Early life and education
Buttigieg was born in South Bend, Indiana, to Jennifer Anne (Montgomery) and Joseph Buttigieg, both professors at the University of Notre Dame.[7] His father was an immigrant from Malta, and his mother is a multiple-generation Hoosier.[8]
Buttigieg graduated from St. Joseph High School in 2000, where he was president and valedictorian of his senior class.[9]In his senior year at high school, he was honored for an essay for the "JFK Profiles in Courage Essay Contest"; he traveled to Boston, where he met Caroline Kennedy and other members of President Kennedy's family during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Library. Buttigieg had written about the integrity and political courage demonstrated by U.S. Congressman Bernie Sanders of Vermont, one of only two independent members of Congress.[10] He was also selected as one of two Indiana delegates to the United States Senate Youth Program.
Buttigieg attended Harvard College, where 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.[11][12] Buttigieg was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[13]
Buttigieg graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2004, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in history and literature.[14] He wrote his thesis on the influence of puritanism on U.S. foreign policy, as reflected in Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American.[15] He received a first-class honors degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 2007 from Pembroke College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.[16][14]
Early career
Before graduating from college, Buttigieg worked as an investigative intern at WMAQ-TV, Chicago's NBC news affiliate. He also worked as an intern for Jill Long Thompson's 2002 congressional campaign. He later served as an adviser to her 2008 gubernatorial campaign.[17]
From 2004 to 2005, Buttigieg worked in Washington, D.C., as conference director for former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen's international strategic consulting firm, The Cohen Group. He also spent several months working on Senator John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, where he was a policy and research specialist.[18] After earning a degree at Oxford, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey and Company from 2007 through 2010.[19][20]
He was the Democratic Party candidate in 2010 for State Treasurer of Indiana. Buttigieg lost to Republican incumbent Richard Mourdock, garnering 37.5% of the vote.[21]
Military service
Buttigieg was commissioned as a Naval intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve in 2009, and deployed to Afghanistan in 2014.[22] After a seven-month deployment, Buttigieg returned to South Bend.[23] He remains a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve.[24]
Mayor of South Bend
Buttigieg is a member of the Episcopal Church.[24] He is a congregant at the Cathedral of St. James in South Bend.[51]
Buttigieg is a polyglot. He taught himself to speak Norwegian and is also conversational in Spanish, Italian, Maltese, Arabic, Dari, and French.[52][53] Buttigieg plays guitar and piano,[54][55] and in 2013 performed with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra as a guest piano soloist.[56][57]
In a June 2015 essay in the South Bend Tribune Buttigieg announced that he is gay.[58] He is the first openly gay municipal executive in Indiana.[59]
This man is very impressve !
Buttigieg was born in South Bend, Indiana, to Jennifer Anne (Montgomery) and Joseph Buttigieg, both professors at the University of Notre Dame.[7] His father was an immigrant from Malta, and his mother is a multiple-generation Hoosier.[8]
Buttigieg graduated from St. Joseph High School in 2000, where he was president and valedictorian of his senior class.[9]In his senior year at high school, he was honored for an essay for the "JFK Profiles in Courage Essay Contest"; he traveled to Boston, where he met Caroline Kennedy and other members of President Kennedy's family during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Library. Buttigieg had written about the integrity and political courage demonstrated by U.S. Congressman Bernie Sanders of Vermont, one of only two independent members of Congress.[10] He was also selected as one of two Indiana delegates to the United States Senate Youth Program.
Buttigieg attended Harvard College, where 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.[11][12] Buttigieg was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[13]
Buttigieg graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2004, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in history and literature.[14] He wrote his thesis on the influence of puritanism on U.S. foreign policy, as reflected in Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American.[15] He received a first-class honors degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 2007 from Pembroke College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.[16][14]
Early career
Before graduating from college, Buttigieg worked as an investigative intern at WMAQ-TV, Chicago's NBC news affiliate. He also worked as an intern for Jill Long Thompson's 2002 congressional campaign. He later served as an adviser to her 2008 gubernatorial campaign.[17]
From 2004 to 2005, Buttigieg worked in Washington, D.C., as conference director for former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen's international strategic consulting firm, The Cohen Group. He also spent several months working on Senator John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, where he was a policy and research specialist.[18] After earning a degree at Oxford, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey and Company from 2007 through 2010.[19][20]
He was the Democratic Party candidate in 2010 for State Treasurer of Indiana. Buttigieg lost to Republican incumbent Richard Mourdock, garnering 37.5% of the vote.[21]
Military service
Buttigieg was commissioned as a Naval intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve in 2009, and deployed to Afghanistan in 2014.[22] After a seven-month deployment, Buttigieg returned to South Bend.[23] He remains a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve.[24]
Mayor of South Bend
Buttigieg is a member of the Episcopal Church.[24] He is a congregant at the Cathedral of St. James in South Bend.[51]
Buttigieg is a polyglot. He taught himself to speak Norwegian and is also conversational in Spanish, Italian, Maltese, Arabic, Dari, and French.[52][53] Buttigieg plays guitar and piano,[54][55] and in 2013 performed with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra as a guest piano soloist.[56][57]
In a June 2015 essay in the South Bend Tribune Buttigieg announced that he is gay.[58] He is the first openly gay municipal executive in Indiana.[59]
This man is very impressve !
