Mary D. (McGaha) Lowman (January 27, 1842 – June 12, 1912)[1][2][3] was a schoolteacher and the mayor of Oskaloosa, Kansas, in the late 1880s.

She was the first woman in Kansas to be elected mayor with a city council composed entirely of women.

[1] They moved to Kansas and settle in the small town of Oskaloosa, where she became a teacher of recently emancipated black students.

)[5] The "Oskaloosa Improvement Ticket"[6] won by a two-to-one margin,[4] making Lowman the first woman in Kansas to serve as mayor with a city council composed entirely of women.

[2] Lowman was elected only a year after Susanna M. Salter of Argonia, Kansas became the nation's first woman mayor.