This Day in Republican History 3/9/06

March 9, 1926 Republican Bertha K. Landes elected Mayor of Seattle; first woman to be mayor of a U.S. city Of course the first woman mayor of a U.S. city would have been a Republican. Just six years earlier, Democrats were fighting to prevent women from getting the vote. Once again, it took a Constitutional amendment -- the 19th -- to defeat them. Republicans like Susan B. Anthony founded the women's suffrage movement, arguing that "the right women needed above every other...was the right of suffrage." Were it not for the racism and sexism of the Democratic Party, the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th and 24th Amendments would not have been necessary.