Vito Perillo is a 97-year-old WWII veteran, who was reelected to a second term as mayor of Tinton Falls, N.J. on Tuesday. Perillo is believed to be the oldest person ever to win a mayoral race in the U.S. “Thank you to my fellow residents for trusting me to lead Tinton Falls forward for the next four years.

You may know that I am not a politician, but today I stopped to think about why people might vote for me. Maybe it’s because I’m a WWII veteran, or an ‘old guy’ (hopefully not), or maybe it’s because you read my flyer highlighting our accomplishments over the last 4 years. My hope, however, is that it’s because you see that I care about our town,” Perillo wrote on Facebook.