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. President-elect Biden named Buttigieg as his nominee for Secretary of Transportation in December 2020. Buttigieg dropped out of the race on March 1, 2020, and endorsed Joe Biden the following day. By winning Iowa, he became the first openly gay candidate to win a presidential primary or caucus. Buttigieg narrowly won the Iowa caucuses and placed a close second in the New Hampshire primary. Despite initially low expectations, he gained significant momentum in mid-2019 when he participated in several town hall meetings and television debates.
He became one of the first openly gay men to launch a major party presidential campaign. Buttigieg declined to seek a third term as mayor.īuttigieg 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 married Chasten Glezman, a schoolteacher and writer, in June 2018.
While serving as South Bend's mayor, Buttigieg came out as gay in 2015. 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. He was mobilized and deployed to the War in Afghanistan for seven months in 2014. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant. 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".īuttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Oxford, attending the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship. Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg ( / ˈ b uː t ə dʒ ə dʒ/ BOOT-ə-jəj born January 19, 1982) is an American politician and former naval officer who is currently serving as the 19th United States Secretary of Transportation.
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