Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia Chiefs

This is a list of police chiefs in the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.

• Cathy L. Lanier Jan. 2007 -
• Charles H. Ramsey April 1998 - Dec. 2006
• Sonya Proctor (Interim) Nov. 1997 - April 1998
• Larry Soulsby July 1995 - Nov. 1997
• Fred Thomas (police) Dec. 1992 - July 1995
• Isaac Fulwood July 1989 - Sept. 1992
• Maurice T. Turner, Jr. July 1981 - July 1989
• Burtell M. Jefferson Jan. 1978 - June 1981
• Maurice J. Cullinane Dec. 1974 - Jan. 1978
• Jerry V. Wilson Aug. 1969 - Sept. 1974
• John B. Layton Dec. 1964 - July 1969
• Robert V. Murray Dec. 1951 - Dec. 1964
• Robert J. Barrett July 1947 - Nov. 1951
• Harvey G. Callahan Feb. 1941 - June 1947
• Edward J. Kelly (police) Nov. 1941 - Feb. 1946
• Ernest W. Brown (police) Oct. 1932 - Nov. 1941
• Pelham D. Glassford Nov. 1931 - Oct. 1932
• Henry G. Pratt April 1929 - Nov. 1931
• Edwin B. Hess Oct. 1925 - April 1929
• Daniel Sullivan (police) Feb. 1922 - Oct. 1925
• Harry L. Gessford April 1920 - Dec. 1921
• Raymond W. Pullman April 1915 - Feb. 1920
• Richard H. Sylvester^[1] July 1898 - April 1915
• William C. Moore Dec. 1886 - July 1898
• Samuel H. Walker (police) July 1886 - Dec. 1886
• William McEntyre Dye^[2] April 1883 - June 1886
• William G. Brock Dec. 1879 - April 1883
• Thomas P. Morgan Feb. 1878 - Nov. 1879
• A. C. Richards Dec. 1864 - Jan. 1878
• William Benning Webb Sept. 1861 - Nov. 1864

References

1. ^ "Major Sylvester, Criminals' Foe, Dies. Served as Head of the Police Department at Washington for Seventeen Years. Organized World Body. Long in Charge of du Pont Company's Police Forces. Began Career as Journalist.". New York Times. December 12, 1930. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F1081FF6345C11738DDDAB0994DA415B808FF1D3. Retrieved 2009-07-27. "Major Richard Sylvester, who for seventeen years was superintendent of the Washington police and for the last fifteen years head of the protection division of E.I. du Pont de Nemours Co.'s plants, retiring only a few weeks ago, died here this afternoon in his suite at the du Pont Biltmore Hotel. He was 71 years old." 
2. ^ "William McEntyre Dye". Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. http://books.google.com/books?id=o6coAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA284&dq=%22Dye,+William+McEntyre%22&client=firefox-a. Retrieved 2009-07-29. "Dye, William McEntyre, soldier, born in Washington, Pennsylvania, 26 January 1831. He was appointed to the U. S. military academy, where he was graduated in 1853, served in the 8th infantry on frontier and garrison duty, was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1856, and captain, 14 May 1861. After being employed on mustering and recruiting service he became colonel of the 20th Iowa regiment, 25 August 1862, served in Missouri and Arkansas in 1862'3, receiving the brevet of major for gallantry at Vicksburg, and led a brigade in the Red River campaign of 1864, for which he was brevetted lieutenant colonel on 28 May. He commanded a brigade at Mobile bay in September and, after taking part in several expeditions, was acting assistant provost marshal general of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Dakota in 1865."