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I remember him getting a bit of national press coverage when he won. There are a number of legitimate articles that can be found on Google and his youth does, in my opinion, go a long way towards establishing notability. He started running for office when he was 17 and became mayor at 18, that is
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He still remains one of the youngest mayors in the US right now. He's young enough that he garnered quite a bit of attention for it. Notability can be established by the multiple, non-trivial sources about him. It's very rare for someone who is 18 to run for and win an actual public office.
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Christopher Seeley meets the notability for local politicians. If he doesn't meet notability than I doubt that any local politician could meet notability and I disagree with that. While an article cannot be created for every local politician it makes sense that those who are
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