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Initially, the sheriffs in Missouri were elected to serve two-year terms and were not supposed to succeed themselves in consecutive terms of office, even though many did. In 1908, the law changed allowing sheriffs to be elected to four-year terms. The restriction against consecutive terms was not removed until the 1945 Revised Constitution of Missouri took effect.
The Nodaway County sheriffs who served consecutive terms, despite the legislation, were James Pennington, Henry Toel, William Collins, Benjamin Pixler, James Anderson, Scribner Beech, and James Enis.
James B. Prather was and remains the youngest man ever elected to the office of sheriff in Nodaway County. He was twenty-two years old.
Only two sheriffs have died while in office. The first was Earl M. Anderson, who died in a fatal car crash while he and Chief Deputy Beverlin were responding to a call at the Iowa line. Deputy Beverlin was critically injured but recovered. Sheriff Anderson is the only Nodaway County sheriff to die in the line of duty.
Sheriff Fred Newton drowned while on vacation in Red Wing, Minnesota. There was speculation at the time that his death was not an accident. Just weeks prior to his death he and his deputies assisted federal law enforcement in breaking up a multi-state auto theft ring.
Sheriff John Middleton and family hold the record for the longest number of years in residence in the Nodaway County rotary jail at eleven years. Sheriff Middleton moved in as chief deputy and jailer, under Sheriff Newton, and remained there after taking office as sheriff following Newton's death.
Sheriff David McClain is the only Nodaway County sheriff to hold the office of sheriff. He was elected sheriff of Holt County in 2016.
Sheriff Ben Espey held the most consecutive number of years in office, sixteen. His record remains unbroken as of 2019.
Term
|
Name
|
Title
|
Political Party
|
Apr
1845-Dec 1845
1846-1847
|
Bartlett W.
Curl
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Unknown
|
1848- Aug 1849
|
Caleb S. Burns
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Democrat
|
Aug 1849-Dec 1849
1850
1851-1852
1853-1854
|
James Pennington
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Unknown
|
1855
|
Stephen M. Jester
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Unknown
|
1856
|
James B. Prather
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Democrat
|
1857
|
John W. Evans
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Unknown
|
1858-1859
|
Benjamin F. Torrance
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Unknown
|
1860
|
Thomas J. McQuiddy
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Unknown
|
1861
|
Thaddeaus K. Beal
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Unknown
|
1862-1863
|
William Swinford
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Republican |
1864-1865
|
Joseph E. Alexander
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Democrat
|
1866-1867
|
Isaac N. Wray
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Republican
|
1868-1869
|
John Ham
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Republican
|
1870
|
John F. Bainum
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Republican
|
1871-1872
|
Isaac N. Wray
|
Sheriff/Collector
|
Republican
|
1873
1874-1875
1876-1877
|
Scribner R. Beech
|
Sheriff/Collector (1873); Sheriff
|
Republican
|
1877-1878
|
Joseph M. Cooper
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
1878-1879
1880-1881
|
Henry J. Toel
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
1882-1883
1884-1885
|
James Anderson
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
1886-1887
|
Frank Owens
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
1888-1889
|
Thomas J. Parle
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
1890-1891
|
Bernard Moran
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
1892-1893
1894-1895
1896
|
Benjamin F. Pixler
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
1897-1898
1899-1900
|
William H. Collins
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
1901-1902
1903-1904
|
James N. Enis
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
1905-1906
|
George L. Evans
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
1907-1908
1909-1912
|
William R. Tilson
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
1913-1916
|
Samuel E. Wallace
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
1917-1920
|
John F. Dowden
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
1921-1924
|
Steve A. Roach
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
1925-1928
|
Lowell B. Campbell
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
1929-1932
|
Harve England
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
1933-1936
|
Samuel E. Wallace
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
1937-1940
|
Royal E. Sellers
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
1941-1944
|
Delma E. Carmichael
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
1945-1948
1949-1952
1953-1956
1957-Feb 1958
|
Earl M. Anderson
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
Feb 25, 1958-March 10, 1958
|
George M. Atchison
|
Deputy Coroner/Interim Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
March 11, 1958-Dec 1958
1959-1962
1963-1964
|
James E. Tucker
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
1965-1968
Jan 1969-June 27, 1969
|
Fred L. Newton
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
June 27, 1969 – July 22, 1969
|
Robert Dunshee, M.D.
|
Coroner/Interim-Sheriff
|
Republican
|
July 22, 1969 – Dec 1970
1971-1972
1973-1976
|
John F. Middleton
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
1977-Aug 6, 1980
|
Roger E. Cronk
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
Aug 6, 1980 – Nov 4, 1980
|
John F. Middleton
|
Interim-Sheriff
|
Republican
|
Nov 4, 1980 – Dec 1980
1981-1984
|
Danny Estes
|
Sheriff
|
Deputy
|
1985-1988
|
David McClain
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
1989-1992
|
Danny Estes
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
1993-1996
1997-2000
2001-2004
2005-2008
|
Ben Espey
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
2009-2012
2013-2016
|
Darren White
|
Sheriff
|
Democrat
|
2017-2020
|
Randy Strong
|
Sheriff
|
Republican
|
**The beginning of the Greenback Party isn't believed to have existed in the U.S. prior to 1874, so this affiliation is believed to have been to a later run for public office after the Civil War. In rechecking other documents, it seems Mr. Swinford had something of a political-identity crisis between after his arrival in Nodaway County. He began in the Democratic Party prior to the Civil War, changed to the Republican Party during the war, changed back to the Democratic Party after the war, but in 1875 was a member of the new Greenback (Independent Party), and then by 1876 was back with the Democratic Party. Of course his affiliation with the Greenback Party made sense as the Greenback Party (later Populists, Independent, Independent Labor party) were favorable among farmers and the party was set up to organize farmers. Gold and silver were still predominately used and still backing paper currency prior to this time. The first currency to be printed was in Massachusetts in 1690. But the Greenback Party favored paper currency over only gold and silver as it was easier for purchasing and doing trade in the market.
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