The Small Island Man That Helped Spark a Revolution

You might be familiar with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. This 41-year-old former mayor of South Bend was born into a relatively comfortable life with well-educated parents in Indiana. However, Pete’s father’s early life was quite contrasting. He was born in 1947 and grew up in Hamrun, in war-torn Malta, a small Mediterranean island nation with a population of only about 300,000 people during that era. If we move the clock back even further to 1732, another individual, not widely recognized, who would play a role in America’s future, was about to be born on the island of Malta.

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