Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eldridge Hawkins, Jr.
Passes Criteria 2 of : "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage" per http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/orange_mayor_eldridge_hawkins.html this lengthy article in the ''New Jersey Star-Ledger'' (a statewide paper, not local to the town he was the mayor of); national coverage http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1103/28/qmb.01.html here, and http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/01/cnr.01.html here on CNN; and https://www.google.com/search?q=Hotmail&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&client=firefox-a&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&sclient=psy-ab&q=Eldridge+Hawkins++site:.foxbusiness.com&oq=Eldridge+Hawkins++site:.foxbusiness.com&gs_l=serp.12...133308.142470.4.144161.8.7.1.0.0.0.138.794.1j6.7.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.2.serp.tIiJpm19I5E&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42261806,d.d2k&fp=612a7c75282cfa4d&biw=1024&bih=444 here on Fox News. There are also references to support the facts that he was the town's youngest ever mayor http://www.ci.orange.nj.us/history_main.html here and that he was selected by ''Ebony Magazine'' in 2009 as an “Outstanding Young American Leader http://www.familysystem.net/files/Ebony_magazine_article.pdf here
— User:Voceditenore, 17:33, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:POLITICIAN (Wikipedia:Notability)