List of mayors of Rockford, Illinois

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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

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Black History Month 2017". Rockford Housing Authority. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2019.

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