Susanna Madora Salter
(1860 - 1961)
- Moved from Ohio to Kansas with parents in 1872
- Attended Kansas State Agricultural College
- Moved to Argonia, nominated for mayor by several men as a joke in 1887
- Received two-thirds of the votes
- Elected first woman mayor in the United States, generating worldwide interest
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