Susanna M. Salter
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Susanna Madora Salter (born Susanna Madora Kinsey) (1860-1961), U.S. politician, On April 4, 1887, At the tender age of 27, she was elected as mayor of Argonia, Kansas, becoming the first woman elected as mayor in the United States. Her father, Oliver Kinsey served as the town's first mayor. Following her term as mayor, she moved to Oklahoma in 1893 after acquiring land on the Cherokee Strip, and later moved to Norman, Oklahoma, where she died at the age of 101.
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External links
- Susanna Madora Salter-First Woman Mayor (http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1954/54_3_billington.htm)
- Susanna Salter: Voted First Woman Mayor (http://www.kshs.org/features/feat397c.htm)
