Previous Sheriffs

Office of the Sheriff

Jefferson County

New York

Established by Law 1805

Sheriffs

Abel Sherman 1805-1807
Dr. Hugh Henderson 1808
Perley Keyes 1808-1811
David I. Andrus 1812
John Paddock 1813-1814
David I. Andrus 1815-1817
Joseph Clark 1818
Amasa Trowbridge 1819-1820
Jason Fairbanks 1821-1825
Henry H. Coffeen 1826-1828
John Fry 1829-1831
Heman Millard 1832-1834
Chauncey Baker 1835-1837
Abner Baker 1838-1840
Albert P. Brayton 1841-1843
Herman Strong 1844-1846
Walter Collins 1847-1849
Rufus Herrick 1849-1851
Daniel C. Rouse 1852-1854
Wells Benton 1855-1857
Tilly R. Pratt 1857
Abner Baker 1858-1860
Francis A. Cross 1861-1863
Nathan Strong 1864-1866
James Johnson 1867-1869
Addison Wheelock 1870-1872
George Babbit 1873-1875
Abner W. Peck 1876-1878
Leonard Seaton 1879-1880
G. Harrison Smith 1881-1884
James M. Felt 1885-1886
Williard E. Saxe 1887-1890
Levi Washburn 1891-1893
Edward Barton 1894-1896
Samuel Kellogg 1897-1900
Thomas T. Ballard 1901-1903
E.J. Tallman 1903-1905
Ezra D. Bellinger 1906-1908
John H. Bogart 1909-1911
Morris S. Gragg 1912-1914
Charles C. Hosmer 1915-1917
Michael Gleason 1918-1920
Earnest S. Gillette 1921-1923
William E. Button 1924-1926
Eugene L. Burton 1927-1929
Frank D. Walrath 1930-1932
LeRoy Harrington 1933-1935
Brayton E. Peck 1936-1955
J.L. Fitzsimmons 1956
Robert B. Chaufty 1957-1971
Irving P. Angel 1972-1977
Alfred P. O'Neill 1977-1985
Franklyn F. Gowing 1985-1986
Donald M. Pettit 1986
Donald F. Newberry 1987-1994
James L. Lafferty 1994-2002
John P. Burns 2003-2014
Colleen M. O'Neill 2015-