About Our Agency
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ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE |
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Previous Sheriffs 1752 to Present
| 1982 - present | A. Lindy Pendergrass |
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| 1958 - 1982 | C.D. Knight |
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Buck Knight retired November 1982. He was well known for his stern attitude toward discipline and other things. A retirement party held at the Big Barn consisted of over 400 people. Former County Commissioner Anne Barnes and her husband Billy, sang a song "The Legend of Buck Night." The theme of the song was "Buck's a tough old sheriff, but a darn nice guy." |
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| 1954 - 1958 | Odell Clayton |
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| Oct. 1938 - 1954 | S.T. Latta, Jr. |
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| Dec. 1928 - Oct. 1938 | W. T. Sloan |
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| L. Bunn Lloyd | |
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| Thomas E. Sparrow | |
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| Dec. 9, 1916 - May 3, 1920 | C. G. Rosemond |
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| Dec. 8, 1910 - Dec. 8, 1916 | R.D. Bain |
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Photo courtesy of News of Orange, Nov. 2nd, 1916 |
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| Sept. 5, 1904 - Dec.8, 1910 | S.M. Andrews |
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| Dec. 6, 1880 - Sept. 5, 1904 | John Knox Hughes |
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| Sept. 5, 1870 - Dec. 6, 1880 | Thomas H. Hughes |
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| Aug.15, 1868 - Sept. 5, 1870 | John Turner |
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| 1867 | E. H. Ray |
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| July 4, 1865 to 1867 | Hugh B. Guthrie |
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| Aug. 22, 1864 to July 4, 1865 | Richard M. Jones |
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| Aug. 26,1862 to Aug. 22, 1864 | Hugh B. Guthrie |
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| Aug.23, 1852 to Aug.26, 1862 | Richard M. Jones |
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| 1833 - 1852 | James C. Turrentine |
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| 1823 - 1832 | Thomas D. Watts |
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Owned the Watts Hotel on Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, from
1834 to 1846. |
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| 1820 - 1822 | Thomas Clancy |
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| 1818 - 1820 | Edward Harris |
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| 1810 - 1818 | Josiah Turner |
 Image provided by the Historical Foundation of Hillsborough and Orange County. |
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| 1809 - 1810 | David Ray |
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| 1799 - 1809 | Samuel Turrentine |
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Samuel was Sheriff of Orange Co., NC, US Marshal, Dist. of NC;
Major, War of 1812 |
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| 1796 - 1799 | Andrew Murdock |
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| 1794 - 1796 | Joseph Hodge |
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| 1793 - 1794 | John Willis |
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| 1791 - 1793 | John Sloss |
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| 1789 - 1790 | William McCauley |
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| 1787 - 1789 | John Nichols |
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| 1784 - 1786 | James Freeland |
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| 1782 - 1784 | James Mebane |
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| 1780 - 1780 | John Hawkins |
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| 1777 - 1780 | Alexander Mebane, Jr. |
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| 1772 - 1775 | Thomas Donaldson |
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| 1770 - 1772 | John Butler |
| Part of John Butler's duties was to collect the taxes for England. His brother William was a member of the regulators, that did not want to pay taxes. | |
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| 1769 - 1770 | John Lea |
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| 1768 - 1769 | Tyree Harris |
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Sheriff Tyree Harris read Governor Tryon's latest proclamation to a
Regulator assemblage regarding taxes, and was met with threats of
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| 1768 | Thomas Hart |
| Merchant, Land Speculator. Born in Virginia; moved to Orange county about 1757. Justice of the peace and sheriff of Orange county. Lieutenant colonel of militia; fought against Regulators. Had an interest in a store in Hillsboro and owned Hart's Mill, two miles from town. Member general assembly. Commissary officer for troops during Revolution. | |
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| 1765 - 1768 | William Nunn |
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| 1763 - 1765 | Thomas Hart |
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| 1760 - 1762 | William Reed |
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| 1758 - 1760 | Josiah Dixon |
| 1757 - 1758 | Lawrence Thompson |
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| 1754 - 1756 | John Gray |
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| 1752 - 1754 | Alexander Mebane |
| Delegate to Provincial Congress, 1776. Justice of peace and sheriff of Orange county. Auditor Hillsboro district, 1783-1784. Member Hillsboro and Fayetteville conventions, 1789; of general assembly, 1787-1792; and of congress, 1793-1795. Alexander was the first Sheriff of Orange County North Carolina, and one of the nine men who selected Chapel Hill as the site for University of North Carolina. | |
