LOCAL · TN · 1956-1971
Claude A. Armour
Police Chief · Memphis · Tennessee
On the record
Public Safety Comm; sanitation strike + MLK assassination Apr 1968
Background
Claude A. Armour (—) was Tennessee's Police Chief · Memphis of Memphis 1956–1971 (15 years). Earliest occupant of this seat in Officium's records; succeeded by E. Winslow Chapman. Note: Public Safety Comm; sanitation strike + MLK assassination Apr 1968. Same-year political environment (1956): Governor Frank G. Clement.
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Others who held this office in Tennessee
- Melvin Burgess (1991-1994)
- John D. Holt (1983-1991)
- E. Winslow Chapman (1976-1983)