The Sheriff's of Raleigh County
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The Raleigh County Sheriff's Office is proud to display a history of the Sheriff's of Raleigh County. This article gives dates and some photo's of the men that were, and are the law in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
The following is a list of the Sheriff's of Raleigh County and their terms.
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YEARS
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NAME
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PICTURE
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1850 - 1853
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John T. Clay
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1853 - 1855
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Wilson Abbott
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1855 - 1859
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C. C. Roles
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1859 - 1863
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H. M. Riffe
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1863 - 1865
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No Sheriff
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1865 - 1867
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Lewis Hull
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1867 - 1871
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A. J. Harper
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1871 - 1877
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J. B. Underwood
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1877 - 1881
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W. C. Riffe
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1881 - 1885
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Wilson Sweeney
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1885 - 1889
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J. Wesley Harper
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1889 - 1893
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W. T. Shumate
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1893 - 1897
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H. A. Snuffer
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1897 - 1901
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A. B. Ballard
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1901 - 1905
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Harvey Cook
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1905 - 1907
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W. R. Campbell
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1907 - 1909
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John F. Davis
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1909 - 1913
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C. V. Cottle (left)
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1913 - 1917
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G. W. Thompson
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1917 - 1921
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W. L. Foster
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1921 - 1924
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P. L. Blankenship
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1925 - 1929
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Isaiah Kidd
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1929 - 1933
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M. J. Meadows
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1933 - 1937
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C. C. Lewis
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!937 - 1941
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H. G. Farmer
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!941 - 1945
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Ash Mankin
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1945 - 1949
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C.C. Lewis
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1949 - 1953
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Okey A. Mills
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1953 - 1957
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John C. Ward
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1957 - 1961
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Okey A. Mills
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1961 - 1965
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Slim Thompson
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1965 - 1969
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Okey A. Mills
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1969 - 1973
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Zina French
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1973 - 1977
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Okey A. Mills
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1977 - 1981
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Okey A. Mills
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1981 - 1985
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Claude England
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1985 - 1989
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R. Michael Mangum
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1989 - 1993
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R. Michael Mangum
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1993 - 1997
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Frank R. Lavender
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1997 - 2001
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Frank R. Lavender
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2001 - 2005
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D. W. "Danny" Moore
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2005 - 2009
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D. W. "Danny" Moore
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2009 -
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R.S. "Steve" Tanner
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Please note that the photo's of Sheriff Lavender, Sheriff Mangum, and Sheriff England were graciously donated by the Register Herald. The photo of Zina French was donated by a family member. If you have photo's of these great men, please let the JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING know. We would like to eventually have a page dedicated to some of the Sheriff's telling a little about them and their tenure as the Sheriff of Raleigh County.
