ALLEGANY COUNTY, MARYLAND

JUDICIAL BRANCH

SHERIFFS

Elected by Voters to 3-year terms (Constitution of 1776, sec. 42):
1791-1794 John Conrad Beatty
1794-1797 John B. Beall
1797-1800 Robert Sinclaire
1800-1803 John Beatty (F)
1803-1806 Levi Hilleary (F)
1806-1809 William Bruce (R)
1809-1812 William Hilleary (F)
1812-1815 Thomas Pollard (D)
1815-1818 William R. Dawson (R)
1818-1821 George Bruce (D)
1821-1824 Andrew Bruce (R)
1824-1827 William McMahon
1827-1830 Richard Beall
1831-1833 Moses Rawlings
1834-1836 Lawrence O. Holt
1837-1839 Thomas Dowden
1840 Michael T. Porter
1841-1842 John M. Carleton
1842-1844 Normond Bruce
1845-1848 Moses Rawlings
1849-1850 John Barnard

Elected by Voters to 2-year terms (Constitution of 1851, Art. IV, sec. 20):
1851-1853 George M. Blocher
1853-1855 Percy Shultz
1855-1857 John Everett
1857-1859 Hanson Willison
1859-1861 Henry R. Atkinson (A)
1861-1863 Thomas G. McCulloh
1863-1865 Basil J. Garlitz

Elected by Voters to 2-year terms (Constitution of 1864, Art. IV, sec. 49):
1865-1867 Daniel Duncan

Elected by Voters to 2-year terms (Constitution of 1867, Art. IV, sec. 44):
1867-1869 Hanson Willison
1869-1871 George L. Layman
1871-1873 Richard T. Gross
1873-1875 James C. Lynn (R)
1875-1877 John G. Bauer
1877-1879 Edward Manly (D)
1879-1881 Henry Hanekamp
1881-1883 J. William Shuck
1883-1885 Archibald McMillan
1885-1887 Daniel Houck (R)
1887-1889 Otto Hohing (R)
1889-1891 David Walker (R)
1891-1893 Samuel S. Warnick (R)
1893-1895 Clarence M. King (R)
1895 Archibald McMillan
1895-1897 August Miller
1898-1899 Robert P. Casey
1900-1901 James Martin
1902-1903 Fuller Barnard (D)
1904-1905 George E. DeNeen
1906-1907 Horace R. Hamilton
1908-1909 William E. Hodel (D)
1909-1911 Noah Hendley (R)
1911-1913 James Corfield (R)
1914-1915 Harry Irvine
1916-1917 Peter C. McFarland
1918-1919 Robert M. Hutcheson
1920-1921 Anthony Harvey
1922-1923 Peter C. McFarland
1923-1926 W. Ralph Young

Elected by Voters to 4-year terms (Constitution of 1867, Art. XVII; added by Chapter 227, Acts of 1922, ratified Nov. 7, 1922):
1926-1930 William R. Harvey (R)
1930-1934 Hugh A. Hotchkiss (R)
1934-1938 George E. Kemp (R)
1938-1942 Lucian C. Radcliffe (R)
1942-1946 David M. Steele (R)

Elected by Voters to 4-year terms (Constitution of 1867, Art. IV, sec. 44, amended by Chapter 786, Acts of 1945, ratified Nov. 5, 1946):
1946-1958 Edward R. Muir (R)
1958-1970 Paul C. Haberlein (R)
1970-1974 William E. Orr, Jr.
1974-1978 Francis D. Michaels (D)
1978-1990 Donald R. Wade (R)
1990-1992 Gary W. Simpson (R)
1992-2010 David A. Goad (D)
2010- Craig A. Robertson (R)

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