Susanna M. Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas in April 1887, becoming the first female mayor of a U.S. city. Salter was nominated as a mayoral candidate on the Prohibition Party ticket by a local group intended as a joke. With the combined support of the Prohibitionists and the Republicans, Salter was elected mayor, making history and generating a world-wide news event.
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