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2005
The honor: The Rhodes Scholarship — the oldest international scholarship in the world, tenable at the University of Oxford — went in the American election for 2005 to a South Bend native who had just graduated from Harvard: Pete Buttigieg, born in this city on 19 January 1982 to two Notre Dame professors, raised here, and schooled here through St. Joseph High School, where he was valedictorian. He had taken his Harvard degree in history and literature in 2004, magna cum laude, and been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. At Oxford he read philosophy, politics and economics at Pembroke College and took the degree with first-class honours in 2007. The tie needs no strengthening: this is the born-and-raised case, the scholarship's own elect list carrying a name this city produced entire. What he did with the formation afterward — the consulting years, the Navy reserve, the two terms as this city's mayor that made him a national figure — stands in the Government and People records; the ledger entry is the scholarship, its college, and its class year.
Sources:
- The Rhodes Trust's American secretary, "American Rhodes Scholars-Elect for 2005" — Buttigieg's election; Harvard University Gazette, Rhodes announcement, 2004.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Harvard record — the South Bend birth and upbringing, the 2004 Harvard degree, Pembroke College, Oxford, and the first-class honours degree in philosophy, politics and economics, 2007.
- The Government and People sections of this history for the mayoralty and the profile.