Georgia’s and the nation’s longest-serving sheriff says he won’t run for reelection next year, ending more than 50 years as Houston County’s chief lawman.
91-year-old Cullen Talton was first elected in 1972 after careers as a dairy farmer and a county commissioner. The population of Houston County was 63,000 when he was first elected. It’s 170,000 today.
County commissioners there honored Talton in a ceremony Tuesday with two of his great-grandchildren among those in attendance. Talton says he still enjoys the job but it’s time to hang it up.
