John Fetterman is the 34th and current Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Mayor of Braddock from 2005 to 2019. In 2018, he defeated incumbent Lieutenant Governor Mike Stack in the Democratic primary and was subsequently elected to the lieutenant governorship in the general election.
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John Fetterman is the 34th and current Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Mayor of Braddock from 2005 to 2019. A native of York, Pennsylvania, he earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Albright College in 1991 and a master’s in public policy from Harvard University. He moved to Braddock in 2001 to serve with AmeriCorps and start a non-profit organization, Braddock Redux. In 2018, he defeated incumbent Lieutenant Governor Mike Stack in the Democratic primary and was subsequently elected to the lieutenant governorship in the general election, along with incumbent Governor Tom Wolf. He has made environmental protection, gay rights, immigration and marijuana legalization major campaign issues. On his arm are the numbers 15104 – Braddock’s ZIP Code – that dates back to 15104, the date of the first murders in the town. He is also shown with various tattoos that are shown on his arm, that are on the right and the left, that date the dates of the five murders in Braddock, on the left and the right of the ZIP Code, that dates the 15104 murders.
He also has a tattoo of the town’s name, which reads: “Braddock, Pennsylvania. I Love You Braddock”. He has also been featured in The New York Times, The Colbert Report, as well as a Levi’s jeans ad. He was also featured in an episode of The Colbert Show, in which he appeared as a guest on the show’s “The Colbert Report” segment about the economy. He currently lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and their two children. They have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, and a daughter who are all college-educated and have no plans to go to college. He previously worked as a Big Brother for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, pairing with an eight-year-old boy in New Haven, Connecticut, whose father had died from AIDS, and whose mother was battling the disease. He says he became ‘preoccupied with the concept of the random lottery of birth’ and promised the boy’s mother he would continue to look out for her son.
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