Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, aka Pete Buttigieg, is a renowned American politician and former naval officer with mixed ethnicity.
The 42-year-old politician Pete Buttigieg, who is famous by his nickname Mayor Pete, was born to mixed-ethnic parents where his mother, Jennifer Anne, is American, and his father, Joseph Anthony Buttigieg II, is Maltese.
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Further, Pete got the Maltese surname Buttigieg from his father, Joseph Anthony Buttigieg, who was born in Hamrun, Malta.
Due to his parents’ different family backgrounds, Pete Buttigieg is of mixed Maltese and American ethnicity, follows the Christian religion, and holds American nationality.
Pete Buttigieg parents from different countries met at New Mexico State University!
Peter’s father, Joseph Anthony Buttigieg II, and mother, Jennifer Anne, first met at New Mexico State University during their professional career.
Joseph Anthony Buttigieg had moved to the US from Malta to pursue his doctorate. During his education in the US, he met his wife, Jennifer Anne, with whom he later married and settled in the US.
Joseph started working as an English professor at the University of Notre Dame near South Bend, and Pete’s mother, Jennifer, also taught at the same university for almost three decades.
Before working as a professor, Peter’s father used to work as a translator and editor. He translated the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, which influenced his pursuit of literature in college.
After years of marital life, the couple had their first and only child, Pete Buttigieg, on January 19, 1982, in South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
As educated parents, they provided quality education to their child, Pete Buttigieg, who graduated from Harvard College and majored in history and literature like his father.
Further, he also attended the University of Oxford after receiving a Rhodes Scholarship and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in arts.
Additional Information
- Pete Buttigieg served as the 32nd Mayor of South Bend for eight years, from January 1, 2012, to January 1, 2020.
- Before entering politics, he worked as a naval officer and was the 19th United States Secretary of Transportation.
- Pete Buttigieg publicly came out as gay in 2015, becoming one of the first openly gay men to launch a major party presidential campaign. He is married to Chasten Glezman, a schoolteacher and writer.
