Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg will headline a town-hall meeting Saturday in North Augusta after attending several weekend events in South Carolina.

Spokesman Andrew Mamo said Buttigieg will hold a town hall meeting at 5 p.m. at Maude Edenfield Park, 495 Brookside Ave.

Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., is a Rhodes scholar, Afghanistan War veteran and would be the nation's first openly gay president. He also would be the youngest person to become president, turning 39 the day before the next inauguration, and the first mayor to go directly to the White House, according to the Associated Press.

First elected mayor of South Bend in 2011, Buttigieg from 2009 to 2017 served as an intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve, reaching the rank of lieutenant. In 2014, he took a leave of absence as mayor for a seven-month deployment to Afghanistan, where he was assigned to the Afghan Threat Finance Cell, which targeted Taliban financing.

Buttigieg is the son of a Maltese-American professor at Notre Dame, and his last name is derived from the Arabic word for poulterer. According to his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, the name can be pronounced "Buddha-judge" or "boot-edge-edge."

He will be the second presidential hopeful to visit the Augusta area ahead of South Carolina's Feb. 29 Democratic presidential primary and Georgia's March 24 primary. Last month, Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders spoke at the Jessye Norman Amphitheater in Augusta. Last week, actor and activist Danny Glover campaigned for Sanders in Aiken.

This weekend, 17 major Democratic hopefuls including Buttigieg and Sanders have confirmed they will appear at several South Carolina events, including the state Democratic convention Saturday in Columbia, according to the state party.