SAPD Chiefs of Police

CHIEF MARSHALS AND CHIEFS OF POLICE
1846-2006

Chief Marshals : 1846 - 1860

01/14/1846 James Dunn
02/11/1846 P.L. Buquor
10/01/1846 Van Bibber
01/01/1847 N.R. Mallon
05/31/1848 H.M. Pittman
11/28/1848 John Crawford
05/17/1850 Vacant
06/05/1850 P.H. Schmitt
01/01/1851 John Crawford
01/01/1852 W.G.M. Samuels

01/15/1852 James Gross
01/03/1853 H.M. Smith
01/02/1854 W.R. Henry
01/01/1855 R.J. Jones
01/04/1855 E.A. Stevens
01/01/1856 W.G. Tobin
06/24/1856 William Edgar
01/03/1857 John Crawford
01/18/1858 J.L. Evans
01/03/1859 R.J. Jones

Chief Marshals : 1860 - 1870
Civil War and Reconstruction Era

01/03/1860 C. Byrne
04/06/1863 J.D. Halliday
05/18/1863 Owen Clark
01/02/1865 William Lyons
10/18/1865 Owen Clark
01/11/1866 W.B. Moore

03/20/1866 Vacant
04/04/1866 H.D. Bonnett
08/27/1866 E.A. Stevens
01/09/1867 J.L. Evans
11/09/1867 T.H.L. Payne
09/14/1868 H.D. Bonnett

Chief Marshals : 1870 - 1900

01/10/1870 A.W. Kempton
02/17/1871 Vacant
04/11/1871 L.M. Gregory
11/14/1871 William Lyons
01/05/1872 Vacant

11/12/1872 L.H. Karber
01/20/1873 John Dobbin
01/13/1879 Phil Shardein
02/27/1893 W.D. Druse
02/22/1897 Phil Shardein

Beginning ca. 1900, the titles "Chief Marshal" and "Chief of Police" were used interchangably.
By 1910 the title was always "Chief of Police."
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Chiefs of Police : 1900 - 2000

02/20/1901 James M. Van Riper
03/02/1903 W.H. Irvin
11/27/1905 James M. Van Riper
01/08/1906 Gus Mauermann
12/21/1908 Vacant
12/28/1908 Chas. T. Van Riper
07/19/1911 Frank Newman
08/19/1912 Fred Lancaster
05/29/1919 A.S. Mussey
10/15/1921 Thomas Martin
07/31/1922 Albert Van Riper
12/22/1924 T.O. Miller
06/03/1929 Owen Kilday
06/01/1939 Walter Harvey(act.)
07/20/1939 Ray Ashworth
02/10/1941 W.W. Vaughan(act.)

05/01/1941 W.W. Vaughan
06/02/1941 Aubrey Hopkins
08/05/1946 Bruce Weatherly
06/02/1947 Fred Palmer
05/10/1951 Cliff Ramchissel
12/01/1951 R.D. Allen
05/29/1953 E.B. Haddox
10/16/1953 G.W. Bichsel(act.)
10/01/1955 G.W. Bichsel
10/02/1971 E.E. Peters
03/21/1980 Robert H. Heuck
05/24/1983 Frank Hoyack (act.)
11/14/1983 Charles M. Rodriquez
09/26/1986 Frank Hoyack (act.)
11/07/1986 William O. Gibson
02/25/1995 Al A. Philippus

Chiefs of Police : 2001-

03/31/2002 Albert Ortiz 04/17/2006 William McManus

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