List of first women mayors (20th century)

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

1900s

1906 Lady Margaret Dockrell, first woman chair of the Urban District Council of Monkstown, Ireland, United Kingdom 1908 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, first woman mayor in England and first female mayor of Aldeburgh, United Kingdom

1910s

1910 Sarah Lees, first woman mayor of Oldham, in Lancashire, England Gwenllian Morgan, first woman mayor of Brecon, Wales, United Kingdom first woman mayor in Wales

1911 Kate F. O'Connor, first woman mayor of Arcadia, Illinois, United States Ella Wilson, first woman mayor of Hunnewell, Kansas

1912 Clara C. Munson, first woman mayor of Warrenton, Oregon, United States also the first woman elected mayor following the passage of the equal suffrage law in Oregon. Some sources, including The Daily Astorian, erroneously call Munson the first woman elected mayor in Oregon; however, that distinction belongs to Alice E. Burns who was elected mayor of Florence, Oregon in 1895. Mary E. Woolley Chamberlain, first woman mayor of Kanab, Utah, United States Susan Wissler, mayor of Dayton, Wyoming, United States Wissler was the first woman mayor in Wyoming

1913 H.C. Defenhaugh, first woman elected mayor in Tyro, Kansas, United States

1914 Clara Latourell Larsson, first woman elected mayor of Troutdale, Oregon, United States

1915 Angela Rose Canfield, first woman mayor of Warren, Illinois, United States Estelle Lawton Lindsey, first woman to execute the duties of mayor of Los Angeles, California, United States This occurred when Los Angeles Mayor Henry H. Rose was absent from his post in September 1915 and directed Lindsey, a member of the city council, to fill in as acting mayor.

1916 Ellen French Aldrich, first woman elected mayor of Sawtelle, United States C. I. Driver, first woman to serve as mayor of Lone Rock, Colorado, United States was appointed by the city council Mary Alice Partington, first woman mayor of Glossop, in Derbyshire

1917 Avis Francis, first woman mayor of Valley Center, Kansas, United States Ophelia "Birdie" Crosby Harwood, mayor of Marble Falls, Texas, United States also the first woman mayor in Texas, elected by an all-male vote three years before women were allowed to vote. Marian Newhall Horwitz, first woman who served as mayor of Moore Haven, Florida, United States also first woman mayor in Florida Laura Jane Starcher, first woman elected mayor of Umatilla, Oregon, United States

1918 Blanch Shelley, first woman elected mayor of Sandy, Oregon, United States Maria Skobtsova, first woman mayor in the Russian Empire and first female mayor of Anapa, Russia

1919 Helen B. Coe, first woman elected mayor of Langley, Washington, United States was elected with an all-woman city council Ada Summers, first woman elected mayor of Stalybridge, in Cheshire, England

1920s

1920 Hattie Barnes Adkisson, first woman mayor of Jewett, Texas, United States, Ellen Chapman, first woman elected mayor of Worthing, in West Sussex, England Lula V. Coleman first woman mayor of Jena, Louisiana, United States Coleman, who was serving as deputy sheriff of LaSalle Parish, was appointed mayor by Governor John M. Parker, making her the first woman to serve as mayor in Louisiana Nora Gammon, first woman mayor of Thebes, Illinois, United States Mayors. (1923). Time, 1(10), 8 Louise Fussman, mayor Humboldt, Kansas, United States Grace B. Lampshire, first woman elected mayor of Burns, Oregon, United States also the first woman elected mayor in Oregon by write-in vote Grace Miller, first woman elected mayor of Jackson, Wyoming, United States Bernice Pitts, first woman to execute the office of mayor of Portland, Oregon, United States Pitts, a student at Richmond School, served as mayor in place of George Luis Baker for five minutes

1921 Ellen M. Anderson, first woman mayor of Lantana, Florida, United States Léonie Keingiaert de Gheluvelt, first woman elected mayor of Gheluvelt, Belgium also the first woman elected mayor in Belgium Lillian Cox Gault, first woman elected mayor of St. Peter, Minnesota, United States also the first woman to serve as mayor in Minnesota Christiana Hartley, first woman elected mayor of Southport, in Lancashire, England Amy A. Kaukonen, first woman elected mayor in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, United States Mayme Ousley, first woman elected mayor of St. James, Missouri, United States Ousley was also the first woman elected mayor in the state of Missouri Mary Peterson, first woman elected mayor of Red Cloud, Nebraska, United States Florence J. Pierce, first woman elected mayor of Goodhue, Minnesota, United States Dolly Spencer, first woman elected mayor of Milford, Ohio, United States Alice Harrell Strickland, first woman elected mayor of Duluth, Georgia, United States Strickland was the first woman elected mayor in the state of Georgia Clara Winterbotham, first woman elected mayor of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, England

1922 Beatrice Anna Cartwright, first woman elected mayor of Brackley, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom Dr. Josie Rogers, first woman mayor of Daytona, Florida, United States Ada Salter, mayor of Bermondsey, first woman mayor in London Maude R. Satterthwaite, first woman mayor of Stonewall, North Carolina, United States

1923 Catherine Alderton, first woman mayor of Colchester, England, United Kingdom Emma J. Harvat, first woman elected mayor of Iowa City, Iowa, United States first woman in the United States to be elected mayor of a city with more than 10,000 inhabitants Mary McFadden, first woman mayor of Magnetic Springs, Ohio, United States was appointed by the city council at the age of 80. Janet Stancomb-Wills, first woman mayor of Ramsgate, England, United Kingdom

1924 Kathrine M. Cowan, first woman mayor of Wilmington, North Carolina, United States Lucy Dales, first woman elected mayor of Dunstable, England, United Kingdom Jesse Elwyn Nelson, first woman elected mayor of Signal Hill, California, United States also Signal Hill's first mayor Edwina Benner, first woman elected mayor of Sunnyvale, California, United States Carrie Maude Eve, first woman elected mayor of Stoke Newington, in London, England Alice U. Kerr, first woman elected mayor of Edmonds, Washington, United States Ethel Leach, first woman elected mayor of Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk, England Mary Mercer, first woman elected mayor of Birkenhead, in Cheshire, England Matilde Pérez Mollá, first woman elected mayor in Spain, (city of Gorga, Spain) Mildred Putnam, first woman elected mayor of Stoutsville, Missouri, United States

1925 Rosa Belle Eaddy Woodberry Dickson,Rosa Belle Eaddy Woodberry Dickson first woman elected mayor in South Carolina and first woman elected mayor of Johnsonville, South Carolina Rebecca Estell Bourgeois Winston, first woman elected mayor in New Jersey, United States , first mayor and founder of Estell Manor Maude Duncan, first woman elected mayor of Winslow, Arkansas, United States Maggie Skipwith Smith, first woman elected mayor in Louisiana, United States

1926 Mattle Chandler, first woman mayor of Richmond, California, United States Bertha Knight Landes, first woman mayor of Seattle, Washington, United States first woman mayor of a major American city Aasa Helgesen, first woman elected mayor of Utsira Municipality and first female mayor in Norway

1927 Alzira Soriano de Souza, first female appointed mayor in Brazil also first female mayor of Lages Fanne Gaar, first woman elected mayor in Arizona, mayor of Casa Grande, Arizona, United States Margaret Beavan, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Liverpool, England, United Kingdom first woman lord mayor in the United Kingdom Lucia Foster Welch, first woman elected Mayor of Southampton, England, United Kingdom

1928 Leah Arcouet Chiles, first woman elected mayor of Kenilworth Park, North Carolina, United States Lena Culver Hawkins, first woman mayor of Brooksville, Florida, United States Ella L. Maddocks, first woman mayor of Owls Head, Maine, United States "Mayor" was an honorary title chosen by the Owls Head Select Committee. May B. Hopkins, first woman elected mayor of Redondo Beach, California, United States Alzira Soriano, first woman elected mayor in Latin America, mayor of Lajes, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

1929 Emily Jones, first woman elected mayor of Eureka, California, United States Bessie Moore, first woman elected mayor of Candor (village), New York, United States Moore won by write-in vote and refused to take the oath of office

1930s

1930 A. F. Board, first woman elected mayor of Watford, England, United Kingdom Sadiye Hanım, first woman elected mayor in Turkey when elected for Kılıçkaya in Artvin Essie Ward, first woman elected mayor of King City, Missouri, United States Luiza Zavloschi, first woman elected mayor in Romania when elected for Buda (Bogdănești)

1931 Clara E. Grauert, the 72-year-old widow of Emile W. Grauert chosen to fill the office of her husband as mayor of Weehawken, New Jersey"Widow, 72, Succeeds Weehawken Mayor", The New York Times, 14 May 1931. Accessed 14 November 2019. "Mrs. Clara E. Grauert, 72-year-old widow of Emile W. Grauert, who at the time of his death on April 20. had completed twenty-one years as Mayor of Weehawken, N. J., was sworn in last night at the Weehawken City Hall as her husband's successor." Miriam Moses, first woman elected mayor of Stepney, England, United Kingdom also the first Jewish woman mayor in the United Kingdom Phenie Lou Ownby, first woman elected mayor of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, United States Julia Platt, first woman elected mayor of Pacific Grove, California, United States Grace Prescott, first woman elected mayor of Godmanchester, England, United Kingdom

1932 Stella Alexander, first woman elected mayor of Issaquah, Washington, United States Edna Allen, first woman elected mayor of Jefferson, Oregon, United States Elsie Kimber, first woman elected mayor of Newbury, England, United Kingdom June G. Olsen, first woman elected mayor of Ekalaka, Montana, United States

1933 Elena Azcuy, first woman mayor of Consolación del Norte, Cuba Azcuy was the first woman to serve as mayor of a Cuban municipality. Doris W. Bradway, first woman mayor of Wildwood, New Jersey, United States Lily Sophia Tawney, first woman elected mayor of Oxford, England, United Kingdom in 1960, the title was changed to Lord Mayor of Oxford. Clara Marie Emma Heiser, first woman elected mayor of Ellsworth, Kansas, United States

1934 Mrs. Solomon S. Youmans, first woman mayor of Oak Park, Georgia, United States

1935 Alicia Cañas, first female elected mayor in Chile, the first of Providencia Louise Bucks, first woman elected mayor of Waconia, Minnesota, United States

1936 Ella M. Amdahl, first woman elected mayor of Hingham, Montana, United States Aurora Mesa Andraca, first woman mayor of Chilpancingo, Mexico Barbara Hanley, first woman elected mayor in Canada when elected to office in Webbwood, Ontario Evalina Herd, first woman elected mayor of Kevin, Montana, United States Ann Eliza Longden, first woman elected Lord Mayor of Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

1937 Mary Lucy Kyle Hartson, first woman elected mayor of Kyle, Texas, United States Ines V. Serion, first woman elected mayor in Philippines—elected in Vallehermoso, Negros Oriental Kathrine Wykle, mayor of Clyde, New York, United States also the first woman mayor in New York

1938 Nellie Babcock, first woman mayor of Rochester, Indiana, United States Lilian Fowler, first woman mayor in Australia, at Newtown Lady Gwladys Delamere, first woman mayor of Nairobi, Kenya Colony (today Kenya) Nettie Terrill, first woman elected mayor of Dixon, Wyoming, United States Terrill ran unopposed

1939 Kathleen Clarke, first woman Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland Graciela Contreras, first woman elected mayor in Santiago, Chile