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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 05:41, 26 September 2016 (UTC) reply

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Never elected to an office higher than mayor of a small town, appears to have only run once for higher office and received less than two percent of the vote, does not appear to have received noteworthy media attention. Fails WP:POLITICIAN. -- 1990'sguy ( talk) 21:54, 18 September 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arkansas-related deletion discussions. 1990'sguy ( talk) 21:54, 18 September 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. 1990'sguy ( talk) 21:54, 18 September 2016 (UTC) reply

• Strong delete Gray was mayor of a place with under 1,500 inhabitants. He was a minor party candidate for Senate. Candidates for senate need extremely good coverage for their articles to survive if not elected and that being their top claim to notability, and he very much lacks such. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 02:31, 19 September 2016 (UTC) reply
• Delete. Yet another NN very small town mayor. -- Necrothesp ( talk) 11:49, 19 September 2016 (UTC) reply
• Delete. Smalltown mayors do not get Wikipedia articles just for being mayors, non-winning candidates for higher office do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates, and the sourcing here — an alt-weekly and a blog — is nowhere near strong enough to claim that he passes WP:GNG in lieu of failing WP:NPOL. Bearcat ( talk) 22:22, 19 September 2016 (UTC) reply
• Delete: per WP:POLITICIAN. Safehaven86 ( talk) 00:41, 22 September 2016 (UTC) reply

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