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| - | Frederick G. Stickels was elected Sheriff of [[Lane County]] in [[1919]], serving until [[1925]]. Before heading up law enforcement in the county, Stickels was a Deputy County Clerk from [[1905]] to [[1909]] and was [[Eugene City]] Treasurer from [[1915]] to 1919. Stickels lived in the Eugene area most of his life. He moved to a farm in the Alvadore area of Eugene from Iowa when he was two years old.
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| - | Frank E. Taylor followed Stickels as Sheriff when he was elected in 1925 and served until [[1929]]. He was born in Sullivan County in Missouri and later moved to the Eugene area. Bown was back again from 1929 to 1933.
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| - | C.A. "Tom" Swarts, who succeeded Taylor, was Sheriff two different times. He first served from 1933 to November 1942, when he resigned for military service during World War II. When he came back, he served the second time from 1946 to 1953. Swarts was born in Marseilles, Illinois, later moving to the Springfield area.
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| - | Orval E. Crowe, who was on the Lane County Commission twice, filled in for Swarts while he was in the service.
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| - | Swarts was on the County Commission a total of 10 years. He died a year after leaving the Sheriff's Office after suffering a heart attack while driving his car in the Springfield area.
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| - | Edward Woodrow Elder, a Montana native, was elected to succeed Swarts in 1953 and stayed on for eight years, serving as head of Lane County law enforcement until 1961. After he left the Sheriff' s Office, Elder was elected to the State Legislature in 1961.
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| - | Harry Hayden Marlowe followed Elder, serving as Sheriff of the county from 1961 to 1973. Marlowe brought with him plenty of law enforcement experience. He was a Deputy Sheriff in Contra Costa, California from 1939 to 1941, was on the Anchorage, Alaska Police Department from 1945 to 1946 and the Alaska Highway Patrol from 1946 to 1951. Marlowe signed on with the Lane County Sheriff's Office as a Deputy in 1955.
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| - | David N. Burks was elected Sheriff of the county in 1973. He resigned in May 1991 when he learned he had cancer. He died in August.
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| - | Burks began his law enforcement career in 1958 when he signed on with the Lane County Sheriff's Office as a Deputy, working his way up to a detective lieutenant from 1967 to 1973, when he ran for Sheriff. Burks won four straight elections.
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| - | He was picked by the state to serve on a number of committees including the Community Corrections Advisory Committee, State Organized Crime Commission, Board on Police Standards and Training, State Methadone Advisory Committee and the State Corrections Advisory Committee.
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| - | Burks was named Oregon Sheriff of the Year in 1977, 1980, 1982 and 1987 and was the recipient of numerous appreciation awards from state and local groups.
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Articles in category "Lane County sheriffs"
The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
