Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office History

Yavapai County Sheriffs
1864 Territory Dividied into four (4) Counties & Judicial District Established

 

Name of Sheriff	Term Started	Term Ended	Reason	Died
Van Ness Cummings Smith	6/18/1864 Appointed	12/21/1864	Resigned	08/29/1914
Jerome Calkins	12/21/1864	12/01/1865
John T. Bourke	12/01/1865	12/01/1867	DNR	03/07/1868
Andrew J. Moore	12/01/1867	04/21/1869	Resigned
John L. Taylor	04/21/1869 Appointed	01/01/1871
John H. Behan	01/01/1871	12/31/1872
James S. Thomas	01/01/1873	01/17/1874	Absconded
Henry M. Herbert	01/17/1874 Appointed	12/31/1874
Edward F. Bowers	01/01/1875	12/31/1878	Defeated
Joseph R. Walker	01/01/1879	12/31/1882
Jacob Henkle	01/01/1883	12/31/1884
William J. Mulhenon	01/01/1885	12/31/1888
William “Bucky” O’Neill	01/01/1889	12/31/1890	DNR
James R. Lowry	01/01/1891 Elected	12/31/1894	DNR
George C. Ruffner	01/01/1895	12/31/1898	DNR
John L. Munds (D)	01/01/1899 Elected	12/31/1902	DNR
Joseph I. Roberts (R)	01/01/1903 Elected	12/31/1904	Defeated
James R. Lowry	01/01/1905 Elected	12/31/1908	DNR
James W. Smith	01/01/1909 Elected	12/31/1911	DNR
Charles W. Keeler (R)	01/01/1912 Elected	12/31/1914	Defeated
Joseph Young (D)	01/01/1915 Elected	12/31/1918	DNR
Warren G. Davis	01/10/1919 Elected	09/06/1922	Died	09/06/1922
Joseph P. Dillon	09/06/1922 Appointed	12/31/1922	DNR	12/11/1933
George C. Ruffner	01/01/1923 Elected	12/31/1924	Defeated
Edward G. Weil	01/01/1925 Elected	12/31/1926	Defeated
George C. Ruffner	01/01/1927 Elected	07/27/1933	Died	07/27/1933
Robert M. Robbins (R)	08/02/1933 Appointed	12/31/1940	Defeated
Willis Butler (D)	01/01/1941 Elected	12/31/1945	Defeated
Orville Bozarth	01/01/1946 Elected	12/31/1953	Defeated
James Cramer	01/01/1954 Elected	12/31/1962	Defeated
Al Ayers	01/01/1963 Elected	08/31/1974	Resigned
Robert H. Scott	09/01/1974 Appointed	12/31/1976	Defeated
Harold E. “Curly” Moore	01/01/1977 Elected	12/31/1988	Defeated
G.C. “Buck” Buchanan (R)	01/01/1989 Elected	12/31/2004	Retired
Roy “Steve” Waugh	01/01/2005 Elected	06/02/2011	Retired
Scott Mascher	06/03/2011 Appointed	present

DNR  = Did not run for office or was not on General Election ticket in November of that Year.