Shelby County Sheriff
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The Shelby County Sheriff upholds the duties of Sheriff for Shelby County on behalf of the State of Alabama. The sheriff is charged chiefly with preserving the peace by enforcing the laws of the state, executing orders of the courts, keeping a jail and quelling uprisings. In these duties the Sheriff is enabled by law the right of posse comitatus (the power of the county), to call citizens into service in times of emergency.
This is a list of sheriffs of Shelby County:
- James Hamilton, 1818–1820
- William B. Arnold, 1820–1822
- Ezekiel Henry, 1822–1827
- James M. Nabors, 1827–1829
- Martin H. McHenry, 1829–1831
- Thomas Toomey, 1834–1837
- Archibald Sloan, 1837–1840
- Benjamin F. Randall, 1840–1843
- Thomas H. Brasher, 1843 – 1846
- Benjamin F. Randall, 1846–1849
- James M. Finley, 1849–1852
- Hudson W. Nelson, 1852–1855
- John T. McCormick, 1855
- William P. Reeves, 1855–1856
- Todd R. Wyatt, 1856–1857
- John Edmondson, 1857
- Henry J. Sawyer, 1857 – 1860
- Richard H. Brasher, 1860–1863
- James Walton, 1863–1865
- James H. Duran, 1865
- Charles B. Elliott, 1865–1866
- Columbus C. Cunningham, 1866
- Thomas Harrison, 1866–1868
- Lewis H. Duyck, 1868–1869
- Thomas Harrison, 1869 – 1872
- Francis A. Nelson, 1872–1877
- Rufus M. DeShazo, 1877–1880
- Francis A. Nelson, 1880–1884
- Edwin F. Vest, 1884–1888
- William R. Carter, 1888–1892
- Hudson W. Nelson, 1892–1896
- Edwin F. Vest, 1896–1899
- Junius L. Walthall, 1899–1900
- Robert F. Cox, 1900–1906
- James H. Fulton, 1906–1909
- Henry M. Norris, 1909–1910
- John R. Allan, 1911–1915
- James H. Fulton, 1915–1918
- Andrew Jackson, 1919–1922
- James J. Falkner, 1923–1926
- Curtis J. Falkner, 1927–1929
- Knox E. Wooley, 1929–1934
- Claude H. Fore, 1935–1938
- Bun White, 1939–1942
- Luther T. Bozeman, 1943–1950
- Bud Norwood, 1950–1954
- Hugh M. Sims, 1955–1958
- Chuck Harris, 1959
- Red Walker, 1959–1978
- Buddy Glasgow, 1979–1990
- James Jones, 1991–2002
- Chris Curry, 2003-2015
- John Samaniego, 2015-
See also
References
- History at shelbyso.com
- Shelby County Alabama Sheriffs: 1818 To Date, researched by Bobby Joe Seales