| Pottawatomie County Sheriff Office History | ||||
The title “Sheriff” comes from an old English word, shire-reeve. According to Wikipedia, in Anglo-Saxon England a reeve was an officer who was appointed by the king to be responsible for the public business of the locality. A high-ranking official, the shire-reeve was the representative of the royal authority in a shire or county. |
||||
|
1857 - J.L. Wilson was the first Sheriff of Pottawatomie County, appointed February 23, 1857 1867 - Samuel Griffith 1880 - Silas Griffis 1881 - James Graham Since 1901, there have been 20 men who have served as Sheriff. The longest tenured Sheriff was Dean Taylor, serving from 1969 until 1988. |
||||
| Charley Morris | 1901-1904 | Wiley Taylor | 1945-1948 | |
| Dell Hobbes | 1905-1908 | George Prinz | 1949-1950 | |
| W.W. Huey | 1909-1912 | W.E. Grutzmacher | 1951-1952 | |
| Bert Kersey | 1913-1916 | Porter McKinnon | 1953-1956 | |
| C.D. Ladner | 1917-1918 | Charley Duncan | 1957-1960 | |
| Bert Kersey | 1919-1920 | Porter McKinnon | 1961-1964 | |
| Albert Mayer | 1921-1924 | Don Reyes | 1965-1968 | |
| Wiley Taylor | 1925-1928 | Dean Taylor | 1969-1988 | |
| Bob Springstead | 1929-1932 | Steve Harkness | 1989-1992 | |
| Jack Plummer | 1933-1936 | Anthony Metcalf | 1993-2000 | |
| Joe Dixon | 1937-1940 | Greg Riat | 2001-Present | |
| Frank Ewing | 1941-1944 | |||