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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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