page_title: List of first women mayors in the United States
section_title: Oregon
hierarchical_section_title: List of first women mayors in the United States / Oregon
caption_attribution_description: English: Clara C. Munson, mayor of Warrenton, Oregon from 1913 to 1914
context_page_description: The first woman to serve as mayor in the United States, and in the world, is believed to be Susanna Madora Salter of the United States, who served as mayor of Argonia, Kansas, in 1887. However, the first woman recorded winning a mayoral election was Nancy Smith in 1862, who declined to be sworn in as mayor of Oskaloosa, Iowa.
  Doris A. Davis was the first woman and first African American woman elected mayor in the City of Compton in 1973.
context_section_description: 1895
  Alice E. Burns, first woman mayor of Florence, Oregon
  Burns was also the first woman elected in the state of Oregon. Women were elected to all other town offices as well.
  1912
  Clara C. Munson, first woman mayor of Warrenton, Oregon
  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.
  1914
  Clara Latourell Larsson, first woman elected mayor of Troutdale, Oregon
  1917
  Laura Jane Starcher, first woman elected mayor of Umatilla, Oregon
  1918
  Blanch Shelley, first woman elected mayor of Sandy, Oregon
  1920
  Bernice Pitts, first woman to execute the office of Mayor of Portland, Oregon
  Pitts, a student at Richmond School, served as mayor in place of George Luis Baker for five minutes
  1949
  Dorothy McCullough Lee, first woman mayor of Portland, Oregon
  1955
  Mary Van Stevens, first woman elected mayor of Heppner, Oregon
  She resigned in 1956 after purchasing a business in The Dalles, Oregon.
  1981
  Joy Burgess, first woman elected mayor of Milwaukie, Oregon
  Ruth Burleigh, first woman elected mayor of Bend, Oregon
  1983
  Sue Miller, first woman elected mayor of Salem, Oregon
  1985
  Shirley Huffman, first woman elected mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon
  1993
  Ruth Bascom, first woman mayor of Eugene, Oregon
  2000
  Lore Christopher, first woman elected mayor of Keizer, Oregon
  2017
  Carol Westfall, first woman elected mayor of Klamath Falls, Oregon
caption: Clara C. Munson was the first woman elected mayor in Oregon in the 20th century.
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