History
Tom Green county was established by the state legislature on March 13, 1874, and named after Thomas Green, a Confederate brigadier general. The county was fully organized in 1875 and the first Tom Green County Sheriff entered office that same year. Because of the omission of a northern boundary, Tom Green county was a huge area of more than 60,000 square miles that included the land of sixty-six modern Texas counties!
Sheriff's of Tom Green County:
2020-CURRENT - J. Nick Hanna
2013-2020 - David Jones
04/01/2011-2012 - Truman Richey
2001-03/31/2011 - Joe Hunt
1997-2000 Dan Gray
1993-1996 - Ule "Pete" Skains
1979-1992 Ernest Haynes
07/12/1971-03/11/1978 Odell Wagoner
1955-06/25/1971 Cecil Turner
1945-1954 - J.B. "Buck" Bryson
1937-1944 E.E. "Hesse" Lowe
1933-1936 - Frank Van Court
1924-1932 - J.R. "Bob" Hewitt
1920-1923 Frank M. Duckworth
1910-1919 - Hawley C. Allen
1905-1909 - J.S. McConnell (last Sheriff to collect taxes)
1901-1904 - J.B. Allen
1892-1900 - Gerome Shield
1885-1892 - J. Willis Johnson
1881-1884 James D. Spears
1879-1880 - Alden McIlvain
1877-1878 - C.T. Henderson
1875-1876 - Frank LaMotte
