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Susanna Madora Salter was elected the first woman mayor in the United States in Argonia, Kan., in 1887. Nominated as a joke just weeks after Kansas women gained the right to vote in city elections, she received two-thirds of the vote.

Source: Kansas State Historical Society

 

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