List of mayors of Gary, Indiana

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. Every mayor since 1943 has served as a member of the Democratic Party.

	Portrait	Mayor	Term start	Term end		Party
1		Thomas Knotts (1861–1921; aged 60)	1906[1]	1914		Democratic[2]
2		(1st) (1872–1938; aged 66)	1914	1918		Republican
3			1918	1922		Republican
4		(2nd)	1922	March 1925[3]		Republican
5			March 1925	1926		Republican
6			1926	1930		Republican
7		(3rd)	1930	1935		Republican
8			1935	1939		Democratic
9		(1879–?)	1939	1943		Republican
10		Joseph E. Finerty (1905–07.11.1992; aged 87)	1943	1948		Democratic
11			1948	1952		Democratic
12			1952	July 15, 1958[4]		Democratic
13		(11.02.1908–17.08.1983; aged 75)	July 16, 1958	December 12, 1962[4]		Democratic
14		(26.12.1915–01.04.2017; aged 101)	December 13, 1962	1963		Democratic
15		(1917–1995; aged 78)	1964	1968		Democratic
16		Richard Hatcher (1933–2019; aged 86)	January 1, 1968	December 31, 1987		Democratic
17		(born in 1936; age 86)	January 1, 1988	December 31, 1995		Democratic
18		Scott L. King (born in 1951; age 71)	January 1, 1996	March 23, 2006[4]		Democratic
–		(born in 1931; age 91)	March 24, 2006[5]	April 6, 2006		Democratic
19		Rudy Clay (1935–2014; aged 78)	April 7, 2006	December 31, 2011		Democratic
20		Karen Freeman-Wilson (born in 1960; age 61)	January 1, 2012	December 31, 2019		Democratic
21		Jerome A. Prince (born in 1964; age 57)	January 1, 2020			Democratic

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• List of mayors by G. David Yaros