Who is Pete Buttigieg? Meet one of the six top names on Harris’s VP short list

Who is Pete Buttigieg? Meet one of the six top names on Harris’s VP short list

Pete Buttigieg, sec­re­tary of trans­porta­tion and for­mer may­or of South Bend, Indi­ana, has returned to the pub­lic spot­light as a pos­si­ble run­ning mate for Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris, the pre­sump­tive Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee.
A can­di­date for pres­i­dent in 2020, Buttigieg is a Rhodes schol­ar and the first open­ly gay man in a pres­i­den­tial Cab­i­net posi­tion. Among the swirling rumors about his role in 2024, Buttigieg has revealed he is open to join­ing Har­ris on the Demo­c­ra­t­ic tick­et but “is not in that mode right now.”
Age
Buttigieg was born on Jan. 19, 1982. He is 42 years old, mak­ing him the youngest mem­ber of Biden’s Cab­i­net and the youngest per­son to ever serve as trans­porta­tion sec­re­tary.
Home­town
Buttigieg was born in South Bend, Indi­ana, the fourth largest city in the state. It sits just south of the Michi­gan bor­der and once boomed in …