A Hamilton College alumnus is reportedly on Hillary Clinton's short list of VP candidates.

Media outlets are calling US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack a "dark horse" candidate.

CNN points to Vilsack as the person on the list Clinton can trust most and the safest pick of all.

Fellow classmate and retired senior vice president at PepsiCo Inc. Matt McKenna ’72 observed, “Tom's themes of community, education and enthusiasm for causes would not come as a surprise to any of his classmates at Hamilton College. We knew him as someone who liked competing but liked winning, too. It should not be a surprise that he has never lost an election."

Vilsack, the former Governor of Iowa, is a 1972 graduate of Hamilton College.

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