John Hanson Thomas Jerome (c. 1816 – January 25, 1863) was Mayor of Baltimore from 1850–1852.
The Maryland Institute Hall, Marsh Market Space and Baltimore Street, was erected (though it was later destroyed in the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 which destroyed over 1,500 buildings in the city).
Bonds to the extent of $1,500,000 of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad were guaranteed by the city.
[1] In one of his messages to the Council Mayor Jerome proposed an ambitious programme of municipal development, among which was the acquisition of Federal Hill.
[1] Jerome died on January 25 year 1863 at his house in Govanstown, Baltimore.