Bertha Knight Landes
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Bertha Knight Landes (October 19, 1868 - November 29, 1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city. Landes served as mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1926 to 1928. She was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, attended Indiana University, and died in Ann Arbor, at the house of her son, in 1943. Today, the largest meeting room at Seattle City Hall is named in her honor.
[edit] Further reading
Sandra Haarsager, Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle: Big-City Mayor (University of Oklahoma Press, 1994).
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