32 Facts About Pete Campbell

Peter Dyckman Campbell was born on February 28,1934 and is a fictional character on AMC's television series Mad Men.

Pete Campbell was born to an upper-crust White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Manhattan family in 1934.

In Season 2, after his father dies on American Airlines Flight 1 over Jamaica Bay, Pete Campbell is unable to cry.

Later in Season 2, Pete Campbell reveals that he hates his mother.

In Season 1, Pete Campbell often expresses a desire to be treated seriously in business.

Pete Campbell can appear spiteful and cold to people he feels have mistreated him in some way.

In later seasons, Pete Campbell has changed and saves Don from being exposed as an imposter.

Pete Campbell is said to have attended The Buckley School, Deerfield Academy, and Dartmouth College, and it is implied that he was in the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at the latter.

Pete Campbell is one of only two main characters who is a non-smoker, the other being Bertram Cooper.

Pete Campbell is overjoyed until he discovers that he is actually a "co-head" of the department, sharing the position with Ken Cosgrove.

Pete Campbell becomes enraged and lashes out at Cosgrove, despite the fact that the new management clearly intends to play the two off each other.

Pete Campbell marries Trudy Vogel, a young woman from a nouveau riche family, in March 1960.

Pete Campbell's parents refuse to help the couple pay for the apartment, but Trudy's parents eagerly pitch in, much to Pete Campbell's discomfort.

Trudy's parents pressure the couple to try to have a baby, which Pete Campbell is reluctant to do.

Trudy and her parents pressure Pete Campbell to look into adoption.

Pete Campbell is at first uncomfortable with the idea but agrees to think about it, and mentions this to his brother.

When Pete Campbell finds out that Trudy has put their name on a list to meet with a prominent local adoption agency, he shouts at her, throws the dinner she cooked off their balcony, and forbids her from going through with the adoption.

Trudy decides to stay at her parents' house during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Pete Campbell refuses to go with her, stating that if he is going to die, he wants to die in Manhattan.

Pete Campbell initially meets Peggy on her first day as Don's new secretary, in March 1960.

Pete Campbell makes rude comments about her appearance, calling her "Howdy Dowdy", for which Don scolds him.

Pete Campbell is last seen sitting alone in his dark office, holding a rifle on his lap.

In Season 4, the agency drops Clearasil because of a conflict with another account, but Pete Campbell is able to manipulate his father-in-law into giving him several larger accounts from that company instead.

Pete Campbell was a domineering husband, such as when he scolded Trudy for signing up for an adoption agency without his permission.

Also, he was angry at her for not sleeping with her ex-beau, who, now a publishing executive, could have gotten a story Pete Campbell published in a prestigious publication had she slept with him.

Pete Campbell engaged in at least three extramarital affairs in the first years of their marriage.

However, Pete Campbell seems regretful of his infidelities after he sleeps with a German au pair.

Pete Campbell begins an affair with Beth Dawes, the unhappy wife of a fellow commuter, which ends after she has a round of electroshock therapy to cure her undiagnosed depression and, as a result, forgets who he is.

However, in a later episode, "For Immediate Release", Pete Campbell loses his father-in-law's account after they run into each other at a brothel.

Pete Campbell makes it plain she doesn't believe him and wouldn't care if he were telling the truth, after which she throws him out.

Pete Campbell offers a sincere apology to Trudy, who accepts and lets him say goodbye to his daughter.

Pete Campbell brings her to New York on a trip in season 7, but ends up canceling their plans after visiting Trudy and Tammy, and becoming distressed at how distant he has become from them, with Tammy not seeming to recognize or be interested in him.

The reunited Pete Campbell family is last seen happily boarding a Lear Jet for their new life in Kansas.