All About Pete Wentz's Parents, Mom Dale and Dad Pete

Pete Wentz was born to mom Dale and dad Pete in 1979

Pete Wentz’s parents, mom Dale and dad Pete Wentz II, noticed the musician's creativity early on.

Born as Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III on June 5, 1979, the Fall Out Boy bassist was raised in Wilmette, Illinois, alongside his siblings Hilary and Andrew.

Prior to Pete's rise to fame in the music industry, he had a normal upbringing with his siblings in the Chicago suburb. His father spoke about his son's passion for music during an episode of the Fathering Excellence podcast in October 2020.

“I think he just had that within him, the desire to really be successful with his creative passion and ... I don’t think I, or anyone can really take credit for that obviously, so that we take credit, it will be more that we’ve allowed it,” Pete II told host Jonathan V.

He further explained, “I mean he would go drive a hundred miles to some concert, just if he could get backstage and meet somebody who could help him get to some other level that he would want to get to.”

Here's everything to about Pete Wentz’s parents, Dale and Pete Wentz II.

They met while working for Joe Biden

Pete has President Joe Biden to thank for bringing his parents together. On the day Biden’s presidential win was called in 2020, the musician shared a photo of himself being held as a child by the president-elect with his mother standing next to him.

“My parents met working for Joe Biden in the Senate in the 70s. To me he is a beacon of empathy, compassion and kindness,” Pete wrote on Instagram. “The times we live in call for a leader with these specific traits. Proud to call Joe Biden my president.”

This wasn’t the first time Wentz revealed his family’s connection to politics. On the day of the 2008 election, with Biden on the ticket as Barack Obama’s running mate, Pete’s father shared more about meeting Dale.

“I have spent the weekend and now working on the Obama campaign,” the musician wrote on his website at the time, quoting his father’s words. “Mom and I met in Washington when we were both legislative assistants to Senator Biden when he was in his first term. I had worked in his campaign and your mother had been in the Foreign Service. We started out as friends and the rest is history."

They share three children together

Dale and Pete II are parents to three children: Pete, Hilary and Andrew.

The Grammy Award nominee has not shared much about his younger siblings, but their father opened up about raising the trio on the Fathering Excellence podcast.

“They were very good kids, in the sense that they didn’t get themselves into a lot of trouble in school or elsewhere,” he said.

Pete II added, “And I think particularly Andrew and Hilary, because they’re closer in age, y’know bonded a little more, but they all, I think looked up to Peter. And since he was the older and learned a lot from him and also learned maybe from, if he got in trouble a little bit, they’d know what to avoid.”

Pete II and Dale are grandparents to Pete's three kids, Bronx Mowgli, Saint Lazslo and Marvel Jane, plus daughter Hilary’s three children.

Dale worked at her son’s high school

Pete and his siblings were raised in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago. He graduated in 1997 from North Shore Country Day School, a co-ed private school in nearby Winnetka, where Dale later worked.

“She ended up becoming head of admissions at the school where Peter graduated from,” Pete II shared on the Fathering Excellence podcast of his wife. “But it was after he graduated before she went to work there.”

Pete II has worked as a lawyer and professor

Pete II previously worked as “a general counsel of a company for about 20 years,” before moving to work as the associate dean of Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law and teach a course, he shared with the Fathering Excellence podcast.

In addition to still teaching at the school as an adjunct professor, he is the executive director of APCO Worldwide’s Chicago office, a communications and global public affairs firm where he specializes in crisis management corporate reputation for clients.

Dale has political connections in her family

Aside from her work with Biden, Dale has political connections within her own family.

Her late father, Arthur Winston Lewis, served as the U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone from 1983 to 1986. Prior to his Ambassador role, he worked as the Cultural Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Zambia, and worked for the United States Information Agency (USIA) in Ethiopia and Nigeria.

Lewis’ cousin was Gen. Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. Secretary of State and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Pete's mom and dad had different parenting styles

Pete II believes he and Dale had different parenting styles when it came to raising their three children, with him being the more “easygoing” one.

“She tended to be more of the stickler for some of the legitimate rules and I tended to be more easygoing about it,” he explained on the Fathering Excellence podcast. “I think you have to work that way because you can’t both be one or both be the other, or there’s no guidance whatsoever to the kids."

Pete II added, "I would always back her up, but we might have conversations later about maybe we should’ve handled something differently.”

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