3-year-old becomes mayor of US town!

August 12, 2015 19:27

A 3-year-old boy in the US has become the youngest mayor of a small US town and has been advised by his elder brother who has held the post previously to be nice and "no poopy talk".

James Tufts, 3, was elected as the new mayor of Dorset -- the youngest mayor to lead the small tourist town in northern Minnesota. The spunky redhead was sworn into the ceremonial role on August 2 during the town's local food festival.

His brother Robert Tufts served two terms when he was 3 and 4, his proud family said.

"He (James) kind of fell into it. He went with his brother to shake hands with him and talk to people. He would introduce himself as the mayor when he wasn't. He would tell people he was the vice mayor depending on how he was feeling. That's just what he wanted to do," his mother Emma Tufts told the New York Daily News.

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