Morse Block

Historical marker location:

2280 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California

( Marker is at the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Bancroft Way on Shattuck Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1998

Dickey and Reed, Architects. 1906.

The first female mayor in the U.S. was elected in California in 1887. Susanna M. Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas, but she was born in California and later moved to Kansas with her husband.