Bertha Knight Landes was the first female mayor of Seattle. She was born in Ware, Massachusetts. She attended Indiana University and moved to Seattle with her husband Henry Landes in 1895. Landes was prominent in civil activism, she served as president of the Washington State chapter of the League of Women Voters and organized the Women's City Club in 1922. That same year Landes was elected to Seattle City Council, and in 1926 she was elected mayor. She was a charter member of the Seattle Soroptimist Club and was the second president of the Soroptimist Federation of the Americas [now Soroptimist International] in 1930. Landes died in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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<ul><li>Subjects (LCSH): Landes, Bertha Knight, 1868-1943; Women--Washington (State)--Seattle--Portraits; Mayors--Washington (State)--Seattle--Portraits</li></ul>
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