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	Bertha Knight Landes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bertha Knight Landes (October 19, 1868 - November 29, 1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city.
		Landes served as mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1926 to 1928.
		She was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, attended Indiana University, and died in Ann Arbor, at the house of her son, in 1943.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bertha_Knight_Landes (133 words)

	NWHM Biographies
		Political pioneer Bertha Knight Landes was the first woman mayor of Seattle and the first woman mayor of a major American city.
		Landes and her family moved to Washington in 1895 when her husband Henry became a faculty member at the University of Washington.
		Landes was the mother of three children and was active in various women’s clubs.
	www.nmwh.org /Education/biography_bklandes.html (391 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Landes, Bertha Knight (1868-1943)
		Bertha Knight Landes, elected mayor of Seattle in 1926, became the first woman to lead a major American city.
		Bertha Knight Landes met her husband Henry during their student years at the University of Indiana.
		Landes turned the tide of widespread corruption in city government with an honest, scandal-free administration.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=5343 (686 words)

	Mayor Landes put Seattle's house in order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Together, Bertha Knight Landes and Roy Olmsted were complementary, colorful, even mythic figures who starred in the drama of Seattle in the 1920s.
		Landes, the first and only female mayor of Seattle, was elected in June 1926, at age 57, on a platform to crack down on vice and clean up the large house.
		Landes' counted among her accomplishments the revision of the building ordinance, zoning laws, a city planning commission and the placement of capable people in key administrative positions -- regardless of gender.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /century/land12.shtml (970 words)

	Seattle Municipal Archives Women in City Government
		Landes moved to Seattle in 1895 when her husband Henry was appointed to the University of Washington faculty.
		Landes' leadership was recognized early; she was appointed by the Mayor in 1921 to serve on a commission studying unemployment.
		Bertha Knight Landes and Kathryn Miracle were the first women to serve on Seattle City Council; both were elected in 1922.
	www.ci.seattle.wa.us /CityArchives/Resources/WomenExhibit/Mayor_Landes.htm (661 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle: Big-City Mayor: Books: Sandra Haarsager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When Landes (1868-1943) became Seattle's mayor in 1926, she was the first woman elected to lead a major U.S. city.
		Earlier in her career, Landes was elected to the Seattle city council and served as its president.
		Knight's brief tenure as Seattle's mayor, from 1926 to 1928, is fit into the context of the Progressive era's municipal reforms and the growing activism of women in America's political life.
	www.amazon.ca /Bertha-Knight-Landes-Seattle-Big-City/dp/0806125926 (469 words)

	Seattle Woman Magazine: Woman Mayors
		Bertha Knight Landes did not vote until she was 51 years old.
		It is not only the right, but the privilege and duty, of women to take part in the administration of public affairs.” Landes, the wife of prominent University of Washington faculty member Henry Landes, had been active in her church and community for years.
		In the 1920s, Bertha Knight Landes’ formula for a successful woman politician included “courage without tears … personal charm … poise … endless physical energy … a sense of humor … but most of all – no tears.” Today’s women mayors had varying responses to the “no tears” aspect of that quote.
	www.seattlewomanmagazine.com /may05-2.htm (2056 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bertha Knight Landes was born in 1868 and died during World War II.
		Landes worked with and against prevailing constructions of both gender and government to accomplish her goals in and out of office--including consciously creating a new model for acceptable female behavior.
		Using theories of power, social change and gender, and the lens of rhetorical analysis, this biographical study relates Landes' experiences to the gendered politics of subsequent decades.
	www.georgetown.edu /crossroads/dis/91haar.html (136 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Knight
		Knight, Emma — of Laramie, Albany County, Wyo. Republican.
		Knight, Ernest Evert — of Lewis County, W.Va. Republican.
		Knight, Ethel — of Detroit, Wayne County, Mich. Republican.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/knight.html (1000 words)

	Seattle Condos And Lofts » Blog Archive » Sneak Peek - Landes Condo
		Landes is the newest community by Williams Marketing and is planned for First Hill at 8th and Marion.
		Landes is named after Seattle’s first & only woman mayor, Bertha Knight Landes, who was elected in 1926.
		A place we can come into town land, relax, go to dinner, and sleep.
	seattlecondosandlofts.com /2006/11/sneak-peek-landes-condo (157 words)

	The Stranger \| Seattle \| Slog: The Stranger's Blog \| Full Retreat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Technically, council “retreats” (which have been as far from council chambers as La Conner and as close as the Bertha Knight Landes Room on the first floor of city hall) are open to the public; as a practical matter, though, the farther away a meeting is, the harder it is for the public to attend.
		In Friendly Helpers camp, we were able to do all of our trust excercises in the gymnasium and we STILL had to go to fifth and sixth period.
		At first glance I read that as the "Bertha Knight ladies room".
	www.thestranger.com /blog/2005/12/full_retreat.php (346 words)

	TIME.com: Landes Out -- Mar. 26, 1928 -- Page 1
		Bertha Knight Landes, wife of Dean Landes of the University of Washington and sister-in-law of President Emeritus David Starr Jordan of Stanford University, stepped in as acting mayor and "closed the town." The town had needed closing so badly that the Better Element was very pleased with Mrs.
		Last week, the Better Element having forgotten it was in politics, and "the town" being weary of her welldoing, Mrs.
		Landes was defeated for re-election by Frank Edwards, a retired Seattle showman.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,787010,00.html (445 words)

	Seattle Channel - Programming: Eccentric Seattle with J. Kingston Pierce
		This Seattle Channel original series introduces viewers to the unusual, obscure and outlandish characters and events that are a treasured part of life in Seattle.
		This month's show, "Bertha Knight Landes: The Housekeeping Mayor".
		Landes, the first woman mayor of a major American city, brought serious reform to Seattle and made serious enemies among 'fun-loving males'.
	www.seattlechannel.org /media/EccentricSeattleJan05.htm (169 words)

	Said it - One Way to Look At It - March/April 2001
		Iroquois women own the land and control the economy of the Iroquois nation.
		After serving as city council president, Bertha Knight Landes is elected the first female mayor of a major city, Seattle.
		When Eleanor Roosevelt encounters segregated seating at a conference on human welfare in Birmingham, Alabama, she moves her chair to straddle the fl and white sections.
	www.saidit.org /archives/mar01/oneway.html (1022 words)

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		In 1924, Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming became the first woman elected as governor of a state.
		Bertha Knight Landes became the first woman elected mayor of Seattle in 1926.
		By 1933, Hattie Wyatt Caraway was elected to the U.S. Senate, and Frances Perkins served as the Secretary of Labor under President Roosevelt.
	www.msu.edu /~davism28/202.html (1939 words)

	History Now. The Historians Perspective
		Holding out the promise of free land, the government sought to supplant what many Americans saw as the reckless, restless West with order, predictability, and permanence.
		And when it came to women actually holding political office and wielding political power, the West was far in the vanguard of the nation.
		The first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (Montana’s Jeannette Rankin), the first women governors of states (Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming and Miriam Ferguson of Oklahoma), and the first woman mayor of a major city (Seattle’s Bertha Knight Landes) all hailed from the West.
	www.historynow.org /preview/09_2006/historian5.html (1567 words)

	Bertha Knight Landes Details, Meaning Bertha Knight Landes Article and Explanation Guide
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		Bertha Knight Landes Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
		This is an Article on Bertha Knight Landes.
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	The Seattle Times: Local News: Seattle downtown plan needs adjusting, report says
		Monday in the Bertha Knight Landes Room, first floor of Seattle City Hall, 600 Fourth Ave.
		The issue of getting more public benefits out of developer profits is likely to be the most contentious part of the debate.
		Developers Matt Griffin and Richard Stevenson agreed, noting that last week Nickels proposed a new development-impact fee that would collect about $57 million to pay for new parks in Seattle's center city.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002428733_vancouver09m.html (836 words)

	LDDI Weekly Bulletin
		With land use policies, designs and plans influencing individual and community health, it is more important than ever to better integrate planning processes and public health.
		They will address the audience on their 25 years of experience in public health research, environmental land use and community development policy work and their use of Health Impact Assessments.
		The changes would have raised the threshold for reporting releases of toxic chemicals in detail from 500 to 5,000 pounds and would allowed companies to report every other year instead of annually.
	www.iceh.org /bulletins/LDDIbulletin12-6-06.html (7799 words)

	Bertha Knight Landes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	Recommended Reading - Women on the Western Frontier
		These books tell the stories of women who made their presence felt in the Pacific Northwest of the 19th and early 20th Century.
		In addition to well-known historical figures such as Abigail Scott Duniway and Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, readers will discover Thea Foss, the original "Tugboat Annie"; Bertha Knight Landes, the first female mayor of Seattle; and Lola Greene Baldwin, the first policewoman in the US.
		In every boom town and near frontier military posts, there were "red light districts" where women practiced the world's oldest profession.
	www.endoftheoregontrail.org /books/womenstudies.html (476 words)

	Wilsonian Apartments, Seattle
		The original design gave the complex 99 apartments.
		Bertha Knight Landes, first woman mayor of a major American city, lived in the apartment building from 1926 to 1941.
		All data marked with * and additional tools are accessible through Emporis Research.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=119350 (74 words)

	Sandra Knight - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art. Superstar - Star - Icon or just plain actor to some, ...
		Sandra Knight - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art.
		For good or bad, moving stories in film and cinmea are becoming the some of the most visible achievements - the Silver Screen, DVD, VHS, Albums, they touch us.
		Atkinson Grimshaw : knight's errand by Sandra K. Payne
	www.omega23.com /New_York_to_Malibu/Sandra_Knight.html (528 words)

	Washington Desktop Wallpaper \| Away.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bertha Knight Landes was elected in 1926 and served a single two-year term.
		A mother of three, Landes founded the Women’s City Club, was president of the Washington State League of Women Voters, and served on the Seattle City Council.
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	Amazon.com: Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle: Big-City Mayor: Books: Sandra Haarsager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	Women in Pacific Northwest Hi
		Therefore we chose six diverse women who were part of early Northwest history: Abigail Scott Duniway, Sue Boynton, Nettie Connet Dempsey, Josephine Lavigneur, Jennie Divilbiss Goodell, and Bertha Knight Landes, We chose these women because of their wide range of backgrounds and contributions.
		We have shown that every woman, as well as every man, was important in our history.
		I met my husband, Henry Landes, while studying at Indiana University.
	wwwshs.bham.wednet.edu /ExtraCurriculum/Zodiac/Lessons/womeninpnwhis...-97.htm (3174 words)

	AIA Seattle
		What Makes It Collaborative Forum on Sustainable Design, presented by the AIA Seattle Committee on the Environment (COTE), seeks Northwest projects demonstrating efforts in environmentally responsible design, for display, discussion & publication.
		Held in the Bertha Knight Landes room at Seattle City Hall April 28, 2005, the event will focus on the advancement of sustainable techniques: specifically how an integrated design process can produce a more sustainable project.
		The program will engage a multi-disciplinary audience in an informed discussion of sustainable strategies for the built environment.
	www.aiaseattle.org /wmig2005/wmigentries.htm (746 words)

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	LDDI Weekly Bulletin
		Topics will include bio-monitoring; climate change; environmental justice; environmental public health tracking; food and water protection; health disparities; healthy places and healthy homes; indoor air quality; injury prevention; laboratory science and service; preparedness and response; public health policy and law; toxicants, exposures, and contaminants; vector management; and workforce development.
		But pursuing single-minded economic growth is proving to be costly.
		Much of the country's recent swell in protests and social unrest has been provoked by water and land pollution.
	www.iceh.org /bulletins/LDDIbulletin11-22-06.html (13257 words)

	Knight - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	DJC.COM: Environmental Watch: City Light looking at its needs in 2025, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		SEATTLE — Seattle City Light has started planning where it will get electricity from in 20 years, and will seek public input as part of the process.
		The first public meeting will be Nov. 14 at Seattle City Hall in the Bertha Knight Landes Room from 4 to 7 p.m.
		This will include a hearing under the Washington State Environmental Policy Act.
	www.djc.com /news/en/ew.html?id=11173273 (840 words)

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