Have you ever looked into a the soulful eyes of a dog or the steely , merciless peepers of a shark and thought , “ I would follow you anywhere , if only you would take . ” Sometimes , they ’ve done just that . We ’re going to take a look at the best brute ever to contain , or run for , public office . Get ready to lay some newspaper down on the tail of power , because not all candidates are housebroken .
1 . Incitatus Did It First
Man , the Romans get to everything first . Or do they ? There are all kinds of hearsay about Incitatus , the ill-famed Caligula ’s preferred horse . We ’re not sure whether Incitatus was made a Senator , was soon to become a consul when Caligula was vote down , or was only a rumor created by Caligula ’s enemy . Whatever his status , he emphatically ran on the popular , “ Support me and you wo n’t be killed , ” tag – which had worked so well for humans both before and after . What is n’t in query is the sawhorse survive the life of the kind of Roman who would n’t have a problem running for office . He was said to have a marble unchanging , a full complement of handmaiden , and exhaust oat mix with gold flakes . citizenry would be invited to dine at the cavalry ’s house . Some people see the aggrandizement of Incitatus ( historians first thought it was an a historical trueness rather than rumour because the horse outwear apparel model on that of a consul ) , as a grade of fury in Caligula . Others say that he was only throw a satiric point as to how useless and demoralized the actual assembly was . Either elbow room , Incitatus is perhaps the most famous non - human political science official .
2 . Pigasus the Immortal Will Let You Eat Him
The most notable American animal politician has to be Pigasus the Immortal , who was make for to the 1968 Democratic National Convention . The Yippies , Youth International Party , endorsed Pigasus as their campaigner , one the undercoat that normally campaigner were elect and use up the people , but this candidate would be elect and then eaten by the people . That , they maintained , was the only conflict between their campaigner and any other in the United States . Pigasus might have been able to consort for office ( both dogs and khat have run since then ) but he was not allowed to be walk around the street of Chicago , because he was technically livestock . Pigasus was aim to an Anti - Cruelty Society playpen . His handlers were conduct to jail . The entire brouhaha smother the 1968 rule ended up with the infamous Chicago Eight ( and then Chicago Seven ) being try on .
3 . Not that Lucy Lou
Not all fauna have as hard a political words to hoe as Pigasus . Lucy Lou ( mention the different spelling ) ran for the position of mayor of Rabbit Hash , Kentucky . This might have been novel in some other township , but in Rabbit Hash , an animal had a better hazard than a human . The precious city manager was a black lab , and Lucy was running against dogs , cats , a mule , and an phalanger . Lucy became Mayor Lou when she got 8,000 votes . The exclusive human running for mayor dropped out of the backwash on Election Day with what had to be a bit of a glowering grant speech . The other animals dealt with the snow as best they could .
4 . Tuxedo Stan is imposing in frustration
The trick to a successful animal campaign is to keep it free of “ issues . ” Tuxedo Stan , a medium - haired tuxedo cat , very recently made a brave running play for mayor of Halifax by trying to keep the focus on Halifax ’s problem with feral cats . Spay and neuter service are few , and not many resident have taken advantage of them , guide to a huge blowup of homeless cats . A noble cause , but a bummer . Tuxedo Stan induce a further setback when Anderson Cooper endorsed his candidacy on Anderson Cooper 360 on September 24th of this year , making Tuxedo Stan only the second cutest thing associated with his own military campaign . Although he and his campaign manager , Hugh and Kathy Chisholm , endure a dedicated run , Mike Savage swept the mayoral election as of October 20th .
5 . Cacareco Starts a Social Movement in Two Continents
It all started in Brazil in 1958 , where a rhino nominate Cacareco was put up for election for metropolis council in São Paulo . People were so sick of the putrescence that a Brobdingnagian majority did n’t even bother vote . The ones that did like a rhino far more than any of the useable candidates . Cacareco got 100,000 votes , more than any other party . Since then , vote in Brazil that were made specifically to piss off a somebody or political party are referred to as Cacareco votes . Meanwhile , in North America , the Canadian Rhinoceros Party sprang up and wassail to promote ridiculous platforms in honor of the brave rhino of São Paulo .
6 . Tião Was As Dishonest as the Rest of Them
Not all Brazilian politician can be as inspirational as Cacareco . Tião had neither the rhinoceros ’s temperament , nor his honor . A prospect endorsed by the Brazilian Banana Party in the 1980s , he ran on the slogan , “ Vote Monkey , Get Monkey . ” This was think of as a smack to sordid politician everywhere , and it was pretty successful . The Brazil Banana Party ’s candidate came in third . There was one trouble . Tião was a Pan troglodytes , which is an ape , and not a scallywag . Dirty politics . Sometimes animals are just as forged as the quietus of them .
7 . Billy and Tai Could n’t Take the Heat
It ’s been shown by the Lucy Lou fiasco that once mass go animal they seldom go back . But then , the citizens of Whangamomona , New Zealand incline to go their own way all the fourth dimension . When politicians re - drew boundary line contrast so that the citizen of Whangamomona were grouped in with another region they did n’t care , they declared themselves an independent region , and elected a chairwoman . Among these presidents was Billy the Goat . He served for four years . Tai the Poodle , who was the dog of a local bar owner , was elected shortly after Billy . Tai , unfortunately , was frightened away from the presidency stick to an assassination try . Today , the president is Murtle “ The Turtle ” Kennard , a human human race whose center name may have helped him win election .
8 . Boston Curtis Was Early Proof of the Problems of a Two - Party System
In 1938 , Republicans were proud of to see that Boston Curtis had won in the main election for committeeman for Milton , Washington . They were less than pleased when they mark that his signature on official text file required for his candidacy was a smear and not a scrawl . They were downright furious when they find out he was a mule . He had been entered in the election by Kenneth Simmons , the city manager of Milton , and a Democrat . ( Do n’t you wish that mayors would get up to this kind of material nowadays ? ) He need to let out the trouble of the election system by establish that a scuff could gain an early election as long as hoi polloi were n’t inform and feel they had no one else to represent them . Boston did not advance to further elections , sadly . There was a signature dispute .
9 . The Clay Henry Dynasty finish Bloodily
They say that America is the new Roman imperium . Looking at the Clay Henry saga , I ’d say we outflank the Romans in some respects . The hereditary soap opera that played out in Lajitas , Texas rivals the full of the Roman imperial dynasties , and go forth Incitatus well behind . Clay Henry had an alcoholic drink problem . He would wassail about thirty - five beers a sidereal day , and pass out by early good afternoon . He get all that beer , despite being unemployed , because people gave it to him . People yield it to him because he was a laughingstock who could chug a beer . They were so eager , in fact , that Clay Henry resulted in a bit of tourist revenue coming in through Lajitas . Eventually , he was elect mayor , as a retribution for his corking serve to the township .
lamentably , his reign was short and violent . He had a Logos who he also taught to drink . One night they saw a she - goat that they both loved . The father and son clashed , and the Clay Henry II violently butted his father to destruction . From then on , the killer engage his father ’s stead on the throne . No one in Lajitas had the force to wonder him . In clip , he had his own boy , who inherit his deed after he died . gall at the powerful goat dynasty was building , though , peculiarly in one man who dislike that it was illegal for world to drink beer on a Sunday , but perfectly legal for goat to do it . He sneaked into the pen one nighttime and castrated Clay Henry III . The man was arrested and blame with creature cruelty . After some surgery , Clay Henry III survived . His reign bear on .
Top trope : Zoned DK
Pig figure of speech : Petr Kratochvil
Chimp Image : Frans de Waal , Emory University / PLOS
Goat Image : USDA
ViaStrange account , Art by Crane , Roadside America , Porkopolis , Atlantic CTV , Rabbit Hash , CBC , The Houston Chronicle , Forgotten World Adventures , andThe Museum of Hoaxes .
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