Pete Buttigieg is the former two-term mayor of South Bend and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. A Rhodes scholar and U.S. Navy veteran, Buttigieg, whose first book, Shortest Way Home, became a New York Times best-seller, was educated at Harvard and Oxford. He currently serves as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, based in Washington, D.C. He lives with his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, and their two dogs.
