Jefferson County Sheriffs

Jefferson County Sheriffs
1818 to Present

Order of service	Name	Began Term	End Term	Additional Info
1.	Lewis Watkins	1818	1824	3 two year terms
2.	W. L. Howell	1824	1826
3.	Nicholas Wren	1826	1828
4.	James Bowman	1828	1842	7 two year terms
5.	W.J.Stephenson	1842	1848	3 two year terms
6.	Wiley Piper	1848	1850
7.	J. R. Satterfield	1850	1852
8.	William Dodds	1852	1856
9.	John R. Allen	1854	1856
10.	James Wescott	1856	1858
11.	John Bagwell	1858	1860
12.	C.G. Vaughn	1860	1862
13.	J.B. Goodrich	1862	1864
14.	C.G. Vaughn	1864	1866
15.	William Dodds	1866	1868
16.	W. E. Coffey	1868	1874	3 two year terms
17.	J. B. Goodrich	1874	1876
18.	George W. Yost	1876	1882	1 two year term & 1 four year term
19.	Thomas M. Gray	1882	1886
20.	Sam Cooper	1886	1890
21.	Thomas M. Gray	1890	1894
22.	John R. Ward	1894	1898
23.	Tom E. Manion	1898	1902
24.	Sam S. Howe	1898	1906
25.	Grant Irvin	1906	1910
26.	W.S. Payne	1910	1914
27.	Tom Pasley	1914	1918
28.	Grant Holcomb	1918	1919	12-18-1918 to 10-1919
29.	Grant Irvin	1919	1922	10-1919 to 12-1922
30.	Grant Holcomb	1922	1926
31.	T. Hal Smith	1926	1930
32.	Bill Groves	1930	1934
33.	Clyde Mitchell	1934	1938
34.	Arthur Owens	1938	1942
35.	Glenn Murphy	1942	1946
36.	Chris Johnson	1946	1950
37.	Roy Taylor	1950	1954
38.	Leonard"Smokey" Wood	1954	1958
39.	Robert Ruddick	1958	1962
40.	Dewey E. Barton	1962	1966
41.	Robert Ruddick	1966	1970
42.	Dayton Harlan	1970	1974
43.	Bill Hill	1974	1978
44.	Bob D. Pitchford	1978	5-4-1993	Died in Office
45.	Roy Dean Bradford	6-1993
46.	Roger Mulch		Present

Submitted By: Cindy Ford

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