List of sheriffs of Monmouth County, New Jersey
State of New Jersey (1776-1946)
The sheriffs were:

List of sheriffs of Monmouth County, New Jersey

Section Title: State of New Jersey (1776-1946)
Table Section Text: The sheriffs were:

Order	Term	Sheriff	Notes

01	1776	Nicholas Van Brunt	First Sheriff of Monmouth County after independence.

02	1779	David Forman

03	1782-1784	John Burrowes Jr.

04	1785	David Ehea

05	1788-89	Daniel Hendrickson

06	1790	Elisha Walton

07	1793	William Lloyd

08	1796	James Lloyd

09	1799	Samuel P. Formam

10	1802	Elisha Walton

11	1805	James Lloyd

12	1808	David Craig

13	1811	Lewis Gordon

14	1814	Charles Parker

15	1817	John J. Ely	(April 7, 1778-January 11, 1852) This was his first term. He served as the Director of the Monmouth County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders and as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly.

16	1820	James Lloyd

17	1823	Richard Lloyd

18	1825	John J. Ely	This was his second term.

19	1828	Daniel Holmes

20	1831	John M. Perrine

21	1834	Thomas Miller

22	1837	Horatio Ely

23	1838	Abraham G. Neafie

24	1841	Charles Allen

25	1844	Holmes Conover

26	1847	Samuel Conover

27	1850	John C. Cox

28	1853	Holmes Conover

29	1856	Samuel Conover

30	1859	Joseph I. Thompson

31	1862	Jordan Woolley	His son was the Mayor of Long Branch, New Jersey.

32	1865	William B. Sutphin

33	1868	John H. Patterson

34	1871	Samuel T. Hendrickson

35	1874	George W. Brown

36	1878	Charles Allen

37	1881	John L. Thompson

38	1884	Theodore Aumack

39	1887	Theodore Fields	He served from 1887 to 1890. He was born near Eatonown and educated at Ocean Hill Institute in Long Branch.

40	1891	Ruliff P. Smock	This is his first term.

41	1893	Matthias Woolley	He served from 1893 to 1895. Matthias Woolley was the first Republican Sheriff of Monmouth County.

42	1896	Houston Fields	He served from 1896 to 1899. Fields was born on October 23, 1861 near Eatontown, New Jersey.

43	1899	Ruliff P. Smock	This is his second term.

44	1899	Obadiah E. Davis	This was his first term.

44	1899	Obadiah C. Bogardus	He was a dentist in Keyport, New Jersey. He was elected sheriff of Monmouth County in 1902 and Mayor of Keyport, New Jersey from 1917 to 1920 and again in 1935.

1902 to 1905	Obadiah E.Davis	This was his second term.

1905	Charles Asa Francis

1905	Charles E. Close

1908	Clarence E. F. Hetrick

1911	Wilbert A. Beecroft

1914	Cornelius B. Barkalow	This was his first term.

1917	Elmer Hendrickson Geran	Member of the Democratic Party. He was born on October 24, 1875, he represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1923 to 1925.

1918	Cornelius B. Barkalow	This was his second term.

1920	Elmer Hendrickson Geran

1920	Walter H. Gravatt

1920	John H. Van Mater

1921 to 1925

1926	Narry N. Johnson

1929	William R. O’Brien

1932	Howard Height

1935	George H. Robert

1938	Morris J. Woodring

1941	John T. Lawley

1941–1944	Morris J. Woodring

Sentence(s)

Houston Fields was one of a sheriff of Monmouth County.

final_sentence: Houston Fields was one of a sheriff of Monmouth County.