Pete Buttigieg: podcast appearances and interviews

Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an American politician and former naval officer who served as the 19th United States secretary of transportation from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020. During his tenure as mayor, Buttigieg was known as 'Mayor Pete.' He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Oxford, attending the latter as a Rhodes Scholar. Buttigieg worked at McKinsey & Company from 2007 to 2010 and served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve from 2009 to 2017, including a seven-month deployment to Afghanistan in 2014. Before his election as mayor, he was involved in Democratic political campaigns and ran unsuccessfully for Indiana state treasurer in 2010. In 2015, he publicly came out as gay, and he married Chasten Glezman, a schoolteacher and writer, in June 2018. Buttigieg sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, making history as the first openly gay man to run in a major party's primary and the first openly gay candidate to win a presidential caucus or primary with his victory in Iowa. After dropping out and endorsing Joe Biden, Buttigieg was nominated by Biden to serve as Secretary of Transportation. His confirmation made him the first openly gay Cabinet secretary in U.S. history. At age 38, he was also the youngest person to hold a Cabinet position in the Biden administration.