List of first women mayors (18th and 19th centuries)

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The following is a list of the first woman to serve as mayor of their respective municipalities.

1734

Madame Malotteau, first woman to execute the office of mayor of Namur, Belgium

Her husband served as mayor and following his death his colleagues requested she take over the mayoral duties.^[1]

1860s

1862

Nancy Smith, first woman elected mayor in the United States in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States

^[2]^[3] but declined to serve as mayor.^[4]

1880s

1887

Susanna M. Salter, the first woman to serve as mayor in United States as mayor of Argonia, Kansas, United States

^[5]^[6]

1888

Mary D. Lowman, the first woman elected mayor of Oskaloosa, Kansas, United States

^[7]^[6]

She served alongside the first all-woman city council in the United States.^[8]

1889

America L. King, first woman mayor of Elk Falls, Kansas, United States

^[9]

Ella Miller, first woman mayor of Rossville, Kansas, United States

^[10]

Wilhelmina Morgan, first woman mayor of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, United States

^[11]

Lucy Sullivan, the first woman mayor of Baldwin City, Kansas, United States

^[12]

1890s

1890

Belle Gray, first woman mayor of Canton, Kansas, United States

^[13]

1891

Mary E. Paxton, first woman mayor of Kiowa, Kansas, United States

^[14]^[15]

Elizabeth Vedder, first woman mayor of Haddam, Kansas, United States

^[16]

1893

Elizabeth Yates, first woman mayor in the British Empire and first female mayor of Onehunga, New Zealand

^[17]

Emma J. Barnes, elected the first woman mayor of Geuda Springs, Kansas, United States

.^[18]

Smith, first woman mayor of Wamego, Kansas, United States

^[19]

1894

Anna Austin, the first woman mayor of Pleasanton, Kansas, United States

^[20] [population approx., 1,500]^[21]

1895

Alice E. Burns, first woman mayor of Florence, Oregon, United States

Burns was also the first woman elected in the state of Oregon. Women were elected to all other town offices as well.^[22]^[23]

Antoinette L. Haskell, the first woman mayor of Gaylord, Kansas, United States

^[24]

1896

Clara A. Curtis, the first woman mayor of Cimarron, Kansas, United States

^[25]^[26]

May Burbank Wade, the first woman mayor of Ellis, Kansas, United States

Wade served with an all-woman municipal government.^[27]

1897

Anna M. Strain, the first woman mayor of Jamestown, Kansas, United States

^[28]

1898

Jesse Parker, first woman mayor of Kendrick, Idaho, United States

also the first woman mayor in the state of Idaho.^[29]

1899

Elizabeth Totten, first woman mayor of Beattie, Kansas, United States^[30]

References

↑ "A Woman Mayor In Belgium". New York Tribune. New York City, New York. 14 July 1896. p. 15. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
↑ "A Woman Elected Mayor". The Bedford Gazette. Bedford, Pennsylvania. March 7, 1862. p. 1. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ "Defeat of Republicans; A Woman Elected Mayor". The Cadiz Democratic Sentinel. Cadiz, Ohio. March 5, 1862. p. 1. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ "Nancy+Smith" The Iowa Press Association's Who's who in Iowa: A Biographical Record of Iowa's Leaders in Business, Professional and Public Life. Iowa: Iowa Press Association. 1940. p. 792. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ Billington, Monroe (Autumn 1954). "Susanna Madora Salter – First Woman Mayor". kancoll.org. Archived from the original on 2002-11-02. Retrieved December 31, 2016.
1 2 Katz, Elizabeth D. (2021-07-30). "Sex, Suffrage, and State Constitutional Law: Women's Legal Right to Hold Public Office". Rochester, NY. SSRN 3896499. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
↑ "Untitled". Abilene Weekly Reflector. Abilene, Kansas. 11 April 1889. p. 2. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
↑ "A Woman for Mayor; The Entire City Government of Oskaloosa, Kan. in the Hands of the Fair Sex". Crawford Avalanche. Grayling, Michigan. April 12, 1888. p. 1. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ "America L. King". herhatwasinthering.org. Her Hat Was In the Ring. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
↑ Society, Kansas State Historical (1912). Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society.
↑ "Wilhelmina Morgan". herhatwasinthering.org. Her Hat Was In the Ring. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
↑ "Untitled". Wichita Eagle. Wichita, Kansas. April 5, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ "Belle Gray". herhatwasinthering.org. Her Hat Was In the Ring. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
↑ "Untitled". Indianapolis News. Indianapolis, Indiana. 24 October 1891. p. 10. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
↑ "Petticoat oppression". The Caldwell Tribune. Caldwell, Idaho. 24 October 1891. p. 7. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
↑ "Mrs. Elizabeth Vedder". herhatwasinthering.org. Her Hat Was In the Ring. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
↑ Mogford, Janice C. "Yates, Elizabeth 1840–1848?–1918". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
↑ "Untitled". The Indianapolis Journal. Indianapolis, Indiana. April 29, 1893. p. 1. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ "Kansas Notes". Washington Palladium. May 26, 1893. p. 1.
↑ "A Woman Elected Mayor". The Kinsley Graphic. Kinsley, Kansas. January 19, 1894. p. 1. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ "A Woman Mayor; Mrs. Anne Austin, Leader of the Reform Movement, Is Elected". The New North-West. Deer Lodge, Michigan. February 3, 1894. p. 2. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ "Petticoat Rule for Florence; Florence Woman Victorious--Elected By Large Majorities". The Eugene City Guard. Eugene, Oregon. April 13, 1895. p. 5. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ "The Ladies Rule". The Dalles Daily Chronicle. The Dalles, Oregon. April 10, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ Girvin, Ernest Alexander (1898). Domestic Duels: Or, Evening Talks on the Woman Question. Conversations Relating to the Domestic, Social, Industrial, Historical and Political Phases of the Subject. E. D. Bronson & Company.
↑ "Clara Curtis". kshs.org. Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
↑ "The Kansas Election". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Seattle, Washington. April 8, 1896. p. 1. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ "All Women; The Entire City Government of Ellis is Women". The Topeka State Journal. Topeka, Kansas. April 10, 1896. p. 3. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ "From Kansas Towns". The Topeka State Journal. Topeka, Kansas. April 8, 1897. p. 3. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ "Daily Capital Journal". Salem, Oregon. April 6, 1898. p. 1. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
↑ "Mrs. Elizabeth Totten". herhatwasinthering.org. Her Hat Was In the Ring. Retrieved 29 September 2020.

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