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Susanna Madora Salter



Salter, Susanna Madora (1860–1961), first woman to be elected mayor of a U.S. town (Argonia, Kans.; 1887). Opponents of Prohibition had nominated Salter, a Woman's Christian Temperance Union officer, as a joke.

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