Kammala wannan jumla: A 1951 Enloe ya nemi kujerar a Majalisar Birnin Raleigh, inda ya zama na 10 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 jam'iyyar Democrat ta
babban taron kasa 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".