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Archive Home > 2011 > December > 11 > Longtime Jefferson County lawman dies at 88

Longtime Jefferson County lawman dies at 88

By Scott Hammers / The Bulletin
December 11, 2011

A longtime Jefferson County sheriff and rancher Hamlin Preston Perkins died Saturday. He was 88.

Former Jefferson County commissioner and Madras mayor Rick Allen recalled the man best known as “Ham” as a throwback to an earlier time.

“Ham was sort of that old-school sheriff that people see on TV....

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