The Oklahoma Badge
Adair County Sheriff Department
Alfalfa County Sheriff Department
Alfalfa County was formed at statehood in 1907 from Woods County. The county is named after William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, the president of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and ninth governor of Oklahoma. He was instrumental creating the county from the original, much larger Woods county.
Dianna Everett, "Alfalfa County," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Accessed January 19, 2016.
Shirk, George H. (March 15, 1987). Oklahoma Place Names (Revised ed.). University of Oklahoma Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0806120287.
Atoka County Sheriff Department
Beaver County Sheriff Department
The land where Beaver County is located has been under several jurisdictions. At one time, it was part of Mexico and then Texas before Texas became a state of the United States. Then in the Compromise of 1850, Texas ceded the land that would eventually become the Oklahoma panhandle to the United States government. The area was known as "No Man's Land" because it belonged to no state or territorial government. There was a period of time (1886 - 1890) during which it was a separate organized territory, known as Cimarron Territory. After becoming part of the Oklahoma Territory in 1890, Beaver County (first called Seventh County) covered the entire Oklahoma Panhandle.[5] At statehood in 1907, Cimarron County was taken from the western one-third, while Texas County was taken from the middle, leaving Beaver County only in the east.
Turner, Kenneth R."No Man's Land," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, 2009. Accessed March 28, 2015.
Hodges, V. Pauline. "Beaver County," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, 2009. Accessed March 28, 2015.
Beckham County Sheriff Department
J. M. "Jack" Denby Jr. served with the Beckham County Sheriff Department in the 1950s under Sheriff Schooler in 1951 and Sheriff Hay in 1956.
J. M. "Jack" Denby Jr. served as the Assistant Director of the Beckham County Civil Defense in 1963.
Blaine County Sheriff Department
Badge worn in the 1990s and 2000s.
Public execution of Alf Hunter in Blaine County.
On Friday, June 5, 1908, Sheriff Garrison and two of his deputies, Tod Warden and M.L. Sanders, had gone to Watonga by train. They were met by Blaine County Sheriff G.A. McArthur and his deputy, M.B. Skien. From Watonga, the five lawmen traveled by buggy to Hitchcock, then about three miles east to the Dobbs place in search of Alf Hunter, alis James Kingsbury, who was wanted for murder in Oklahoma County. The lawmen soon located Hunter and became involved in a running gun battle with him in a hayfield. Sheriff Garrison was shot in the left side of the neck, severing jugular vein and died almost instantaneously. Deputy Sanders and Alf Hunter were also wounded but Hunter escaped. Deputy Sanders survived his wound. Hunter was apprehended in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in October of 1909, returned to Watonga for trial, found guilty of the murder of Sheriff Garrison and hanged on April 8, 1910. Alf Hunter was the only person ever legally hanged in Blaine County.
Blaine County Sheriff George McArthur
Bryan County Sheriff Department
Robert L. Harris
Caddo County Sheriff Department
F. V. Ty Yount served as Undersheriff in 1940 and was later served as Sheriff from 1945-1949.
Worn in the 2000s.
Original Obituary for Sheriff Frank Smith
American-Democrat Anadarko, Oklahoma November 16, 1921
Canadian County Sheriff Department
1930 Campaign
Carter County Sheriff Department
John T. Spears served with the Carter County Sheriff Department in the 1930s and 1940s.
1935 Undersheriff John T. Spears, top row, second from the left.
Cherokee County Sheriff Department
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Choctaw County Sheriff Department
Cimarron County Sheriff Department
Cleveland County Sheriff Department
Served as Deputy Sheriff in the 1940s
Used in the 2000s.
Former Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper from 5th Class in 1941. Pictured top left in 1968.
