List of Beaufort County Sheriffs

Beaufort County Sheriffs

1769-1772: Roger Pinckney
1773-1774: Benjamin Garden
1774-1775: Michael Smith
1776: Tunis Tourent
1776-78: John Rhodes
1779-1780: James Joyner
1781-1782: William Rose
1783-1784: John Leacraft
1785-1788: John Grayson
1786-1787: Robert Stafford (Lincoln County)
1788-1789: William Maner (Lincoln County)
1789-1790: John Leacraft
1791-1794: James Postell
1795-1796: Joseph Brailsford
1797-1799: Charles Atkins
1799-1802: John Simmons
1802-1803: John Millan
1803-1806: Thomas Deveaux
1807-1810: William H. Hutson
1811-1814: Berkley Ferguson
1815-1820: John Cheney
1822-1826: Francis B. Baker
1827-1828: Jedidiah S. Beck
1829-1830: Robert G. Norton
1831-1834: Hugh Archer
1835-1838: William B. Buckner
1839-1844: Henry Goette
1845-1850: Edward Mulligan
1851-1854: William Youmans
1855-1858: Burrell Wiggins
1859-1861: Charles E. Davant (died in office April 18, 1861)
1861-1862: Thaddeus G. Buckner
1866-1868: W.J. Gooding
1869-1870: Alfred Williams
1871: P.M. Whitman (resigned)
1872: George Holmes
1873-1882: William Wilson (died in office)
1883-1884: Henry D. Elliot
1885: John P. Boyce (died one month after taking office)
1885-1888: Henry D. Elliott
1889-1896: George H. Reed
1896-1898: William O. Prentiss (died in office)
1898-1902: Robert E. Jenkins (died in office)
1902-1904: H.H. Porter
1904-1912: James Edward McTeer
1912-1920: Matthew O'Driscoll White (died in office)
1920: Daniel Mann
1920-1924: James H. Bailey
1924: James Edward McTeer (elected Nov. 4, 1924, died before taking office)
1924-1962: James E. McTeer
1942-1945: Hubert W. Randall (Served as deputy and was appointed sheriff during World War II while McTeer was in charge of Coast Guard Beach Patrol in the Beaufort District)
1962-1977: L.W. Wallace (removed by governor)
1977-1990: Morgan McCutchen (appointed by governor)
1991-1994: David Jennings Lucas
1995-1998: Carl McCleod
1999-present: P.J. Tanner

Source: Beaufort County Sheriff's Office