Cass County, Illinois Sheriffs 1837-1986
The terms elected from "Inventory of the County Archives of Illinois, 1941," published in The Cass County Historian, March 1989 and submitted by Carol Orwig
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| NAME | TERMS OF SERVICE |
| Lemon PLASTERS | 1837, 1838 |
| John SAVAGE | 1840, 1841, 1842, 1846 |
| Joseph M. McLANE | 1848 |
| John R. FULKS | 1850 |
| William PITNER | 1852 |
| James TAYLOR | 1854 |
| James A. DICK | 1856 |
| Francis H. REARICK | 1858 |
| James TAYLOR | 1860 |
| Charles E. YECK | 1862 |
| James A. DICK | 1864 |
| Charles E. YECK | 1866 |
| Thomas CHAPMAN | 1868 |
| Horace COWAN | 1870 |
| George VOLKMAR | 1872 |
| William EPLER | 1874 |
| A.H. SIELSCHOTT | 1876, 1878, 1880, 1882 |
| John DIRREEN | 1886 |
| John J. BEATTY | 1890 |
| Louis W. PILGER | 1894 |
| Earnest P. WIDMAYER | 1898 |
| Frederick E. SCHWEER | 1902 |
| James R. SLIGH | 1906 |
| Earnest P. WIDMAYER | 1910 |
| James R. SLIGH | 1914 |
| George W. FARRER | 1918 |
| James R. SLIGH | 1922 |
| Harold C. FARRAR | 1924 |
| David C. BYUS | 1924 |
| Richard R. JOKISCH | 1926 |
| Edwin F. REICHERT | 1930 |
| G.H. CAMPBELL | 1934 |
| Harry H. HAGER | 1938 |
| C.R. "Butch" Ratcliffe | 1942 |
| Nick LONG | 1946 |
| Edwin C. BRANNAN | 1950 |
| Nick LONG | 1951 |
| John W. ADKINS | 1952 |
| Glen HILLEN | 1954 |
| Harold L. ELLSWORTH | 1954 |
| Alvin O. "Barney" REICHERT | 1962 |
| Carl WUBKER | 1966 |
| Robert THOMPSON | 1970 |
| Carl WUBKER | 1974 |
| David OSMER | 1986 |
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