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 | |||
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1 | Thomas Knotts | 1906 | 1914 | Democratic[1] | |
2 | R.O. Johnson | 1914 | 1918 | Republican | |
3 | William F. Hodges | 1918 | 1922 | Republican | |
4 | R.O. Johnson | 1922 | March 1925[2] | Republican | |
5 | William J. Fulton | March 1925 | 1926 | Republican | |
6 | Floyd E. Williams | 1926 | 1930 | Republican | |
7 | R.O. Johnson | 1930 | 1935 | Republican | |
8 | Lee B. Clayton | 1935 | 1939 | Democratic | |
9 | Ernst Schaible | 1939 | 1943 | Republican | |
10 | Joseph E. Finerty | 1943 | 1948 | Democratic | |
11 | Eugene Swartz | 1948 | 1952 | Democratic | |
12 | Peter Mandich | 1952 | 1958 | Democratic | |
13 | George Chacharis | 1958 | 1962 | Democratic | |
14 | A. Martin Katz | 1962 | 1968 | Democratic | |
15 | Richard Hatcher | 1968 | 1987 | Democratic | |
16 | Thomas V. Barnes | 1988 | 1995 | Democratic | |
17 | Scott L. King | 1995 | 2006 | Democratic | |
18 | Rudolph M. Clay | 2006 | 2011 | Democratic | |
19 | Karen Freeman-Wilson | 2006 | Present | Democratic |