Carl M. King served as Mayor from 1953-1954. From notes on photo: “Carl M. King 1953-1957. Councilman and Mayor." Carl Marcus King was born on December 5, 1908 in Utah and died on April 19, 1988 in California. His Burbank Leader obituary read, "Former Burbank Mayor Carl M. King, 79, died April 19, at his home in Newhall. Born in Garland, Utah, he moved to Burbank in the middle 1930s. King was a self-employed building contractor. He served 11 years with the city of Burbank as councilman and member of the City Planning Commission. He became Mayor on May 1, 1953. He remained in office until August 1954. In 1954, King was named by the County Board of Supervisors to the Los Angeles County Watershed Protection and Rehabilitation Commission. In the same year he had been appointed to the League of California Cities Civil Defense Committee, and was named a member of the state Advisory Board of the California Safety Council. King served as president of the Burbank Festival of Progress, and was named Burbank Citizen of the Year 1957. He was a member of the Burbank-Glendale Chapter of Contractors Association, the board of directors of Kiwanis International, the Burbank Chamber of Commerce, and the Parent-Teacher Association. King was most active in the Verdugo Hills Council, Boy Scouts of America. He was a scoutmaster of Jamboree Troop 10 at the National Jamboree in Newport Beach, in 1953, and became the recipient of the Master Scout Award. He attended several other Jamboree events including Canada, and most recently Australia this past January. He was district commissioner and was a recipient of the Silver Beaver Award. Mr. King was also very active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He was the former bishop of the Burbank Ward, served a three year mission in Minnesota, and during his stay in Portland, Ore., he served as area supervisor for all church construction in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. King is survived by his wife, Virginia; sons, Larry and David of Burbank, Wallace of Portland, Ore., Leon of Sacramento and Dennis of Canyon Country; daughter, Sharon Mortenson of Cupertino; 31 grandchildren; one great-grandchild."
