List of mayors of Rockford, Illinois

This is a list of mayors of Rockford, Illinois, United States.

One-year terms: 1852–1881

• Willard Wheeler 1852–1853
• Hiram R. Maynard 1853–1854
• Ulysses M. Warner 1854–1855
• Edward Vaughn 1855–1856
• James L. Loop 1856–1857
• William Brown 1857–1858
• Seeley Perry 1858–1859
• Charles Williams 1859–1864
• Albert Fowler 1864–1866, 1867–1868
• Edward H. Baker 1866–1867, 1868–1869
• Seymour G. Bronson 1869–1873
• Gilbert Woodruff 1873–1875
• Robert H. Tinker 1875–1876
• Levi Rhoades 1876–1877
• Duncan Ferguson 1877–1878
• William Watson 1878–1879
• Sylvester B. Wilkins 1879–1881

Two-year terms: 1881–1937

• Samuel P. Crawford 1881–1883
• Alfred Taggart 1883–1887
• Horace C. Scovill 1887–1889
• John H. Sherratt 1889–1891
• Henry N. Starr 1891–1893
• Amasa Hutchins 1893–1895, 1901–1903
• Edward W. Brown 1895–1901
• Charles E. Jackson 1903–1907
• Mark Jardine 1907–1911
• William Bennett 1911–1917
• Robert Rew 1917–1921
• J. Herman Hallstrom 1921–1927, 1929–1933
• Burt M. Allen 1927–1929
• C. Henry Bloom 1933–1937

Four-year terms 1937–

• Charles F. Brown 1937–1941
• C. Henry Bloom 1941–1953
• Milton A. Lundstrom 1953–1957
• Benjamin T. Schleicher 1957–1973
• Robert McGaw 1973–1981
• John McNamara 1981–1989
• Charles Box 1989–2001, first African American mayor of Rockford^[1]
• Douglas P. Scott 2001–2005
• Lawrence J. "Larry" Morrissey 2005–2017
• Thomas McNamara 2017–present

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External links[]

• Haight Village History
• Office of the Mayor, City of Rockford, Illinois