For 20 years, a cat served as mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska.
The cat — named Stubbs — was elected as a write-in candidate in 1997 when, it seems, the human candidates were lacking. Stubbs went on to serve as honorary mayor for 20 years until his death in 2017.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - - Mark Twain
not misleading at all, but you missunderstood it apparantly.