List of first women mayors in the United States

After Kansas granted women the right to vote in municipal elections in February 1887, Susanna Madora Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas on April 4, 1887, and became the first female mayor in the United States.

[1]: 237–238  Salter had been nominated without her knowledge or consent, as a stunt intended to discourage women from participation in the political process.

[1]: 240 [2] In 1862, Nancy Smith won the mayoral election of Oskaloosa, Iowa,[3][4] after being nominated as a "joke",[5] but she declined to hold office.

1980 1988 2000 2002 2008 2009 2013 2014 2015 2020 1936 1982 1994 1929 1937 1945 1949 1955 1957 1973 1974 1975 1977 1979 1981 1984 1987 1993 1995 2001 2008 2009 2013 1922 1923 1924 1925 1928 1954 1975 1977 1981 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1999 2002 2017 1946 1982 1921: 1923 1954 1959 1961 1966 1969 1972 1976 1977 1984 1986 1996 2000 2001 2002 2003 2013 2016 2017 2019 2021 1922 1925 1931 1971 1973 1992 1895 1912 1914 1917 1918 1920 1928 Letty Sankey, first woman elected mayor of Sweet Home, Oregon.

Sankey took a leave of absence from his city council term during her tenure as mayor.

Karen Bass is the first woman elected mayor of Los Angeles .
Marian Newhall Horwitz was the first woman mayor in Florida, and anywhere in the South
Matti Herrera Bower is the first woman to serve as Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida.
Susanna M. Salter was the first woman to serve as mayor in the United States.
Clara C. Munson was the first woman elected mayor in Oregon in the 20th century.
Rosa Belle Eaddy Woodberry Dickson (1868–1953) was the first woman elected mayor of Johnsonville and first woman mayor in South Carolina in 1925.
Kathryn J. Whitmire was the first woman elected Mayor of Houston, Texas in 1982.
Mia Love was the first woman elected mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah and the first African American woman elected mayor in the state of Utah.
Mayor of Gillette, Wyoming Louise Carter-King honoring a veteran Gillette Police Department officer at a City Council meeting in Gillette, Wyoming