Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph edited for publication. Journalist Estelle Laughton Lindsay was the first woman elected to Los Angeles City Council in 1915. During her two-year term, Lindsay was the first woman to hold the position of acting council president, and the first woman mayor in any major American city when she served as acting mayor of Los Angeles for 36 hours during Mayor Charles E. Sebastian's absence.; Charles Edward Sebastian was served as mayor from 1915 -1916. He was the first Los Angeles Police Chief to be elected mayor. Notation written on the verso reads, ""Right to left Mayor Sebastian, Mayor Thompson of Chicago, Mrs. Thompson, Estelle Lawton Lindsay."" Los Angeles Mayor Charles E. Sebastian (right) and Los Angeles City Councilmember Estelle Laughton Lindsay (left) are pictured with Chicago Mayor William Hale Thompson and his wife, Mary Walker Wyse (center), who visited Los Angeles on July 20, 1915 accompanied by 750 members of the the First Regiment of the Illinois National Guard on the way to the Panama-Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco.
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