You’re right, of course, but there were at least two OTHER candidates running with that qualification: Gary Coleman and Mary Carey.
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Many elections have had ‘joke candidates’; usually, they don’t make it into office… but after 2016, “all bets” seem to be “off.”
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Hartlepool in the UK elected their football club mascot as mayor in 2002.
Everything I have seen suggests H’Angus did a far better job as mayor than Trump has done as president. Stuart Drummond got re-elected under his own name twice more before local mayoral elections were abolished there.
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The town of Sunol, California elected a dog as mayor.
The town is unincorporated, and there is no official office of mayor, but still.
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Going the other way: there are no-longer-existing towns in France that still elect a Mayor.
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The difference in this case is that the people of Hartlepool elected a man who dressed as a monkey to run their local government for them.
According to the wikipedia article, Peter Mandelson (Hartlepool’s MP (Lab) at the time and Dark Lord of the Sith) was angry and forbade him from wearing the mascot suit while he was mayor.
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