What Were You Doing When You Were 19?

This guy…

…John Tyler Hammons, is a 19 year old Political Science and Public Administration student at the University of Oklahoma and, the new Mayor of Muskogee. From AP.

With all precincts reporting, John Tyler Hammons won with 70 percent of the vote over former Mayor Hershel Ray McBride, said Muskogee County Election Board Secretary Bill Bull.

“The public placing their trust in me is the greatest, humbling and most awesome experience I’ve ever had in my life,” said Hammons, who is from Muskogee but attends the university in Norman.

Hammons, who will be sworn in next week, said he plans to continue his college education but expects to transfer to a school closer to Muskogee.

“Being elected does not change my desire to continue my education,” he said. “We will schedule our time in an appropriate fashion so that I can be mayor and stay in school.”

The over achieving Okie doesn’t plan on resting on his laurels either; from Hammons’ website.

Upon receiving his bachelor’s, Tyler would like to go on to either earn a law degree or an MBA. No matter what he decides to do, Tyler hopes to enter into politics by serving both the people of Oklahoma and the United States by serving as the Governor of Oklahoma and then as the President of the United States.

Well, is that all, Tyler? At the rate you are going, you will end your second term as Pres and still be 30 something. What then, complete world domination? Master of the Universe?

Well done young man. Give those old fogies hell.

Leather boots are still in style for manly footwear;
Beads and Roman sandals won’t be seen.
Football’s still the roughest thing on campus,
And the kids here still respect the college dean.

We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.