Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In the late 1880s, Kansas voters did something almost no other state was doing: they elected women to local office. This episode of Per Aspera follows three of those elections: how Susanna Salter became the first woman mayor in the United States after being nominated as a joke, as well as wins in Oskaloosa and Baldwin City. Per Aspera is a Kansas history series produced by Kara Heitz and the Kansas 250 Commission.
In the late 1880s, Kansas voters did something almost no other state was doing: they elected women to local office. This episode of Per Aspera follows three of those elections: how Susanna Salter became the first woman mayor in the United States after being nominated as a joke, as well as wins in Oskaloosa and Baldwin City. Per Aspera is a Kansas history series produced by Kara Heitz and the Kansas 250 Commission.
