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This is a list of mayors of Gary, Indiana. The first mayor, Thomas Knotts, served as Town Board president from 1906 to 1909, when Gary officially became a city.

	Mayor	Term start	Term end		Party
1	Thomas Knotts (1861–1921; aged 60)	1906^[1]	1914	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic^[2]
2	Roswell O. Johnson (1st) (1872–1938; aged 66)	1914	1918	bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Republican
3	William F. Hodges	1918	1922	bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Republican
4	Roswell O. Johnson (2nd)	1922	March 1925^[3]	bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Republican
5	William J. Fulton	March 1925	1926	bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Republican
6	Floyd E. Williams	1926	1930	bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Republican
7	Roswell O. Johnson (3rd)	1930	1935	bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Republican
8	Lee B. Clayton	1935	1939	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic
9	Ernst Schaible (1879–?)	1939	1943	bgcolor=Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Republican
10	Joseph E. Finerty (1905–07.11.1992; aged 87)	1943	1948	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic
11	Eugene Swartz	1948	1952	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic
12	Peter Mandich	1952	July 15, 1958^[4]	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic
13	George Chacharis (11.02.1908–17.08.1983; aged 75)	July 16, 1958	December 12, 1962^[5]	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic
14	John S. Visclosky (26.12.1915–01.04.2017; aged 101)	December 13, 1962	1963	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic
15	A. Martin Katz (1917–1995; aged 78)	1964	1968	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic
16	Richard Hatcher (1933–2019; aged 86)	January 1, 1968	December 31, 1987	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic
17	Thomas V. Barnes (born in 1936; age 87–88)	January 1, 1988	December 31, 1995	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic
18	Scott L. King (born in 1951; age 72–73)	January 1, 1996	March 23, 2006^[6]	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic
–	Dozier Allen Jr. (born in 1931; age 92–93)	March 24, 2006^[7]	April 6, 2006	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic
19	Rudy Clay (1935–2014; aged 78)	April 7, 2006	December 31, 2011	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic
20	Karen Freeman-Wilson (born in 1960; age 63)	January 1, 2012	December 29, 2019	bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic
21	Jerome Prince (born in 1964; age 59)	December 30, 2019		bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color\|	Democratic

References

^ President of the Town Board until 1909.
^ John C. Trafny & Stephen G. McShane (2002). Gary's East Side. p. 60. ISBN 0-7385-1953-7.
^ Robert A. Hill (1991). The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. VII. p. 65. ISBN 0-520-07208-1.
^ Resigned.
^ Resigned.
^ Resigned.
^ Interim.

External links

List of mayors by G. David Yaros

[tk-1] President of the Town Board until 1909.

[2] John C. Trafny & Stephen G. McShane (2002). Gary's East Side. p. 60. ISBN 0-7385-1953-7.

[3] Robert A. Hill (1991). The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. VII. p. 65. ISBN 0-520-07208-1.

[pm-4] Resigned.

[gc-5] Resigned.

[slk-6] Resigned.

[ry-7] Interim.

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