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It includes Women mayors of places in the United States that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "African-American women mayors" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total.
Latting was also the first female mayor of any major U.S. city with more than 350,000 residents. [342] 1973. Lelia Foley was elected the mayor of Taft, Oklahoma. She was the first African American woman to be elected mayor in the United States. [343] 1992. M. Susan Savage, first woman elected mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma
The first African-American mayors were elected during Reconstruction in the Southern United States beginning about 1867. African Americans in the South were also elected to many local offices, such as sheriff and Justice of the Peace, and state offices such as legislatures as well as a smaller number of federal offices.
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]
This is a list of mayors of the 50 largest cities in the United States, ordered by their populations as of July 1, 2022, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau. [1] [2] These 50 cities have a combined population of 49.6 million, or 15% of the national population.
She was the first black woman mayor in Mississippi in 1976 when elected the mayor of Mayersville. [3] In November 2013, 138 black women were U.S. mayors. [4] In later years, the NCBM suffered from financial difficulties, and filed for bankruptcy in early 2014 after the controversial tenure of Kevin Johnson, then mayor of Sacramento, as NCBM ...
United States portal This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Mayors of places in the United States . It includes Mayors of places in the United States that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
In February 2006, The White House Project named Shirley Franklin one of its "8 in '08", a group of eight female politicians who could possibly run and/or be elected president in 2008. [11] She was the only person on the list to not be a governor, senator or presidential cabinet member, and one of two African-American women on the list; the ...