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First Mayor Facts

 

First City Mayor Elected by Popular Vote – Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence, New York City, New York, April 8 – 10, 1834

 

First Woman Mayor – Susanna Medora Salter, Argonia, Kansas, April 4, 1887

 

First Woman Mayor of a Major City – Patience Sewell Latting, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, April 13, 1971.

 

First Socialist Mayor of a Major City – Emil Seidel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 1910 

 

First African-American Mayor of a Major City – Carl Burton Stokes, Cleveland, Ohio, November 7, 1967.

 

First Mayor of Mexican Descent of a Major City – Henry Gabriel Cisneros, San Antonio, Texas, April 4, 1981.

 

 

Source: Famous First Facts by Joseph Nathan Kane.  Bronx, New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1997.

 

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