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Pete Buttigieg is a politician and former Naval Intelligence Officer.

Relationship Facts of Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg is married to Chasten Glezman.
Pete Buttigieg married on June 16, 2018.
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He does not have any kids as of now.
Pete Buttigieg is not having an affair with anyone presently.
His sexual orientation is not straight and is gay.

Is Pete Buttigieg Gay? Who is he married to?

Pete Buttigieg is a gay person. He has been married to a junior high school teacher, Chasten Glezman since June 16, 2018.

They had been dating since August 2015 after meeting on Hinge, a dating app.

In December 2017, they engaged and married in a private ceremony at the Cathedral of St. James.

He now lives with his husband and two rescue dogs, Truman, and Buddy in South Bend. In April 2019, the pair also announced that they would love to have a child.

Pete Buttigieg: Biography in Details

Who is Pete Buttigieg?

Pete Buttigieg is an American politician and former Naval Intelligence Officer. He has been serving as the mayor of the city of South Bend, Indiana since 2012.

Pete Buttigieg: Age, Parents, Siblings, Ethnicity

He was born on January 19, 1982, in South Bend, Indiana, USA. His birth name is Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg.

He was born to his parents Joseph Buttigieg, a professor of literature at The University of Notre Dame, and Jennifer Anne Montgomery, a professor at Notre Dame. He has no siblings.

Pete holds American citizenship but his ethnicity is unknown.

Education, School/College University

He joined St. Joseph High School, where he was a valedictorian in 2002. After that, he joined Harvard College where he majored in history and literature.

There he was the president of the Harvard Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee.

After graduation, Pete Buttigieg was awarded a Rhodes scholarship. In 2007, he received first-class honors in philosophy, politics, and economics from Pembroke College, Oxford.

Pete Buttigieg: Professional Life and Career

While he was a student, Pete Buttigieg worked as an investigative intern at WMAQ-TV and as an intern for Jill Long Thompson’s 2002 congressional campaign.

After that, he served as an advisor for the 2008 gubernatorial campaign.

Also, he worked as a conference director from 2004 to 2005 for The Cohen Group, during Senator John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.

After graduation, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company from 2007 to 2010.

In 2009, Pete Buttigieg was commissioned as a naval intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve 2009 and deployed to Afghanistan in 2014 for a total of 7 months, and returned to South Bend, where he remained a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve until 2017.

In addition, he was the Democratic Party nominee for State Treasurer of Indiana in 2010 but was defeated by Republican  Richard Mourdock.

Moreover, Pete Buttigieg was elected mayor of South Bend in November 2011 and took the office in January 2012.

Likewise, it was announced in 2014 that he would seek a second term and went on to win with 78% of the vote, defeating Henry Davis, Jr.

He was elected to his second term as mayor of South Bend in November 2015 and he announced his candidacy for Chair of the Democratic National Committee in its 2017 chairmanship election in January 2017 but on the day of the election, he withdrew from the race.

Likewise, he announced his interest in candidacy for President of the United States in the 2020 election on January 23, 2019, and officially launched his presidential campaign on April 14, 2019, in South Bend.

Awards, Nominations

He won first prize in the JFK Profiles in Courage Essay Contest in 2002 and traveled to Boston to accept the award and met Caroline Kennedy.

Net Worth, Salary

He has an estimated net worth of around $250k and he has earned that sum of money from his professional career.

Also, his salary is around $104k per year.

Pete Buttigieg: Rumors and Controversy/Scandal

There was a controversy over Indiana Senate Bill 101 in 2015 which had been widely criticized for allowing discrimination against LGBT people.

Pete Buttigieg came out as gay shortly afterward, making him the first openly gay municipal executive in Indiana.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight

Pete Buttigieg has blue eyes and dark brown hair. His height is 5 ft 8 inches and his weight is 70 kg.

This mayor’s shoe size, dress size, etc. are unknown.

Social Media

Pete Buttigieg has around 1.4 million followers on Instagram, about 3.5M followers on Twitter, and around 731.3k followers on Facebook.

 

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