May Burbank Wade's Campaign for Mayor, 1896

Wade, May Burbank

In 1896 Mary Burbank Wade was elected mayor of Ellis, Kansas. Coming nine years after Susanna Salter's election in Argonia, Kansas, Wade, like the other now-numerous women holding city and county office, found that the national press scarcely paid attention. Ella Wilson's experience as mayor in Hunnewell, Kansas, however, suggests that when gender controversy occurred the press, local and na...