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Buttigieg came out as gay in a June 2015 piece in the South Bend Tribune, [109] becoming Indiana's first openly gay elected executive. [314] [315] [316] He was the first elected official in Indiana to come out while in office [317] and the highest elected official in Indiana to come out. [316] Pete and Chasten Buttigieg in 2019
Pete Buttigieg has served as the secretary of transportation since February 3, 2021. He was confirmed by the United States Senate by a vote of 86–13 on February 2, 2021. [5] Buttigieg is the first openly gay man to hold the position, the first openly gay Cabinet secretary and the youngest person to serve as secretary of transportation. [6]
Buttigieg supports eliminating the death penalty. [14] On marijuana, Buttigieg has supported Canada-style legalization, saying: "The safe, regulated, and legal sale of marijuana is an idea whose time has come for the United States, as evidenced by voters demanding legalization in states across the country."
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg was born on January 19, 1982, in South Bend, Indiana, U.S. to Joseph and Jennifer Anne Buttigieg. He excelled in school and graduated Magna cum Laude from Harvard ...
Pete Buttigieg has accomplished a lot in his comparatively short life. The South Bend, Ind., mayor graduated from Harvard, speaks eight languages and, at just 37 years old, is easily the youngest ...
A book that had originally been on a list of hundreds of potentially banned books in the Urbandale Community School District included "Mayor Pete: The Story of Pete Buttigieg," a children's ...
Pete Buttigieg served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana from 2012 to 2020. Elected in 2011 as a Democrat, he took office in January 2012 at the age of 29, becoming the second-youngest mayor in South Bend history, and the youngest incumbent mayor, at the time, of a U.S. city with at least 100,000 residents.
Chasten (left) and Pete Buttigieg campaigning in Iowa in 2019 Buttigieg was a campaign spokesperson, [ 15 ] advisor, [ 16 ] and social media campaigner for his husband Pete Buttigieg 's campaign. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] If his husband had been elected, Chasten identified improving the nation's public schools, arts education, and mental health as the ...