Edith P. Welty

Edith Parmenter Welty (September 10, 1881 – December 31, 1957) was an American civic reformer and the only female mayor of Yonkers, New York. A longtime advocate of non-partisan, professional municipal government organized under the council–manager government model, she served on the Yonkers Common Council for a decade and became mayor in 1949 following the resignation of her predecessor, Curtis E. Frank. Her tenure reflected the persistence of Yonkers’ mid-century good-government reform movement, though her coalition’s control of the Common Council was intermittent and often contested. Provided by Wikipedia