This is a partial list of the Sheriff's and their Deputies who have served the Citizens of Wayne County since 1855.  Up until recent times, the Sheriff only had one or two Criminal Deputies.  The reason that a Sheriff appears on the list and then reappears at a later date is that there was a law that stated that the Sheriff could not run for consecutive terms.  As a result of this law, the Sheriff would hold the office and then be appointed as a deputy when his term expired, only to run for office the following year.  The position was not civil service until the last few years and the deputy could be dismissed or appointed as the Sheriff desired, similar to the way many city marshalls are today.

This is an ongoing project to tell the history of these men who helped to build this county.  If you have additional information about these men such as personal trivia of photos and news articles, please contact the the webmaster at tip@co.wayne.ny.us

	Sheriff	Criminal Deputy
1823-24	Thomas Armstrong
1825-27	Reuben H. Foster
1828-30	Cullen Foster
1831-33	Calvin D. Palmeter
1834-36	Truman Heminway
1837-39	Hiram Mann
1840-42	Simon V. W. Stout
1843-45	John Borradaile
1846-48	George W. Barnard
1849-51	Chester A. Ward
1852-54	George W. Paddock
1855-57	William Nottingham
1858-60	Adrastus Snedaker
1861-63	John P Bennett
1864-66	Bartlett R. Rogers
1867-69	John P. Bennett
1870-72	John N. Brownell
1873-75	Richard P. Groat
1876-78	Thomas M. Clark
1879-82	William J. Glen
1883-85	Vernon R. Howell
1886-88	R. J. Parshall
1889-90*	Charles R. Reed
1890-91	George W. Knowles
1892-93*	Walter Thornton
1893	Theodore B. Trowbridge
1894	C.H. Ford
1895-97	George M. Sweezey
1898-00	Dewitt C.Wheeler
1901-03	George R. Miles
1904-06	Albert Yoemans
1907-09	Jerry Collins
1910-12	Orin H. Sherman
1913-15	Jerry Collins	List of Deputies
1916-18	B. E. Valentine	List of Deputies
1919-21	John L. Newman
1922-24	B.E. Valentine
1925-27	Frank C. Rich
1928-30	John L. Newman
1931-33	Jerry Collins
1934-36	John L. Newman
1937-42	Charles H. Wright
1943-45	Charles H. Wright
1946-51	F. John Lawrence
1952-57	Earl G. Keckison
1958-67	Robert Burns
1968-72	James Hurley
1973-76	Richard Kise
1977-82	Paul D. Byork
1983-2009	Richard J. Pisciotti
2010-2021	Barry C. Virts
2022-	Robert Milby
	*   Died in Office
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