EPISODE · Oct 14, 2025 · 10 MIN
Mayor’s wife gave him a real election-day surprise
from Offbeat Oregon History podcast · host Finn J.D. John
Laura Starcher and her friends were fed up with the halfhearted, desultory service they were getting from city government. So they got organized, ran for all the public offices, and won ... much to the chagrin of the defeated mayor: Starcher's husband. (Umatilla, Umatilla County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1903d.umatilla-petticoat-revolution-540.html)
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