From collection Candidates
In 1899 Elizabeth Totten was elected mayor of Beattie, Marshall County (Kansas). Women were also elected to all the city council positions as well as the office of town clerk. A year later some of the women were not re-elected, perhaps because of the strict prohibition of liquor that they enforced. Their election drew attention in many quarters and was reported in a long New York Times article, "Women Rule in Kansas," August 13, 1899 (page 16).
