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Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck.

And this is short stuff and this is a good one.

I'm excited about this one.

Chuck, let's go.

Go, Chuck, go.

Yeah, I mean, we're talking about petty coat rulers and it might surprise people considering

America today is ranked 81 out of 193 countries and women representation and government that

we actually had women who were mayors and city council people way back in the 1800s.

Yeah, there were two towns in particular, Oskar, Lucic, Kansas and Kanab, Utah that had

elected all female town councils in 1888 and 1912, respectively, which is pretty substantial.

But then Jackson, Wyoming, home to the famous Jackson whole Wyoming, which I guess is a

hamlet or a burglary or some sort of affiliated town, but it's basically the same place from

what I understand.

Oh, man, we're going to get some email from the Jackson people.

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