title: List of mayors of Rockford, Illinois
text: # 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
  * Douglas P. Scott 2001–2005
  * Lawrence J. "Larry" Morrissey 2005–2017
  * Thomas McNamara 2017–present
  