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'''Ashton Hayward III''' is a Pensacola real estate broker/developer and a [[2010 elections|2010 candidate]] for incoming [[mayor of Pensacola]].
A Pensacola native, Hayward graduated from [[Catholic High School]] and received a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University. He worked as a model in Miami, where he met his wife [[An Hayward|An]],<ref>"A model life." ''Pensacola News Journal'', February 13, 2003.</ref> then moved to New York, where he worked in a variety of sales and management positions for AT&T and later as advertising director for the ''Financial Times''.
Hayward returned to Pensacola in 2002 and founded a real estate firm (now [[Pair & Hayward Properties]]) with [[Matthew Pair]] and [[Allan Bell]]. The three men, along with [[Cody Rawson]] and [[Russell Weaver]], were partners in development company [[Red Fish Harbor]], among whose projects were a $80 million, 244-unit condominium development called [[Shelter Cove of Perdido]] that eventually stalled.<ref>"More condominiums coming." ''Pensacola News Journal'', August 10, 2005.</ref>
Hayward is was also Vice-President of Marketing & Business Development for the [[Wikipedia:World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts|World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts]] (WAMMA)co-founded by Pensacola attorney [[Fred Levin]].<ref>http://wammaweb.net/officers-hayward.asp</ref>
He filed to run for [[mayor of Pensacola ]] on March 23, 2010. On [[November 2]], [[2010]], he defeated incumbent [[Mike Wiggins]] in the race to become Pensacola's first "[[strong mayor]]." {{start box}}{{Incumbent succession box | before = [[Mike Wiggins]] | title = [[Mayor of Pensacola]] | start = 2011}}{{end box}}
==Community involvement==