Walker County Sheriff

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The Walker County Sheriff upholds the duties of Sheriff for Walker 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 Walker County:

• Hawkins Burden, 1824–1827
• Elisha Duvall, 1827–1830
• James Burden, 1830–1833
• Henry Titter, 1833–1836
• E. H. Hudson, 1836–1839
• Samuel McDade, 1839–1842
• Joseph Allen, 1842–1845
• Thomas Reed, 1845–1848
• Samuel Cooner, 1848–1851
• Thomas Reed, 1851–1854
• Samuel Cooner, 1854–1857
• Hugh Lollar, 1857–1860
• D. H. Whatley, 1860–1863
• John Guttry, 1863–1866
• John Brown, 1866–1868
• George Johnson, 1868–1870
• Henry Furgurson, 1870–1874
• G. H. Gultry, 1874–1877
• J. B. Lollar, 1877–1880
• Elijah O'Rear, 1880–1884
• Moses Barton, 1884–1892
• George Gutten, 1892–1900
• B. M. O'Rear, 1900–1903
• J. S. Moore, 1903–1907
• T. O. Long, 1907–1911
• John Gray, 1911–1915
• Jake Phillips, 1915–1919
• Claude Guttery, 1919–1923
• Guy O'Rear, 1923–1927
• S. D. Kilgore, 1927–1931
• A. N. Barrentine, 1931–1935
• Dick Burrow, 1935–1939
• Powell Hamner, 1939–1947
• G. B. Baggett, 1947–1951
• Charles Harbison, 1951–1955
• Howard Turner, 1955–1963
• Blanton Bennett, 1963–1967
• Howard Turner, 1967–1971
• Bruner Nix, 1971–1974
• Jack Trotter, 1974–1989
• Billy Ingram, 1989–1991
• Joe Robertson, 1991–1995
• John Mark Tirey, 1995–present

Reference

• Former Sheriffs at walkercounty.com