Harnett County Sheriffs

(taken from the L. M. Chaffin List of 1966, and the Harnett County News)

James A. Johnson                            March 11, 1855 to 1858

James Robert Grady                        1858 to 1870

Kenneth McNeill                                1870 to 1876

John A. Green                                   1876 to 1890

Colon McArtan                                  1890 to 1894

John H. Pope                                     1894 to 1898

Silas A. Salmon                                1898 to 1904

William Franklin Pearson                 1904 to his death, October 7, 1905

Charles Franklin Pope                     October 12, 1905, date of his appointment by

                                                            Board of County Commissioners, to 1906

James B. Lanier                                1906 to 1912

Isaac W. Smith                                  1912 to 1914

J. McKay Byrd                                   1914 to 1916

William H. Turlington                         1916 to 1920

J. William McArtan                            1920 to 1924

Arthur F. Fowler                                 1924 to 1926

L. Kyle Matthews                               1926 to 1928

John Henry Tart                                 1928 to 1930

Arthur F. Fowler                                 1930 to 1932

William E. Salmon                            1932 to 1954

Claude R. Moore                               1954 to 1958

Wade H. Stewart                               1958 to 1978

Lewis Rosser                                    1978 to his death, February 1994

Larry Knott                                         Appointed February 1994 to 2002

Larry Rollins                                       2002 to present

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