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 across Minnesota before retiring in 2019, … 展开

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-markets a… 展开

On November 12, 2024, U.S. then-President-elect Donald Trump named Hegseth as his nominee for secretary of defense, after Arkansas senator Tom Cotton announced he would not serve as secretary. He su… 展开

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