Patrick Joseph Roma (July 20, 1949 – November 26, 2017) was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who represented the 38th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1988 to 1997, leaving office to serve as a judge in New Jersey Superior Court until his retirement from the bench in 2014.
Guy Talarico was chosen by Republican county committee members in February 1997 to fill the vacancy created when Roma stepped down from office on January 10, 1997, to take a seat as a judge on the New Jersey Superior Court.
[2] When a New Jersey law banning assault weapons went into effect in June 1991, Roma was the first person in Bergen County to have turned in a weapon as inoperable.
[5] In 1992, Roma ran against five-term Democratic incumbent Robert Torricelli in New Jersey's 9th congressional district, criticizing his opponent as "the poster child for Congressional abuse" which included bouncing 27 checks drawn on the House Bank for more than $11,000 in just over three years and sending $250,000 in mailings at taxpayer expense using his franking privileges.
[6] A resident of Naples, Florida, Roma died of a stroke on November 26, 2017.