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 | |||
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1 |
Thomas Knotts (1861–1921; aged 60) |
1906 [1] | 1914 | Democratic [2] | ||
2 |
Roswell O. Johnson (1st) (1872–1938; aged 66) |
1914 | 1918 | Republican | ||
3 | William F. Hodges | 1918 | 1922 | Republican | ||
4 | Roswell O. Johnson (2nd) | 1922 | March 1925 [3] | Republican | ||
5 | William J. Fulton | March 1925 | 1926 | Republican | ||
6 | Floyd E. Williams | 1926 | 1930 | Republican | ||
7 | Roswell O. Johnson (3rd) | 1930 | 1935 | Republican | ||
8 | Lee B. Clayton | 1935 | 1939 | Democratic | ||
9 |
Ernst Schaible (1879–?) |
1939 | 1943 | Republican | ||
10 |
Joseph E. Finerty (1905–07.11.1992; aged 87) |
1943 | 1948 | Democratic | ||
11 | Eugene Swartz | 1948 | 1952 | Democratic | ||
12 | Peter Mandich | 1952 | July 15, 1958 [4] | Democratic | ||
13 |
George Chacharis (11.02.1908–17.08.1983; aged 75) |
July 16, 1958 | December 12, 1962 [4] | Democratic | ||
14 |
John S. Visclosky (26.12.1915–01.04.2017; aged 101) |
December 13, 1962 | 1963 | Democratic | ||
15 |
A. Martin Katz (1917–1995; aged 78) |
1964 | 1968 | Democratic | ||
16 |
Richard Hatcher (1933–2019; aged 86) |
January 1, 1968 | December 31, 1987 | Democratic | ||
17 |
Thomas V. Barnes (born in 1936; age 87–88) |
January 1, 1988 | December 31, 1995 | Democratic | ||
18 |
Scott L. King (born in 1951; age 72–73) |
January 1, 1996 | March 23, 2006 [4] | Democratic | ||
– |
Dozier Allen Jr. (born in 1931; age 92–93) |
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 63) |
January 1, 2012 | December 31, 2019 | Democratic | ||
21 |
Jerome A. Prince (born in 1964; age 59) |
January 1, 2020 | December 31, 2023 [6] |
Democratic
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22 |
Eddie Melton (born in 1980; age 44) |
January 1, 2024 | incumbent [7] | Democratic |