Jerome Bowers Peterson (1859–1943), was an American newspaper editor in New York City, as well as a consular official for the United States Department of State, and served as customs revenue appointee for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

[1][2] Peterson was a co-founding editor of The New York Age newspaper in 1887, and held a consular position to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela in 1904 to 1906.

[6] Peterson was a founding owner and editor at The New York Age, a noted African American newspaper in New York City,[4] working alongside editor Timothy Thomas Fortune, and his brother Emanuel Fortune Jr.. Ida B.

Wells was invited by Peterson and Timothy Thomas Fortune to advance her anti-lynching campaign at the New York Age newspaper.

[2] He was deputy collector of Internal Revenue Service (IRS), under the leadership of Charles W. Anderson.