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Martin County Sheriff's Department staff, 1972
Two men looking at a document. Left to right: Ray Heisley and Bob Crowder. Ray Heisley joined the Martin County Sheriff's Office in 1956 and worked under three different Florida sheriffs over 31 years with the department. Robert Crowder was sheriff in 1972 and again between 1992-2012. -
Martin County Sheriff's Department staff, 1972
Two men looking at a document. Left to right: Ray Heisley and Bob Crowder.
Ray Heisley joined the Martin County Sheriff's Office in 1956 and worked under three different Florida sheriffs over 31 years with the department. -
Martin County Sheriff's Department staff, 1972
Three men looking at a document. Left to right: Melvin Waldron, Bob Kenney, Bob Crowder. -
Martin County Sheriff's Department staff, 1972
Five men (four in uniform) looking at a document. Left to right: Joe Yurillo, Melvin Waldron, Bob Kenney, Hal Enders, Bob Crowder. -
Sheriff Bob Crowder at desk, 1972
Bob Crowder holding a pen and a telephone.
Robert Lewis Crowder (b. 1945) moved to Jensen Beach in 1956 with his family. He graduated from Martin County High School in 1963 and then began working at the Sheriff's Department as dispatcher and later jailer, while earning a degree from IRSC. Working at the Stuart Police Department, he worked his way up from patrolman to detective by 1971. From May 1972 to 1 January 1973, Crowder served as sheriff when Sheriff Baker was suspended by the governor. He was unsuccessful in his bid for sheriff in the 1972 election (winner James Holt served for the next 20 years) and then worked as chief of security, salesman, then chief of detectives in the Martin County Sheriff's office, and then undersheriff in St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office. Crowder was elected sheriff of Martin County in 1993 and served until 2012, when he ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Representative.