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Pete Hegseth

Pete Hegseth

Acting
06 Jun 1980 (46 years)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Biography

Peter Brian Hegseth (born June 6, 1980) is an American government official and former television personality who has served since 2025 as the 29th United States secretary of defense. Hegseth studied politics at Princeton University, where he was the publisher of The Princeton Tory, a conservative student newspaper. In 2003, he was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Minnesota Army National Guard, serving at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Hegseth worked fo...

Also Known As

Peter Brian Hegseth

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