Strange But True 1 . For 20 years, a cat served as mayor of an Alaskan town. It sounds funny but it actually did happen . Talkeetna is a town in America’s biggest state of Alaska .The town had a population of less than 1000 . A cat named Stubbs was mayor of this town from 12 th April 1997 to 21st July 2017 . As the story goes Lauri Stec was the manager of a general store in the town . In 1997 she found a box in her parking area . The box contained kittens .