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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Mary D. Lowman
|image = Mary D. Loman ca 1893.jpg
|alt = Photo of Mary D. Lowman
|caption = Mary D. Lowman, ca. 1893
|office = Oskaloosa, Kansas
|term_start = 1888
|term_end = 1890
|birth_date = January 27, 1842
|birth_place = Indiana County, Pennsylvania
|death_date = {{death date and age|1912|06|02|1842|01|27}}
|death_place = Oskaloosa, Kansas
|birthname = Mary D. McGaha
|nationality = American
|party =
|spouse = George W. Lowman
|occupation = Schoolteacher
}}Mary D. (McGaha) Lowman (January 27, 1842 – June 12, 1912)[ was a schoolteacher and the mayor of Oskaloosa, Kansas, in the late 1880s. She was the first woman in Kansas to be elected mayor with a city council composed entirely of women.] BiographyMary D. McGaha was born on a farm in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.[ She became a schoolteacher and in 1866 married a man named George W. Lowman, with whom she had two children.][ They moved to Kansas and settle in the small town of Oskaloosa, where she became a teacher of recently emancipated black students.] In 1885, she became the city's deputy county clerk and deputy register of deeds.[ In 1888, the women of Oskaloosa, dissatisfied with poor city management, decided to run an entire slate of women for municipal office.][ (Although American women did not yet have a national right to vote, Kansas women had been given the right to vote in some municipal elections one year earlier.)][ The "Oskaloosa Improvement Ticket"][ won by a two-to-one margin,][ making Lowman the first woman in Kansas to serve as mayor with a city council composed entirely of women.][ Newspapers across the country covered the unusual election of an all-women municipal administration.][ Lowman was elected only a year after Susanna M. Salter became the nation's first woman mayor.] When Lowman and her council took office, the city treasury was empty and the city in debt.[ Lowman and her 5-member council were re-elected after their first year in office, with two members of the council being replaced by other women.][ After two years in office, Lowman and her council left the city with a replenished treasury.] Lowman died in 1912 of burns received when her clothing caught fire at a cookstove. References{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lowman, Mary D. McGaha}} 15 : 1843 births|1912 deaths|Women mayors of places in Kansas|19th-century American politicians|People from Oskaloosa, Kansas|American schoolteachers|Deaths from fire in the United States|Mayors of places in Kansas|Accidental deaths in Kansas|People from Indiana County, Pennsylvania|19th-century women politicians|Educators from Pennsylvania|Educators from Kansas|19th-century American educators|American women educators |