I remember writing about this back in April, when during the primary, he narrowly defeated Brad Anders by 23 votes. Jacobs was born April 26, 1967 on a U.S. Air Force base in Spain, he is a former WWE professional wrestler, a businessman, actor, and a politician. He claims that he is a Republican/Libertarian, and he is now the Mayor-elect of Knox County, Tennessee. Mr. Jacobs was able to wrestle the spot away form Linda Haney Democratic nominee in the Knox County mayoral race on Thursday. Gaining twice as many votes — 51,804 to Haney’s 26,224. A far wider gap than the close race in the primaries.
Jacobs will be the second former professional wrestler to hold public office in the US. Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota on the third-party Reform Party ticket in 98, after serving as mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota from 91 - 1995.
Jacobs has lived in East Tennessee home since 1995. He is a true libertarian who favors limited government opposes taxes and is pro freedom. From 2007 to 2014, he even occasionally wrote for LewRockwell.com, a blog that bills itself as "anti-state, anti-war, pro-market."
At 8 p.m. Thursday August the 3rd polls officially closed, the early and absentee voting showed Jacobs had a nearly 2-1 lead over Haney, ending the race early. Not at all unprecedented in this time of celebrity politicians but I get the sense that Mr. Jacobs, Kane, the big read machine, the former WWE world heavyweight champion genuinely cares about the people, his district, and whether you like it he is now the siting mayor of Knox Tennessee.
Glenn Jacobs' victory speech after winning race for Knox County Mayor
Knoxville News Sentinel