Years of Service
1939-44
Lon Jordan was a popular three term sheriff in Maricopa County, who sponsored the first FBI training school in the valley. He established a two-way radio hookup to the Highway Patrol’s station KNGG; initiated the Maricopa Mounted Posse; and formed a 12 man, 12 plane Sheriff’s Air Patrol for civil defense. He died of leukemia at age 50.