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Pete Buttigieg will be in Marshalltown from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. April 17 at the home of Kim and Allan Smith, 409 Park St., for a meet and greet visit.
The mayor of South Bend, Indiana since 2012, he recently launched a presidential exploratory committee as a Democrat. He was first elected mayor in 2011 at 29 years old, and re-elected in 2015 with 80 percent of the vote. He served as a lieutenant in the Navy Reserve and took an unpaid seven months leave during his mayoral term in 2014 for a deployment to Afghanistan. For his counterterrorism work, he earned the Joint Service Commendation Medal.