AMERICUS CITY MARSHALS
Alan Anderson, Compiler

William Douglass McKay                              1856-57

Green Moore Wheeler                                 1858-59

Francis Marion "Coot" Pilcher                       1860-61

Green Moore Wheeler                                 1862-63

Stephen Henry Mitchell                              1864-71

Capt. Wesley Newell Freeman                         1871-72

Julius C. Hogue                                      1873

William W. Stovall                                  1874-77

John Isaac Hudson                                    1878

Wilks Wilburn Wheeler                                1878

Asbury Pinkston Lingo                               1879-91

John Basil Lamar (1)                                1891-95

William Henry Feagin (2)                           1895-1908

William D. Smith                                    1908-13

George Oscar Loving                                  1914

Walter Tared Maynard                                1915-18

Claude B. Pouncey                                   1918-33

John Harmon Shumake                                 1933-44

Zera Alphonso Littlejohn, Jr.                       1944-61

Willie Frank Halstead                               1961-64

Herbert Clay Mason                                  1965-84

Roy Smith Tallent (3)                               1986-91

Waymon Jerome Smith                                 1992-

 *  Henry Welday was appointed first town marshal in 1855 before
    Americus was incorporated as a city in 1856
(1) died in office, a suicide 
(2) W.H. Feagin did double duty as both police chief and marshal 
    from 1903-08 
(3) there was no marshal for over a year before R.S. Tallent