Learn about the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., and current U.S. Secretary of Transportation, who is a Harvard and Oxford graduate and a Rhodes Scholar. Find out his background, achievements, and personal details, such as his husband, children, and languages.

He was his high school's valedictorian and also matriculated to Harvard University as a history and literature major. After graduating in 2004, he became a Rhodes Scholar at the University of...

Learn about Pete Buttigieg, the U.S. secretary of transportation and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Find out his education background, from Harvard and Oxford to McKinsey & Company, and his political achievements and challenges.

Learn about the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and current secretary of transportation's academic background. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and literature from Harvard and a bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship.

Read CNN's Pete Buttigieg Fast Facts and learn more about the secretary of transportation and former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.

Pete was born and raised into a modest family in a neighborhood of South Bend, Indiana. His father, Joseph Buttigieg, was an immigrant from Malta and was a professor of literature at The University of Notre Dame at South Bend. Pete’s mother, Jennifer Anne, was a professor at Notre Dame for 29 years.

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2004, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in History and Literature and writing his thesis on the influence of puritanism on U.S. foreign policy as reflected in the Graham Greene novel The Quiet American.

Buttigieg received bachelor's degrees from Harvard University and Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar. Before his time in political office, he worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company and was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve, completing a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2014.

Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg [1] (/ ˈ b uː t ə ˌ dʒ ɛ dʒ /; [2] born January 19, 1982) is an American politician. He is the 19th and current United States Secretary of Transportation during the Joe Biden administration.