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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.
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Biden accepts Democratic presidential nomination as convention ends
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Mayor Pete: 'Love made my marriage real, but political courage made it possible'Several of Biden's rivals in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination spoke, including Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who burst onto the national scene last year and became the first gay man to win a U.S.
presidential nominating contest when he won the Iowa caucus in February. Buttigieg, who served in the U.S. military in Afghanistan, said that progress in the fight for LGBTQ rights shows how progressive change is still possible in America."Just over 10 years ago, I joined a military where firing me because of who I am wasn't just possible — it was policy," Buttigieg said, referring to Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
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Lia Thomas Is Cleared to Swim at N.C.A.A. Championships
The N.C.A.A. on Friday cleared the way for the swimmer Lia Thomas, a transgender woman who has turned in the top times in the country in two events, to compete in the N.C.A.A. championships next month, saying that implementing new rules for testosterone testing in the middle of the season would be unfair to transgender athletes.
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