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A native of Stafford County, Kansas, Logan Sanford
attended the University of Kansas while serving as a patrolman for the
Lawrence Police Department. A long-running tenure as sheriff of
Stafford County was interrupted by U.S. Army service in World War II.
Sheriff Sanford had personally worked with KBI Director Lou Richter
and other KBI agents on the famous Macksville bank robbery case in
1941 and was hired by Director Richter as a KBI special agent in 1948,
while sheriff of Stafford County. President of the Kansas Peace
Officers’ Association in 1964 and a graduate of the FBI National
Academy, Logan Sanford was appointed director by Attorney General John
Anderson, Jr., in 1956, upon the death of Director Richter. Director
Sanford retired in 1969, having served Attorneys General Anderson,
William Ferguson, Robert Londerholm and Kent Frizzell. He presided
over the KBI during its most famous case, the Clutter family murders,
at Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959. Director Sanford died December 12, 1995,
at Stafford, Kansas. |
