After Kansas granted women the right to vote in municipal elections in February 1887, Susanna Madora Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas on April 4, 1887, and became the first female mayor in the United States.[1]: 237–238 Salter had been nominated without her knowledge or consent, as a stunt intended to discourage women from participation in the political process.[1]: 240 [2] In 1862, Nancy Smith won the mayoral election of Oskaloosa, Iowa,[3][4] after being nominated as a "joke",[5] but she declined to hold office.[6]
Following the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920, Bertha Knight Landes became the first woman mayor of a city with more than 150,000 residents, after she was elected mayor of Seattle, Washington in 1926.[1]: 242
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Joanne L. Howell, first female mayor of Bernards Township, New Jersey. Started the town recycling program.
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Letty Sankey, first woman elected mayor of Sweet Home, Oregon.[353] She served for 1929 & 1930. Her husband W.S. Sankey took a leave of absence from his city council term during her tenure as mayor. "I refuse to take orders from the battle axe on the council, when she always bosses me around at home." Mr. Sankey said.
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