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

1730s 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.

1780s 1788 Johanne Dorothea Glomstad (1756-1835) was a Danish businesswoman and colonial official. She had the office købmand or kolonibestyrer ("Merchant or Colonial Administrator") of the colonial city of Jakobshavn (Ilulissat) in April-July 1788.

1860s 1862 Nancy Smith, first woman elected mayor in the United States in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States but declined to serve as mayor.

1880s

1887 Susanna M. Salter, the first woman to serve as mayor in United States as mayor of Argonia, Kansas, United States

1888 Mary D. Lowman, the first woman elected mayor of Oskaloosa, Kansas, United States She served alongside the first all-woman city council in the United States.

1889 America L. King, first woman mayor of Elk Falls, Kansas, United States Ella Miller, first woman mayor of Rossville, Kansas, United States Wilhelmina Morgan, first woman mayor of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, United States Lucy Sullivan, the first woman mayor of Baldwin City, Kansas, United States

1890s

1890 Belle Gray, first woman mayor of Canton, Kansas, United States

1891 Mary E. Paxton, first woman mayor of Kiowa, Kansas, United States Elizabeth Vedder, first woman mayor of Haddam, Kansas, United States

1893 Elizabeth Yates, first woman mayor in the British Empire and first female mayor of Onehunga, New Zealand Emma J. Barnes, elected the first woman mayor of Geuda Springs, Kansas, United States . Smith, first woman mayor of Wamego, Kansas, United States

1894 Anna Austin, the first woman mayor of Pleasanton, Kansas, United States [population approx., 1,500] 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. Antoinette L. Haskell, the first woman mayor of Gaylord, Kansas, United States

1896 Clara A. Curtis, the first woman mayor of Cimarron, Kansas, United States May Burbank Wade, the first woman mayor of Ellis, Kansas, United States Wade served with an all-woman municipal government.

1897 Anna M. Strain, the first woman mayor of Jamestown, Kansas, United States

1898 Jesse Parker, first woman mayor of Kendrick, Idaho, United States also the first woman mayor in the state of Idaho.

1899 Elizabeth Totten, first woman mayor of Beattie, Kansas, United States

See also

List of first women governors and chief ministers List of first women mayors List of first women mayors (20th century) List of first women mayors (21st century) List of first women mayors in the United States List of the first women holders of political offices Women in government

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