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Bertha Knight Landes

Bertha Knight Landes
Bertha Knight Landes, American academic and politician, Mayor of Seattle (d. 1943)

Bertha Ethel Knight Landes was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1926 to 1928. After years of civic activism, primarily with women's organizations, she was elected to the Seattle City Council in 1922 and became council president in 1924.

19 October 1868

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