The World's First Lady Mayor was a 1900 New Zealand silent docu-drama film.
[1] It is the second-oldest surviving film in New Zealand, the oldest being The Departure of the Second Contingent for the Boer War from earlier the same year.
[2] In the 69-second film, Elizabeth Yates is re-enacting a speech she gave as mayor in 1893.
[1] Susanna M. Salter of Argonia, Kansas, is widely regarded as the first woman elected mayor in the world.
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