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Susanna Madora Salter (1860-1961), also known as Dora Kinsey and Dora Salter, was the first woman elected as town mayor in the United States of America in 1887 when she was voted to office in Argonia Kansas. Throughout her life, Susanna Salter was also politically active and served as president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

- Salter's election reflected the growing political influence of women in Kansas and the nation as well as the rising concerns of the political establishment, conservative organizations, and men in an era increasingly granting rights ....

Despite some community resistance, Salter's candidacy was strongly supported by women's groups, the WCTU, and Republican Party members. Her election led to local, …show more content…

Susanna would later attend and graduate from Kansas State Agricultural College (1879), subsequently known as Kansas State University. In 1880 Susanna Kinsey married Lewis Allison Salter (1859-1916), a hardware store owner and son to the former Lieutenant-Governor of Kansas, Melville J. Salter (1834-1893), with whom she had nine children. Together, in 1882, they moved to Argonia Kansas, a Quaker community were they lived until 1893 prior to relocating to first Alva and then later to Augusta Oklahoma where her husband would edit and publish the regional newspaper, The …show more content…

During this period, in 1885, Susanna's father served as Argonia's first mayor and her husband became the City Clerk. As a result, Susanna Salter was also soon responsible for recording Argonia's City ordinances and laws making her familiar with regional political affairs and known in the region. Soon afterwards, at the age of twenty seven, Salter was nominated to stand for election in Argonia Kansas. By all accounts, her political involvement was the result of a group of men adding her name on the ticket as a prank to embarrass the W.C.T.U. as well as regional women's rights advocates. However when she was approached by the local Republican Party chairman prior to the election and informed Salter nonetheless accepted the nomination, was supported by the Republican Party and vigorously campaigned. As a result Salter garnered a majority of the local votes and was elected to office in 1887 becoming America's first elected female mayor. For the year following her election both national and international newspapers regularly reported on Salter's actions and policies during her term in office. While by all accounts, Salter's year in office was uneventful, she was noted for ceding most of her authority to her male colleagues, which dissuaded those

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