List of first women mayors (18th and 19th centuries)

The following is a list of the first woman to serve as mayor of their respective municipalities.

1730s
1734
 * Madame Malotteau, first woman to execute the office of mayor of Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪
 * Her husband served as mayor and following his death his colleagues requested she take over the mayoral duties.

1860s
1862
 * Nancy Smith, first woman elected mayor in the United States in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States 🇺🇸 but declined to serve as mayor.

1880s
1887
 * Susanna M. Salter, the first woman to serve as mayor in United States as mayor of Argonia, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸

1888
 * Mary D. Lowman, the first woman elected mayor of Oskaloosa, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸
 * She served alongside the first all-woman city council in the United States.

1889
 * America L. King, first woman mayor of Elk Falls, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸
 * Ella Miller, first woman mayor of Rossville, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸
 * Wilhelmina Morgan, first woman mayor of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸
 * Lucy Sullivan, the first woman mayor of Baldwin City, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸

1890s
1890
 * Belle Gray, first woman mayor of Canton, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸

1891
 * Mary E. Paxton, first woman mayor of Kiowa, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸
 * Elizabeth Vedder, first woman mayor of Haddam, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸

1893
 * Elizabeth Yates, first woman mayor in the British Empire and first female mayor of Onehunga, New Zealand 🇳🇿
 * Emma J. Barnes, elected the first woman mayor of Geuda Springs, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸.
 * Smith, first woman mayor of Wamego, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸

1894
 * Anna Austin, the first woman mayor of Pleasanton, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸 [population approx., 1,500]

1895
 * Alice E. Burns, first woman mayor of Florence, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
 * Burns was also the first woman elected in the state of Oregon. Women were elected to all other town offices as well.
 * Antoinette L. Haskell, the first woman mayor of Gaylord, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸

1896
 * Clara A. Curtis, the first woman mayor of Cimarron, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸
 * May Burbank Wade, the first woman mayor of Ellis, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸
 * Wade served with an all-woman municipal government.

1897
 * Anna M. Strain, the first woman mayor of Jamestown, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸

1898
 * Jesse Parker, first woman mayor of Kendrick, Idaho, United States 🇺🇸
 * also the first woman mayor in the state of Idaho.

1899
 * Elizabeth Totten, first woman mayor of Beattie, Kansas, United States