Stratton, Don
unknown – unknown
- Name variants
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- Record count
- 1
- Sources
- life_events
- Places seen
- Sedalia, Missouri
- First event date
- 1977-08-16
- Last event date
- 1977-08-16
Timeline — 1 event
- 1977-08-16 Pettis County voters elected sheriff's deputy Don Stratton, a Democrat, as sheriff in a four-candidate race on Tuesday (Aug. 16, 1977) by an overwhelming majority: of 7,797 votes cast, Stratton received 4,356, Republican John 'Bud' Brown 2,060, independent Jack Louis 1,305, and independent Albert McAllister 76. Stratton, 42, had served 19 years under fellow Democrat Emmett Fairfax, who resigned in July to become U.S. marshal for western Missouri.
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