As a joke, several men in 1887 nominated Susanna Madora Salter, a 27-year-old Woman’s Christian Temperance Union officer, on the Prohibition Party ticket to be mayor of Argonia in south-central Kansas. But the joke was on them. “Salter surprised the group and received two-thirds of the votes,” says the website of the Kansas Historical Society. “She was elected in April 4, 1887, just weeks after Kansas women had gained the right to vote in city elections.”
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