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Name Entered office Left office Party 4 William James Gault: August 12, 1890 April 12, 1892 5 Oscar A. Mitscher: April 23, 1892 April 9, 1894 Republican
Lelia Foley-Davis (born November 7, 1942), formerly known as Lelia Foley, is an American politician who served as mayor of Taft, Oklahoma. [1] Elected in 1973, she has been described as the first African-American woman elected mayor in the United States. [2] [3]
The first woman to serve as mayor in the United States is believed to be Susanna M. Salter, who served as mayor of Argonia, Kansas, in 1887. [3] [4] [5] 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.
Mary Teresa Sullivan, Halifax City Council, 1936+ First female elected in an Ontario municipal election: Constance Hamilton, Toronto City Council, 1920–21; First female mayor, appointed: Violet Barss, Delia, Alberta (1920–1922) First female mayor, elected: Barbara Hanley, Webbwood, Ontario (1936–1944) First female mayor of a city:
Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office. The first female governor in North America and the Americas overall was Beatriz de la Cueva —appointed in 1541, when Central America was part of Spain.
Marija-Maja Ćatović, first woman mayor of Kotor and first female mayor in Montenegro Andrée Boucher, first woman elected mayor of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada [25] Dianne Watts, first woman elected mayor of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada [26] Janet Mikhail, first woman mayor of Ramallah, Palestine also the first woman mayor of a West Bank ...
Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt reacted in a social media statement. You can read that statement below: It appears that tornados touched down in OKC early this morning, at approximately 1:30 a.m.
Patience Latting, first woman elected mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States [163] Latting was also the first female mayor of any major U.S. city with more than 350,000 residents. [163] Kathryn Kirschbaum, first woman elected mayor of Davenport, Iowa, United States [164]