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18-year-old Jaylen Smith has been elected the mayor of Earle, Arkansas on Tuesday night, becoming the youngest Black mayor in the United States.

Smith won the election with 218 votes, compared to his competitor’s 139.

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Smith announced his win in a Facebook post, saying ""It's Time To Build A Better Chapter of Earle, Arkansas."



By FOX13Memphis.com News Staff
December 06, 2022 at 9:49 pm CST

EARLE, Ark. — Jaylen Smith was elected the mayor of Earle, Ark., on Tuesday night, becoming the youngest Black mayor in the United States.

Smith, 18, defeated Nemi Matthews Sr. in a runoff election.

Smith had 218 votes, compared to Matthews’ 139, according to election results.

Matthews is the superintendent of Earle with more than four decades of experience working in the small Arkansas town, which has a population of under 2,000 people and is situated about 30 miles northwest of Memphis.

In an interview with FOX13 last month, Smith, who recently graduated from high school, talked about his goals if he was elected the mayor of Earle.

“First, I want to improve public safety here. Secondly, tear down abandoned houses … transportation here for the community, bring a grocery store here,” he said.

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Is this farm

Whenever I see a story about a young mayor and sh*t I think of this

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Dope af

Imagine being the grown man that lost office to an 18 yr old

politics needs young blood

Now can he manage a budget or will those people have a field day behind his back?

congrats, young man!!

We need to get these old dinosaurs who are out of touch out of office.

Props to him.... Lord knows I wouldn't want those kind of responsibilities at 18 no matter how big or small the town is

POWER RAPS said Imagine being the grown man that lost office to an 18 yr old

just mad in front of the mirror.

Mr Tibbs said just mad in front of the mirror.

Ego bruised like a MF

Without Warning said Now can he manage a budget or will those people have a field day behind his back?

You already know funds are getting misappropriated left and right behind that kid's back. Good luck to him though!

Keep em safe...he can be the president one day and clean this mess

My uncle’s wife’s people are from Earle. That area up through there is surrounded by racists and there’s really nothing infrastructure wise for that community. That being said I hope he can make some kind of positive changes for the folks up there, but Black and only 18, it’ll be a long shot.

Without Warning said Now can he manage a budget or will those people have a field day behind his back?

im sure hell learn on the fly just like anyone else would do

dont be stupid

“becoming the youngest Black mayor in the United States.”

Is there a younger Mayor than him?

Without Warning said Now can he manage a budget or will those people have a field day behind his back?

They have a field day out in the open in our faces .

Don’t try to make this an exclusive concern in regards to Jaylen.

HeightsBound said “becoming the youngest Black mayor in the United States.” Is there a younger Mayor than him?

Was wondering the same thing ?

Youngsters kicking up dust.

This cat is 23.

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Pretty cool! Congrats to this young man. Untouched and not jaded by corruption and adult life. Maybe it's the intelligent youth that can make a difference.

The population is less than 2000 people.. That’s what’s up though. He now controls the police down there. I know both them cops mad as sh*t. Probably didn’t vote either.

Amazing achievement!

All the best in the future young King

Dumb sh*t dude has no world experience he shouldnt be running sh*t but hot dog stand