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Mayors and Postmasters of Rome, New York

Mayors of Rome, 1870-2022 (may be incomplete!)
Calvert Comstock 1870-71 George Merrill 1872-75 Samuel B. Stevens 1875-77 Edward L. Stevens 1877-78 George Barnard 1879-81 Edward Comstock 1882-83 Frederick E. Mitchell 1883-84 Edward Comstock 1885-87 James Stevens 1887-91 E. Stuart Williams 1891-93 Samuel Gillette 1893-95 Wiley J. P. Kingsley 1895-99 Abner S. White 1899-1901 Hedding A. Caswell 1901-04 Thomas G. Nock 1904-06 Albert R. Kessinger 1906-12 Stewart E. Townsend 1912-14 H. Clayton Midlam 1914-20 G. Arthur Mickle 1920-22 William B. Reid 1922-23 Fred L. Martin 1924-25 Jeremiah H. Carroll 1926-27 Arthur C. Tedd 1928-31 William B. Reid 1932-33 Arthur C. Tedd 1934-35 Ray Armstrong 1936-37 E. Huntington Ethridge 1938-41 Walter W. Abbott 1942-43 John C. Schantz 1944-49 Alfred M. Hoehn 1950-51 David R. Townsend 1952-53 Samuel Wardwell, Jr. 1954-55 Joseph G. Herbst 1956-59 Philip E. Tosti 1959-60 Charles T. Lanigan 1960-62 Lewis C. Wood 1963-64 William A. Valentine 1964-80 Carl J. Eilenberg 1980-92 Joseph A. Griffo 1992-2003 John J. Mazzaferro 2003-04 James F. Brown 2004-11 Joseph R. Fusco, Jr. 2011-15 Jacqueline Izzo 2015-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1909 Nov 2: Albert R. Kessinger (Dem), elected.
  • 1911 Nov 7: Stewart E. Townsend (Rep), elected.
  • 1915 Nov 2: H. Clayton Midlam (Dem), elected.
  • 1921 Nov 8: William B. Reid (Dem), elected.
  • 1923 Nov 6: Fred L. Martin (Rep), elected; Jeremiah H. Carroll (Dem), defeated.
  • 1925 Nov 3: Jeremiah H. Carroll (Dem), elected.
  • 1927 Nov 8: Arthur C. Tedd (Rep), elected.
  • 1929 Nov 5: Arthur C. Tedd (Rep), elected.
  • 1933 Nov 7: Arthur C. Tedd (Rep), elected.
  • 1935 Nov 5: Ray Armstrong (Dem), elected.
  • 1937 Nov 2: E. Huntington Ethridge (Rep), elected; Ray Armstrong (Dem), defeated.
  • 1939 Nov 7: E. Huntington Ethridge (Rep), elected; Stuart L. Gerwig (Dem), defeated; Albert R. Tully (American Labor), defeated.
  • 1943 Nov 2: John C. Schantz (Rep), elected.
  • 1949 Nov 8: Alfred M. Hoehn (Dem & American Labor), elected.
  • 1951 Nov 6: David R. Townsend (Rep & Liberal), elected.
  • 1959 Nov 3: Charles T. Lanigan (Rep), elected.

    Postmasters at Rome, 1836-1947 (may be incomplete!)
    Jay Hathaway as of 1836 B. Whitman Williams as of 1881 J. D. Corcoran as of 1887 Charles H. Dunning as of 1897 George G. McAdam as of 1901 Albert R. Kessinger as of 1915-21 William T. Binks as of 1928 Timothy V. O'Shea as of 1937-47

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