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J.H. Lipscomb

J.H. Lipscomb

1921 - 1941

Democrat

Charlotte County's first sheriff was James H. Lipscomb, a school teacher, former town marshal and long-time member of the local Masonic Lodge.

Governor Hardee appointed J. H. Lipscomb the first Charlotte County Sheriff on May 4, 1921.

A 1920 news report of the arrests made in a single month gives an example of the types of crimes the county's first sheriff would have to face.

In an area twice as large as Charlotte County is now, the sheriff made 37 arrests. Drunkenness, gambling and bootlegging moonshine accounted for 13 of them.

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