Past Mayors since the City of Rome's incorporation in 1870.

1870-71 Calvert Comstock
1872-75 George Merrill
1875-77 Samuel B. Stevens
1877-78 Edward L. Stevens
1879-81 George Barnard
1882-83 Edward Comstock
1883-84 Frederick E. Mitchell
1885-87 Edward Comstock
1887-91 James Stevens
1891-93 E.Stuart Williams
1893-95 Samuel Gillette
1895-99 Dr. Wiley J. P. Kingsley
1899-1901 Abner S. White
1901-04 Hedding A. Caswell
1904-06 Thomas G. Nock
1906-12 Albert R. Kessinger
1912-14 Stuart E. Townsend
1914-20 H. Clayton Midlam
1920-22 G. Arthur Mickle
1922-24 Dr. William B. Reid
1924-26 Fred L. Martin
1926-28 Jeremiah H. Carroll
1928-32 Arthur C. Tedd
1932-34 Dr. William B. Reid
1934-36 Arthur C. Tedd
1936-38 Ray Armstrong
1938-42 E. Huntington Ethridge
1942-43 Walter W. Abbott
1944-49 John C. Schantz
1950-51 Alfred M. Hoehn
1952-53 David R. Townsend
1954-55 Samuel Wardwell, Jr.
1956-59 Joseph G. Herbst
1959-60 Philip E. Tosti
1960-62 Charles T. Lanigan
1963 Lewis C. Wood
1964-1980 William A. Valentine
1980-92 Carl J. Eilenberg
1992-2003 Joseph A. Griffo
6/2003-12/2003- John J. Mazzaferro
2004 James F. Brown