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Bertha Knight Landes
Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (October 19, 1868 – November 29, 1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1926 to 1928.〔(Seattle City Council Members, 1869-Present Chronological Listing ), Seattle City Archives. Accessed online 19 July 2008.〕 After years of civic activism, primarily with women's organizations, she was elected to the Seattle City Council in 1922 and became Council President in 1924.
==Early years ==
Landes was born in Ware, Massachusetts to Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia Cutter. Her father, a veteran of the Union Army, moved the family to Worcester in 1873. She attended Indiana University, where she received a degree in history and political science in 1891.
After three years of teaching at the Classical High School in Worcester, Massachusetts, she married geologist Henry Landes, whom she had met as a student at Indiana University. The couple had three children, one of whom was adopted. Landes moved to Seattle in 1895 when her husband Henry became a member of the University of Washington faculty. He would later become Dean of the College of Sciences there.
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