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Edwin J. Brown as mayor of the City of Seattle on May 2, 1922.
HistoryLink.org Essay 2810 : Printer-Friendly Format On May 2,
1922, voters elect Edwin J. Brown as mayor of the City of
Seattle. Pursuant to the Freeholders' Charter of 1890, the
mayor's term of office was two years. In 1921, the state
legislature set the elections for the Tuesday following the
first Monday in May. Two years later the elections were moved
back to March. The vote counts were as follows: On this election
day, women were elected for the first time to the Seattle City
Council. The two women elected were Bertha Knight Landes
(1868-1943), who won 80 percent of the vote, and later served a
term as Seattle mayor, and Kathryn Miracle. - Edwin J. Brown -
40,394 - Dan Landon - 28,541 Seattle City Clerk, "Mayors of the
City of Seattle,"
(www.ci.seattle.wa.us/seattle/leg/clerk/mayors.htm). Travel
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