department of Transportation's Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant Opportunity The purpose of this notice is to solicit applications for three funding opportunities: The National Infrastructure Project Assistance grants program, the Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight and Highways Projects grants program, and the Rural Surface Transportation Grant program.	Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Office of the Secretary of Transportation Byline: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg