Scott K. Evans is a Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

 politician and the former Mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Biography

Evans is a Battalion Chief with the Atlantic City Fire Department. He was the chairman of the Atlantic City Democratic Committee when former Mayor Bob Levy

Bob Levy

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 resigned in October 2007. Following state law, the party Evans chaired nominated Evans and two other people to serve as mayor until the next general election. City Council then picked Evans from the three candidates.
Evans lost the city Democratic party nomination June 3, 2008 to Lorenzo Langford

Lorenzo Langford (politician)

Lorenzo Tyrone Langford is the Mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey and the resort city's second African American mayor.-Biography:Langford was educated in the Atlantic City public school system and graduated from Atlantic City High School, Class of 1974...

 and the city Democratic party chairmanship on June 9, 2008 to Robert "Bob" McDevitt.

Langford was sworn in November 13, 2008 after winning the general election.