Chasten Buttigieg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Chasten Buttigieg

American teacher; first gentleman of South Bend, Indiana

Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1989

Place of Birth: Traverse City, Michigan, United States

Profession: school teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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About Chasten Buttigieg

  • Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg ( BOOT-ih-jij; born January 19, 1982) is an American politician, serving as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University.
  • He attended the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship.
  • From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a consultant at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
  • From 2009 to 2017, he was as a naval intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant.
  • In 2014, he was deployed to Afghanistan for seven months and was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal and the Joint Meritorious Unit Award.Before running for office, Buttigieg worked on the political campaigns of Democrats Jill Long Thompson, Joe Donnelly, and John Kerry.
  • In 2011 he was elected mayor of South Bend, Indiana, becoming the youngest mayor of a city with a population of over 100,000.
  • In 2015, he publicly came out as gay.
  • Later that year, he was reelected with over 80% of the vote. On April 14, 2019, Buttigieg announced his candidacy for the 2020 United States presidential election.
  • He became the first openly gay person to seek the Democratic Party nomination, and has since built his campaign around the idea of generational change.
  • Initially considered a long-shot candidate, he gained significant momentum in mid-2019 when he participated in several town halls, forums, and debates.
  • As of December 2019, several media outlets consider him one of four "top-tier candidates".
  • He will be 39 years old on Inauguration Day, 2021.

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