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15 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
If confirmed, Pete Buttigieg will be one of the youngest presidential cabinet members in history (he turns 39 next month) and likely the youngest in 60 years -- since Bobby Kennedy was confirmed as Attorney General in 1961.
Interestingly--thank you to @emilyaheil, who already did great reporting on this seven years ago--most of the youngest cabinet members in recent history were Secretaries of Transportation, too:

42 -- Anthony Foxx (2013)
39 -- Jim Burnley (1987)
39 -- Neil Goldschmidt (1979)
The two exceptions were:

41 -- Bill Barr (1991, Attorney General)
39 -- Andrew Cuomo (1997, Secretary of HUD)

washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-l…
Great point on former Sec. Castro, who was 39 when confirmed as Secretary of HUD, a month before this was written. I always think of him as much wiser than his years. 😅

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When they first see the dinosaurs it gets me every time 😭😭😭
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But changing the day of the presidential election would only require a new law to repeal and replace the Presidential Election Day Act. However: filibuster. :(
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