{"id":765,"date":"2020-10-21T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/?p=765"},"modified":"2020-10-21T15:15:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T20:15:47","slug":"walton-county-sheriffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Walton County Sheriffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The following list is from Victor Silvestri’s excellent publication, Encyclopedia of Florida Sheriffs<\/em>, which is available from the Walton County Heritage Museum Gift Shop<\/a>. The two-volume set has biographies of every sheriff who served in Florida from 1821 until 2008. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four Walton County Sheriffs died while in office: J. Murdock Bell (1909-1916), Daniel “Dorie” Clayton Adkison (1937-1938), Robert E. Gatlin (1941-1942), and Thomas Howard “Andy” Anderson (1961-1970). Names in parentheses in the table below are possible alternative names. Names in blue are linked to their biographies or obituaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1827-1830<\/td>Michael Vaughan, Sr.<\/td><\/tr>
1830-1832<\/td>Alexander McKenzie<\/td><\/tr>
1832-1834<\/td>Daniel Campbell McLeod<\/td><\/tr>
1834-1836<\/td>Abraham (Abram) Bellamy<\/td><\/tr>
1836-1840<\/td>Daniel Campbell McLeod<\/td><\/tr>
1840-1842<\/td>Alexander Campbell<\/td><\/tr>
1842-1844<\/td>Giles Bowers<\/td><\/tr>
1844-1846<\/td>William W. McCallum<\/td><\/tr>
1846-1847<\/td>Enos Evans<\/td><\/tr>
1847-1849<\/td>Anthony Hartley Brownell<\/td><\/tr>
1849-1853<\/td>William W. McCollum (McCallum)<\/td><\/tr>
1853-1855<\/td>Alexander (Neil) C. Monroe <\/td><\/tr>
1855-1857<\/td>Alexander C. Monroe<\/td><\/tr>
1858-1860<\/td>John Lauchlin Campbell<\/td><\/tr>
1861-1865<\/td>William W. McCollum<\/td><\/tr>
1865-1867<\/td>John Lauchlin Campbell<\/td><\/tr>
1868-1872<\/td>Samuel Rutan<\/td><\/tr>
1872<\/td>Lafayette Calvin McDonald<\/td><\/tr>
1872<\/td>John Alexander McLeod<\/td><\/tr>
1873-1877<\/td>Neil McPherson Campbell<\/td><\/tr>
1877-1878<\/td>James H. Rice<\/td><\/tr>
1878-1881<\/td>William Bethune McLeod<\/td><\/tr>
1881<\/td>Joseph Malary<\/td><\/tr>
1881<\/td>John William Campbell<\/td><\/tr>
1882<\/td>Malcolm D. McLean<\/td><\/tr>
1883-1889<\/td>John C. McSween<\/td><\/tr>
1889-1894<\/td>John Alexander McLeod<\/td><\/tr>
1894-1898<\/td>Marvel Manning<\/td><\/tr>
1898-1909<\/td>John William Campbell<\/td><\/tr>
1909-1916<\/td>J. Murdock Bell <\/td><\/tr>
1916-1917<\/td>Jefferson Ballow (Ballou) Cawthon<\/td><\/tr>
1917-1933<\/td>Thaddeus “Thad” Bell, Sr.<\/td><\/tr>
1933-1937<\/td>Monroe H. Prescott<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1937-1938<\/td>Daniel “Dorie” Clayton Adkison<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1938 <\/td>Celia Jernigan Adkinson (Mrs. D. C. Adkison)<\/td><\/tr>
1939-1941<\/td>Monroe H. Prescott<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1941-1942<\/td>Robert E. Gatlin<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1942-1945<\/td>Theron Aubrey McDonald<\/td><\/tr>
1945-1953<\/td>Curtis Ralph Miller<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1953-1957<\/td>Theron Aubrey McDonald<\/td><\/tr>
1957-1961<\/td>Curtis Ralph Miller<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1961-1970<\/td>Thomas Howard “Andy” Anderson<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1970<\/td>Ethlyn McDuffie Anderson (Mrs. T. H. Anderson)<\/td><\/tr>
1970-1977<\/td>Lehman Shelby “Sam” Campbell<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1977-1980<\/td>Jessie Aubrey Carter, Sr.<\/td><\/tr>
1981-2000<\/td>Quinn Arlen McMillan<\/td><\/tr>
2001-2008<\/td>Ralph L. Johnson<\/td><\/tr>
2009-present<\/td>Michael A. Adkinson, Jr.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following list is from Victor Silvestri’s excellent publication, Encyclopedia of Florida Sheriffs, which is available from the Walton County Heritage Museum Gift Shop. The two-volume set has biographies of every sheriff who served in Florida from 1821 until 2008. Four Walton County Sheriffs died while in office: J. Murdock Bell (1909-1916), Daniel “Dorie” Clayton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[272,198,292,281,98,284,108,296,7,283,294,271,81,289,227,282,285,288,295,203,94,29,297,291,232,286,293,290,213,280],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-adkison","tag-anderson","tag-bell","tag-bellamy","tag-bowers","tag-brownell","tag-campbell","tag-carter","tag-cawthon","tag-evans","tag-gatlin","tag-jernigan","tag-johnson","tag-malary","tag-manning","tag-mccallum","tag-mccollum","tag-mcdonald","tag-mcduffie","tag-mckenzie","tag-mclean","tag-mcleod","tag-mcmillan","tag-mcsween","tag-miller","tag-monroe","tag-prescott","tag-rice","tag-rutan","tag-vaughan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}