page_title: Larry Gossett
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Larry Gossett / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: Crowd, MLK celebration (march and rally for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday); in the Franklin High School gymnasium (Seattle); King County Council member Larry Gossett (a Franklin alumnus) at the podium
context_page_description: Larry Gossett is an American politician and activist from Seattle. He was a member of the nonpartisan King County Council, representing District 2 from 1993 to 2019. Gossett served as chair of the Council in 2007 and 2013.
context_section_description: Gossett was born in Seattle to two sharecroppers who had emigrated from Nigton, Texas, to the Central District. He graduated Franklin High School in 1963 and later graduated from the University of Washington. In 1966 and 1967, he was a VISTA volunteer in Harlem. He initially joined VISTA for the draft deferment; his time in Harlem politicized and radicalized him.
caption: Gossett addressing a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day rally at the Franklin High School gymnasium (2006).
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