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The Homestead, one of the oldest buildings in Haverstraw, New York, has been home to a state legislator and congressman, the county sheriff and the local school superintendent?
in the 1971 film Lawman, American actor Robert Ryan played the role of the sheriff under the name Cotton Ryan?
one of the first acts of the Second World War on the continent of North America was the seizure of the German cargo ship Christoph Van Doornum by the Sheriff of Botwood?
the flamboyant Louisiana Sheriff F.O. "Potch" Didier once spent seven days in his own jail upon conviction, after a sensational trial, of malfeasance in office?
Noah W. Cross, sheriff of Concordia Parish, Louisiana, from 1944–1973, was forced to resign upon a perjury conviction in U.S. District Court in Alexandria?
Jordan de Exeter, sheriff of Connacht, died fending off a Hebridean pirate raid in 1258?
Cyneweard of Laughern, last Anglo-Saxon sheriff of Worcestershire, lost his office to the Norman incomer Urse d'Abetot around 1069?
Don Chafin, the sheriff of Logan County, West Virginia, received bribes of at least $32,700 annually for preventing the unionization of coal miners?
Fred L. Schiele, who managed Edwin Edwards' Concordia Parish gubernatorial campaign in 1971–1972, was appointed by Edwards in 1973 as the parish sheriff to succeed the scandal-plagued Noah W. Cross?
Louisiana Sheriff Henderson Jordan sought to keep the death car of Bonnie and Clyde to compensate the officers who in 1934 risked their lives to capture the fugitives?

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Sheriff was the title of a law-enforcement official on Earth. The title had been in use since the Middle Ages on Earth.

The descendants of humans kidnapped from Earth by the Skagarans in 1864 also had law enforcement officials known as Sheriffs. MacReady was the Sheriff when the Enterprise encountered the settlement in 2153. (ENT episode: "North Star")

When subjecting the crew of the USS Enterprise to a recreation of Sherwood Forest, Q assumed the role of the High Sheriff of Nottingham. (TNG episode: "Qpid")

Later, Worf and his son Alexander participated in an Ancient West holodeck program. In this program, Worf took on the role of the Sheriff of Deadwood. (TNG episode: "A Fistful of Datas") Worf later came to acquire another Ancient West holodeck program in which he portrayed an Ancient West sheriff tracking stagecoach thieves through the New Mexico desert. (DS9 comic: "Unhappy Trails")

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Sheriff may refer to:

Sheriff Williams, flashback character
Isabel, referred to by Tom as "the sheriff"
Sawyer, who called himself "the new sheriff in town" ("The Long Con")

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