| Pete Buttigieg | |
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| Mayor of South Bend, Indiana | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office January 1, 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Steve Luecke |
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| Born | January 19, 1982 South Bend, Indiana |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | Harvard College (A.B.) Oxford University |
| Website | Pete for South Bend |
Pete Buttigieg is the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana.[1]
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Buttigieg holds a first class honors degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Bachelors in History and Literature from Harvard College, where he was student president of the Institute of Politics and led the Institute's annual study of youth attitudes on politics. He is a native of South Bend, Indiana and the valedictorian of St. Joseph's High School.
Buttigieg has worked on Capitol Hill, at NBC in Chicago, and in Congressional, Gubernatorial, and Presidential campaigns with a speciality in policy research and debate preparation.[2] He also worked at The Cohen Group, an international strategic consulting firm in Washington. His commentary has appeared on NPR, Boston local television and radio, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times. Pete is the co-founder of the Democratic Renaissance Project, a fellow of the Truman National Security Project and worked for McKinsey and Company, a management strategy consulting firm, where he specialized in energy and economic development strategy.[3][4] He was the Democratic Party candidate in 2010 for Indiana State Treasurer.[5]
Buttigieg was elected on November 8, 2011 with 74% of the vote[6] and took office on Jan. 1 as the youngest mayor of a U.S. city with at least 100,000 residents.[7]
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