Scott L. King

Scott L. King was mayor of Gary, Indiana from 1996 to 2006, when he resigned.

King received his bachelor's degree from Concordia University and his law degree from Valparaiso University School of Law.

King was a prosecutor for the state of Indiana and an assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Indiana.

[1] He was Gary's first white mayor since the election of Richard Hatcher in 1967.

He was briefly succeeded by then-deputy mayor and former Calumet Township trustee Dozier T. Allen as acting mayor, and subsequently by Rudy Clay.