page_title: List of first women mayors
section_title: 1890s
hierarchical_section_title: List of first women mayors / 1890s
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Elizabeth Yates who became the first female mayor (of Onehunga, New Zealand in the British Empire in 1893.
context_page_description: The first woman to serve as mayor is believed to be Susanna M. 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.
context_section_description: 1893
  Elizabeth Yates, first woman mayor in the British Empire and first female mayor of Onehunga, New Zealand 
  Barnes, elected the first woman mayor of Geuda Springs, Kansas in 1893.
  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.
  1896
  C. A. Curtis, the first woman mayor of Cimarron, Kansas, United States 
  M. A. Wade, the first woman mayor of Ellis, Kansas, United States 
  Wade served with an all-woman municipal government.
  1897
  Juno 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.
caption: Elizabeth Yates was the first woman elected mayor in the British Empire in 1893
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