P.G. Sittenfeld

P.G. Sittenfeld
A promotional photo of Sittenfeld in Over-the-Rhine in 2015
Member of the Cincinnati City Council
Incumbent
Assumed office December 1, 2011
Personal details
Born	Alexander Paul George Sittenfeld (1984-10-01) October 1, 1984 (age 32) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Princeton University Magdalen College, Oxford City University London
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Website	Official website

Alexander Paul George "P.G." Sittenfeld (born October 1, 1984) is an American politician who has been a member of the City Council of Cincinnati since 2011, when he became the youngest person (age 27) ever elected to the position. He is a Democrat. In January 2015, he announced his 2016 bid for Ohio's U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Rob Portman. On March 15, 2016, Sittenfeld lost the Senate Democratic primary election to former Ohio Governor, Ted Strickland.

Sittenfeld was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother, Elizabeth "Betsy" Curtis (Bascom), is an art history teacher and librarian at Seven Hills School, a private school in Cincinnati, and his father, Paul George Sittenfeld, is an investment adviser. He and his sister, author Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld, attended Seven Hills School. His father is Jewish and his mother is Catholic, and he was raised Catholic. He attended Princeton University (Bachelor of Arts in English and American Studies, 2007), where he was elected president of the freshman class, and then attended graduate school at Magdalen College, Oxford (receiving his Master of Studies in English and American Studies, 2009) and the City University London (Master of Arts in Nonfiction Creative Writing, 2010 with distinction) as a Marshall Scholar. He worked as a summer intern at Google and Time.

Sittenfeld is co-founder and assistant director of the Community Learning Center Institute in Cincinnati.