Pete Buttigieg 2020: Meet the South Bend Mayor Looking to Become America's First Millennial President

(From March 10, 2019) Mayor Pete Buttigieg wants to be America's first millennial president. At 37, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is also the first openly gay person to launch a bid for the nation's highest office.

While some may argue that going from leading a city of about 100,000 residents to governing the world's most powerful country may be a big step, Buttigieg (pronounced BOOT-edge-edge) believes small-town politics and putting the American people first are exactly what a divided Washington needs right now. And as he previously told CBS News, he already has "more experience in government" than President Donald Trump and "more executive experience" than Vice President Mike Pence.

A graduate of Harvard College, Buttigieg went on to study at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and spent a stint working as a consultant at McKinsey. In 2010, he made his entry into politics. And while his bid to become Indiana's State Treasurer proved unsuccessful his political ambitions were undiminished. He set his sights on becoming the mayor of South Bend, and the following year was elected by 74 percent of voters. (READ MORE at Newsweek)