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    Peter Brian Hegseth is an American television presenter, author, and National Guard officer who has served since January 2025 as the United States secretary of defense. Hegseth studied politics at Princeton University, where he published for The Princeton Tory, a conservative student newspaper. In 2003, he was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Minnesota National Guard, for whom he served at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Hegseth worked for several organizations after leaving Iraq, including as an executive director at Vets for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America. He became a contributor for Fox News in 2014. Hegseth served as an advisor to Trump after initially supporting his campaign in 2016. From 2017 to 2024, he was a co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend. He has written several books, including American Crusade and The War on Warriors.
    BornPeter Brian Hegseth · June 6, 1980 · Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
    Political partyRepublican
    SpousesMeredith Schwarz · (m. 2004; div. 2009) · Samantha Deering · (m. 2010; div. 2017) · Jennifer Rauchet (m. 2019)
    Children7
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    Early life and education (1980–2003)

    Peter Brian Hegseth was born on June 6, 1980, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was the first child of Brian and Penelope "Penny" Hegseth. Brian was a basketball coach for high schools in the Minnesota area before retiring in 2… See more

    Career

    After graduating from Princeton in June 2003, Hegseth commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army through the university's Reserve Officers' Training Corps program. He briefly worked as an equity-mar… See more

    Secretary of Defense (2025–present)

    On November 12, 2024, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump named Hegseth as his nominee for secretary of defense, after Arkansas senator Tom Cotton announced he wouuld not serve as secretary. He subsequent… See more

    Political positions

    Hegseth holds strongly conservative views and is a self-avowed Christian nationalist. In his book American Crusade (2020), Hegseth characterized "Americanism" as being opposition to movements such as feminism, globalism… See more

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