Dallas County Sheriff
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Dallas County, Texas, the sheriff heads the Dallas County Sheriff's Office, the county's main law enforcement agency.[1]
The department the sheriff heads was established on March 30, 1846,[1][2] and the first sheriff was elected on the very same day.[2]
List of sheriffs
| List of Sheriffs[2] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Order (#) | Sheriff | Tenure | Note(s) |
| 1st | John Huitt | March 30, 1846–c. 1847 | Elected on the same day that the county was established; died in office circa 1847 |
| 2nd | Rowland Huitt | Jan.–Aug. 1848 | appointed after death of his brother |
| 3rd | William Jenkins | 1848–1850 | |
| 4th | Trezevant C. Hawpe | 1850–1854 | |
| 5th | Adam C. Haught | 1854–1856 | |
| 6th | Burnett M. Henderson | 1856–1858 | was only 19 years old when elected. Shortly after leaving office was arrested on charges of acting as an agent of the secessionist movement. He was tried by a federal tribunal, and sentenced to death by hanging. Was shot fatally while he was attempting to break out of prison. |
| 7th | Wormley Carter | 1858–1860 | |
| 8th | Allen Beard | 1860–1862 | |
| 9th | N.O McAdams | 1862–1866 | became the first sheriff to serve multiple terms after being re-appointed by the provisional government at the end of the American Civil War |
| 10th | Jeremiah M. Brown | 1866 | elected; removed as Reconstruction policies were implemented and replaced the county's elected sheriff with an appointed sheriff |
| 11th | Norval M. Winniford | 1866–1873 | appointed in 1866, elected in 1870; was the first Republican to hold the office, and last Republican to hold it until 1976 |
| 12th | James E. Barkley | 1873–1876 | |
| 13th | William M. Moon | 1876–1882 | |
| 14th | William H.W. Smith | 1882–1886 | |
| 14th | William Henry Lewis | 1886–1892 | first sheriff elected to three terms |
| 15th | Ben Cabell | 1892–1900 | resigned after being elected mayor of Dallas |
| 16th | Lee H. Hughes | 1900–1901 | appointed after Cabell's resignation |
| 17th | J. Roll Johnson | 1901–1905 | |
| 18th | Arther L. Ledbetter | 1905–1910 | |
| 19th | Ben F. Brandenburg | 1910–1914 | |
| 20th | Will K. Reynolds | 1914–1918 | |
| 21st | Don Harston | 1914–1924 | |
| 22nd | Schuyler Marshall Jr. | 1924–1927 | |
| 23rd | Allen Seale | 1927–May 16, 1928 | first sheriff to win election as a write-in; died in office |
| 24th | Lula E. Crouch Seale | 1928–1929 | appointed in a widow's succession; first woman to hold the office |
| 25th | Hal Hood | 1929–1933 | |
| 26th | Smoot Schmid | 1933–1947 | |
| 27th | Bill Decker | 1947–August 29, 1970 | died in office; first elected in 1947 with opposition, but unopposed in all re-elections subsequent to that' |
| 28th | Clarence Jones | 1970–1977 | appointed; had been a deputy since 1957 |
| 29th | Carl Thomas | 1977 | second Republican to hold the office and the first to hold it since Reconstruction |
| 30th | Don Byrd | Jan. 1981–Jan. 1985 | Republican |
| 31st | James C. Bowles | Jan. 1985–Jan. 2005 | Republican |
| 32nd | Lupe Valdez | Jan. 2005–Dec. 6 2017 | first woman elected to the office and second to hold it; first Democrat to hold it since 1977 |
| 33rd | Marian Brown | 2018–present | third woman to hold the office |