Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser)Pete Campbell is an executive at the successful Manhattan advertising agency Sterling Cooper. His job is to secure clients and keep them happy, essentially by any means necessary. This means could mean everything from wining and dining them, taking them out to Broadway, and even securing female company for them.Pete is good at his job but that does not leave him satisfied. Although he has a knack for smoothing things over with the temperamental clients he longs to work in the more creative area of the agency even though this is not his forte. Because of this desire he both ires and is envious of the skilled creative director Don Draper with whom he sometimes butts heads on concepts and clients.Pete comes from a very wealthy, WASP-y Manhattan family that made its money through real estate. He was raised in a commensurate manner of privilege attending private schools and developing a highly patrician air that can sometimes translate into snobby, prissy behavior. Pete is more progressive in his political views then one might guess from his privileged background.Pete is often in a sour mood and has a nagging feeling of being shortchanged, overlooked, or not taken as seriously as he would like. He is given to petulant outbursts and self-destructive behavior.Pete is married to Trudy with whom he lives on the Upper East Side.He becomes close to Don Draper's secretary Peggy Olson. Show less «