Berkshire's Greg Abel Becomes U.S. Citizen at Iowa Cubs Game
Warren Buffett's chosen successor was naturalized at a minor-league ballpark ceremony in Des Moines alongside two dozen new citizens.
Greg Abel, the man tapped to eventually run Berkshire Hathaway, is now officially an American citizen — and he got sworn in at a baseball game. That's a power move.
Abel, born in Edmonton, Canada in 1962, has lived in Iowa for years. On Thursday night in Des Moines, he joined roughly two dozen other people from 16 different countries at the Iowa Cubs' annual naturalization ceremony. Minor-league baseball as the backdrop for a major life milestone? Hard to beat.
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For Berkshire watchers, this is more than a feel-good story. Abel is Warren Buffett's designated successor at the helm of one of the most closely followed conglomerates on the planet. His deep Iowa roots make this citizenship moment feel less like a formality and more like a long time coming.
The ceremony is an annual tradition the Iowa Cubs host, bringing together new Americans from across the globe under the lights of a ballpark. Abel was simply the most high-profile name in the crowd this year — a billionaire-in-waiting taking the same oath as his neighbors.
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