* 1923 – James Dickey, American poet and author ( d. 1997 )

A darker image of the hillbilly is found in the film Deliverance ( 1972 ), based on a novel by James Dickey, which depicted the hillbilly as genetically deficient and murderous.

Directed by John Boorman, from a script that poet James Dickey had helped to adapt from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a canoe trip gone awry in a feral, backwoods America.

* January 19 – James Dickey, American poet and novelist ( b. 1923 )

** James Dickey, American poet and author ( Deliverance ) ( d. 1997 )

The film is based on a 1970 novel of the same name by American author James Dickey, who has a small role in the film as the Sheriff.

During the filming of the canoe scene, James Dickey engaged in a bitter argument with Boorman.

James Dickey's son, Christopher Dickey, in his book, Summer of Deliverance, said that it was one of the crewmen who suggested that Ned Beatty's character, Bobby, " squeal like a pig " — to add some backwoods horror to the scene and to make it more shocking.

* Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – James Dickey

James Dickey & The Making of Deliverance

* The school board ordered books considered obscene including Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Deliverance by James Dickey assigned to the sophomore English class be confiscated and burned in 1973.

James Lafayette Dickey ( February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997 ) was an American poet and novelist.

James Dickey was born to lawyer Eugene Dickey and Maibelle Swift in Atlanta, Georgia where he attended North Fulton High School in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood.

James Dickey died on January 19, 1997, six days after his last class at the University of South Carolina, where from 1968 he taught as poet-in-residence.

* The Achievement of James Dickey: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems ( 1968 )

* James Dickey bibliography

* James Dickey Newsletter & Society

* The James Dickey Page

* CNN Audio Clips with James Dickey

* The James Dickey Library at the University of South Carolina

* The James Dickey Papers at Washington University in St. Louis

* Clark Powell Harbinger Column, " James Dickey: A Personal Memory "

* David Martin, " To My Cousin on James Dickey "

When James Best briefly boycotted the show during the mid-second season, he was temporarily replaced several " one off " Sheriffs, the longest standing being Sheriff Grady Bird, played by Dick Sargent, who appeared in two episodes (" Jude Emery " and " Officer Daisy Duke ").

Sheriff James R. Voutour ( D )

Sheriff James A. Bowen is the dean of NYS Sheriffs, having served as Sheriff since 1972, when he was appointed by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller.

The first Sheriff of Manila was James Peterson.

Other elected officials are Sheriff Mike White, Circuit Clerk Brenda Jackson, County Clerk Eleanor Straight, Assessor Joe Alongi and Prosecutor Attorney James Davis.

Legendary lawman and later Texas Rangers Hall of Fame member James B. Gillett served as Sheriff of Brewster County, operated a ranch in Alpine in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

* September 10, 1897: Sheriff James Martin formed a posse and fired on a group of unarmed miners in what is known today as the Lattimer massacre.

Gloucester County's County Clerk is James N. Hogan, the County Surrogate is Helene M. Reed and the County Sheriff is Carmel Molina.

* Sheriff: James McBride

* Sheriff: James A. Crawford

* Sheriff: James Bosscher

* James Best ( Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane of the Dukes of Hazzard ) was born in Powderly.

* James Best, actor, played Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the Dukes of Hazzard television series, also a character actor on " Gunsmoke "

* James Best, American character actor best known as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in The Dukes of Hazzard

In 1603 he was knighted by King James I, in 1620 he acted as High Sheriff of Oxfordshire where he owned some property, and soon afterwards he married Margaret, daughter of Sir George Mainwaring, of Ightfield, Shropshire.

* James R. Barton, early Sheriff of Los Angeles County

In 1969, he also co-starred with James Garner and Walter Brennan in the classic film Support Your Local Sheriff!

With this evolution of the character came the closer pairing of Hogg and bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane ( James Best ), and as the pairs comical ability became apparent and a popular element of the series, Booke and Best were often given permission to ad-lib their scenes together.

In October 1896 Lieutenant James Robert Phillips ( RN ) Phillips was not a Lieutenant, he was a lawyer ; after completing articles he was Sheriff and Overseer of Prisons in the Gold Coast and later Acting Queen's Advocate there, before his appointment as Acting Consul-Generalin the Protectorate-see Home, cited below already, at page 30 the Acting Consul-General visited the Benin River District and had meetings with the agents and traders.

After Ross and the county's coroner Milton Briggs ( James Handy ) perform an autopsy on the victims and confirm Ross ' suspicion that the deaths were caused by spider bites, he, along with Dr. Atherton, his assistant Chris Collins ( Brian McNamara ), Briggs, Sheriff Lloyd Parsons ( Stuart Pankin ) and exterminator Delbert McClintock ( John Goodman ) investigate and eventually discover that the killer spiders are descendants of the new species James discovered earlier and, due to being born a mixed breed, have a short life expectancy.

Nimrod, Charles James Apperley, a neighbour, fellow hunting devotee, close friend and peer felt compelled to record the life of Mad Jack in ' The Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esquire, of Halston, Shropshire, formerly MP for Shrewsbury, High Sheriff for the Counties of Salop & Merioneth ( 1821 ), Major of the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry ; with Notices of his Hunting, Shooting & Driving '.