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Irena Kline was elected to the City Council of Oskaloosa, Jefferson County, Kansas in 1889. The previous year a woman mayor and five women had been elected in Oskaloosa. The following year the mayor and four of the women were re-elected. Kline replaced Carrie L. Johnson on the City Council.