page_title: Pete Buttigieg
section_title: Second term
hierarchical_section_title: Pete Buttigieg / Mayor of South Bend, Indiana / Second term
caption_attribution_description: English: An Aerial photo of Downtown South Bend from above the river. Things in view include the tower, the key bank building, the County/City building, Century Center, Double Tree Hotel, AT&amp;T building, and the west race of the river. You can see the people on Jefferson Street enjoying the South Bend 150th Anniversary Weekend festivities.
context_page_description: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an American politician and Afghanistan War veteran. He served as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020 and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election.
  Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University, attending the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship. He was a consultant at the management consulting firm McKinsey from 2007 to 2010. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He was mobilized and deployed to Afghanistan for seven months in 2014.
  Before running for office, Buttigieg worked on the political campaigns of Democrats Jill Long Thompson, Joe Donnelly, and John Kerry. Buttigieg was the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from January 2012 to January 2020, earning him the nickname "Mayor Pete". Buttigieg came out as gay in 2015.
  Buttigieg launched his campaign for the 2020 United States presidential election on April 14, 2019. He became the first openly gay person to launch a major presidential campaign.
caption: The South Bend 150th Anniversary festivities, where Buttigieg performed live with singer-songwriter Ben Folds
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