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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: Charlotte Whitton, Ottawa (1951–1956, 1960–1964)
She was the first Jewish woman to serve as Mayor of a major U.S. city. [5] She was Dallas' first Jewish mayor and first female mayor; Annette Strauss would follow her in both categories. [6] [1] Harrison, a Democratic city councilwoman, succeeded Wes Wise as mayor when he resigned to run for the United States Congress.
Ninetta Bartoli, first woman mayor in Italy and first female mayor in Sardinia. [112] [113] 1947. Juliet M. Gregory, first woman elected mayor of Missoula, Montana, United States [114] Mary Kingsmill Jones, first elected female Lord Mayor of Manchester, England, United Kingdom Louise Schroeder, first female mayor of Berlin, Germany . 1948
The first mayor to serve following this change was Tom Bradford, a successful grocer who was a significant financial contributor to the Bradford Memorial Hospital for Babies, the preliminary institution to the Children's Medical Center Dallas. He died after suffering a major heart attack in 1932 and was the first mayor of Dallas to die in office.
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.
The first female premier was Rita Johnston in 1991 in British Columbia. Today, every Canadian jurisdiction has had at least one female premier except for Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan. The most women first ministers at any one time was six, for 277 days from 11 February to 15 November 2013.
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Deputy Mayor of Markham (1991-1992; 1997-2006) Mayor of Markham (1992-1994) List: Steven Del Duca: Vaughan: Ontario 323,103 November 15, 2022: Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party (2020-2022) Liberal Party MPP for Vaughan (2012-2018) List: Maude Marquis-Bissonnette: Gatineau: Quebec 291,041 June 18, 2024: City councillor for Plateau District ...