Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A 1951 Enloe ba tare da nasara ba ya nemi kujerar a Majalisar Birnin Raleigh, inda ya sanya 10th a zaben farko. Shekaru biyu bayan haka aka zabe shi a cikin hukumar. A cikin bazara na 1956 an nada shi shugaban "Bari muyi Magana da Asusun" don tara kuɗi don yakin neman zaben shugaban kasa na Adlai Stevenson II. A watan Agusta ya halarci taron kasa na jam'iyyar Democrat
a Chicago a matsayinsa na wakili. An zabe shi magajin garin Raleigh a shekara mai zuwa, ya maye gurbin Fred B. Wheeler a ranar 1 ga Yuli, 1957. A wannan shekarar kuma an zabe shi a Kwamitin Gudanarwa na Ƙungiyar Ƙungiyar Ƙasar Amirka, amma daga bisani ya bar bayan ya zaɓi kada ya sake neman sake za ~ e. Dan majalisar garin Jesse Helms bai ji dadin salon shugabancin Enloe ba, yana mai kiransa da "Enloe Steamroller".