Alva Lee (Fudge) Armstrong was born January 22, 1889, near Sulphur, Crawford County, Indiana. He is the son of John & Martha Jones Armstrong. His mother later became Martha Satterfield.
Alva Lee was known by most in Crawford County as Fudge Armstrong, he married Alma Goldman on May 2, 1912 in Crawford County, Indiana. They had one child, Alma Lee Armstrong who married Gordon Hanger, who was a well known and respected businessman in English who owned and operated Hanger's John Deer Equipment. Hanger was also a long time member of the Crawford County Sheriff's Department's Merit Board.
Fudge Armstrong a Democrat first ran for sheriff in 1930 he easily won his party's nomination but was defeated in the general election November 3, 1930, losing by 4 votes 2,491 to 2,495. Two years later he was again nominated by his party for sheriff and in the November 8, 1932 general election he easily won the sheriff's race by 899 votes, getting 3,110 to 2,211.
In 1934 Fudge Armstrong ran for a second term as sheriff and his opponent was the same one that he lost to by 4 votes in 1930, this time he won by a landslide 1,142 getting 3,251 to 2,109 votes.
Fudge Armstrong ran for sheriff in 1940 and won by 69 votes, 2,721 to 2,652, he ran for reelection in 1942 but was defeated losing by 203 votes, 2,125 to 2,356, against the same opponent he defeated in the 1940 election, the Republicans had swept into all county offices that year.
In 1944 Fudge Armstrong ran for sheriff in a rematch with the same opponent he faced in 1940 and 1942 but he was defeated by 487 votes, getting 2,143 to 2,630, that was the end of his political career.
Having been nominated for sheriff six times, and elected three times, he served as Sheriff of Crawford County for six years.
In Whitey Jones book on Crawford County, he described Sheriff Fudge Armstrong saying that no other sheriff ever had a better knowledge of the territory he was elected to protect nor a better understanding of how the minds of the most petty thieves and bootleggers he was called on to bring in worked, under the watchful eye of a network of law-abiding informers, a criminal who had been out of the county to evade arrest could hardly come back one night unless the sheriff knew it. In no time at all, Sheriff Armstrong would have his gun barrel poked up the culprit's nose and with little further ado, would have him safely within the confines of the constabulary at English.
Sheriff Armstrong's staff over the six years he served included his wife, Alma as jail matron, Claude D. Roberts, and two future to be sheriff's Russell "John Ike" Jones and Owen S. Johnson as his deputies.
Alva (Fudge) Armstrong died on August 15, 1969, at the Methodist Evangelical Hospital in Louisville, Ky., where he had been taken after suffering a stroke, he was 80 years old.
Alva Lee was known by most in Crawford County as Fudge Armstrong, he married Alma Goldman on May 2, 1912 in Crawford County, Indiana. They had one child, Alma Lee Armstrong who married Gordon Hanger, who was a well known and respected businessman in English who owned and operated Hanger's John Deer Equipment. Hanger was also a long time member of the Crawford County Sheriff's Department's Merit Board.
Fudge Armstrong a Democrat first ran for sheriff in 1930 he easily won his party's nomination but was defeated in the general election November 3, 1930, losing by 4 votes 2,491 to 2,495. Two years later he was again nominated by his party for sheriff and in the November 8, 1932 general election he easily won the sheriff's race by 899 votes, getting 3,110 to 2,211.
In 1934 Fudge Armstrong ran for a second term as sheriff and his opponent was the same one that he lost to by 4 votes in 1930, this time he won by a landslide 1,142 getting 3,251 to 2,109 votes.
Fudge Armstrong ran for sheriff in 1940 and won by 69 votes, 2,721 to 2,652, he ran for reelection in 1942 but was defeated losing by 203 votes, 2,125 to 2,356, against the same opponent he defeated in the 1940 election, the Republicans had swept into all county offices that year.
In 1944 Fudge Armstrong ran for sheriff in a rematch with the same opponent he faced in 1940 and 1942 but he was defeated by 487 votes, getting 2,143 to 2,630, that was the end of his political career.
Having been nominated for sheriff six times, and elected three times, he served as Sheriff of Crawford County for six years.
In Whitey Jones book on Crawford County, he described Sheriff Fudge Armstrong saying that no other sheriff ever had a better knowledge of the territory he was elected to protect nor a better understanding of how the minds of the most petty thieves and bootleggers he was called on to bring in worked, under the watchful eye of a network of law-abiding informers, a criminal who had been out of the county to evade arrest could hardly come back one night unless the sheriff knew it. In no time at all, Sheriff Armstrong would have his gun barrel poked up the culprit's nose and with little further ado, would have him safely within the confines of the constabulary at English.
Sheriff Armstrong's staff over the six years he served included his wife, Alma as jail matron, Claude D. Roberts, and two future to be sheriff's Russell "John Ike" Jones and Owen S. Johnson as his deputies.
Alva (Fudge) Armstrong died on August 15, 1969, at the Methodist Evangelical Hospital in Louisville, Ky., where he had been taken after suffering a stroke, he was 80 years old.
Alva Lee (Fudge) Armstrong was born January 22, 1889, near Sulphur, Crawford County, Indiana. He is the son of John & Martha Jones Armstrong. His mother later became Martha Satterfield.
Alva Lee was known by most in Crawford County as Fudge Armstrong, he married Alma Goldman on May 2, 1912 in Crawford County, Indiana. They had one child, Alma Lee Armstrong who married Gordon Hanger, who was a well known and respected businessman in English who owned and operated Hanger's John Deer Equipment. Hanger was also a long time member of the Crawford County Sheriff's Department's Merit Board.
Fudge Armstrong a Democrat first ran for sheriff in 1930 he easily won his party's nomination but was defeated in the general election November 3, 1930, losing by 4 votes 2,491 to 2,495. Two years later he was again nominated by his party for sheriff and in the November 8, 1932 general election he easily won the sheriff's race by 899 votes, getting 3,110 to 2,211.
In 1934 Fudge Armstrong ran for a second term as sheriff and his opponent was the same one that he lost to by 4 votes in 1930, this time he won by a landslide 1,142 getting 3,251 to 2,109 votes.
Fudge Armstrong ran for sheriff in 1940 and won by 69 votes, 2,721 to 2,652, he ran for reelection in 1942 but was defeated losing by 203 votes, 2,125 to 2,356, against the same opponent he defeated in the 1940 election, the Republicans had swept into all county offices that year.
In 1944 Fudge Armstrong ran for sheriff in a rematch with the same opponent he faced in 1940 and 1942 but he was defeated by 487 votes, getting 2,143 to 2,630, that was the end of his political career.
Having been nominated for sheriff six times, and elected three times, he served as Sheriff of Crawford County for six years.
In Whitey Jones book on Crawford County, he described Sheriff Fudge Armstrong saying that no other sheriff ever had a better knowledge of the territory he was elected to protect nor a better understanding of how the minds of the most petty thieves and bootleggers he was called on to bring in worked, under the watchful eye of a network of law-abiding informers, a criminal who had been out of the county to evade arrest could hardly come back one night unless the sheriff knew it. In no time at all, Sheriff Armstrong would have his gun barrel poked up the culprit's nose and with little further ado, would have him safely within the confines of the constabulary at English.
Sheriff Armstrong's staff over the six years he served included his wife, Alma as jail matron, Claude D. Roberts, and two future to be sheriff's Russell "John Ike" Jones and Owen S. Johnson as his deputies.
Alva (Fudge) Armstrong died on August 15, 1969, at the Methodist Evangelical Hospital in Louisville, Ky., where he had been taken after suffering a stroke, he was 80 years old.
Alva Lee was known by most in Crawford County as Fudge Armstrong, he married Alma Goldman on May 2, 1912 in Crawford County, Indiana. They had one child, Alma Lee Armstrong who married Gordon Hanger, who was a well known and respected businessman in English who owned and operated Hanger's John Deer Equipment. Hanger was also a long time member of the Crawford County Sheriff's Department's Merit Board.
Fudge Armstrong a Democrat first ran for sheriff in 1930 he easily won his party's nomination but was defeated in the general election November 3, 1930, losing by 4 votes 2,491 to 2,495. Two years later he was again nominated by his party for sheriff and in the November 8, 1932 general election he easily won the sheriff's race by 899 votes, getting 3,110 to 2,211.
In 1934 Fudge Armstrong ran for a second term as sheriff and his opponent was the same one that he lost to by 4 votes in 1930, this time he won by a landslide 1,142 getting 3,251 to 2,109 votes.
Fudge Armstrong ran for sheriff in 1940 and won by 69 votes, 2,721 to 2,652, he ran for reelection in 1942 but was defeated losing by 203 votes, 2,125 to 2,356, against the same opponent he defeated in the 1940 election, the Republicans had swept into all county offices that year.
In 1944 Fudge Armstrong ran for sheriff in a rematch with the same opponent he faced in 1940 and 1942 but he was defeated by 487 votes, getting 2,143 to 2,630, that was the end of his political career.
Having been nominated for sheriff six times, and elected three times, he served as Sheriff of Crawford County for six years.
In Whitey Jones book on Crawford County, he described Sheriff Fudge Armstrong saying that no other sheriff ever had a better knowledge of the territory he was elected to protect nor a better understanding of how the minds of the most petty thieves and bootleggers he was called on to bring in worked, under the watchful eye of a network of law-abiding informers, a criminal who had been out of the county to evade arrest could hardly come back one night unless the sheriff knew it. In no time at all, Sheriff Armstrong would have his gun barrel poked up the culprit's nose and with little further ado, would have him safely within the confines of the constabulary at English.
Sheriff Armstrong's staff over the six years he served included his wife, Alma as jail matron, Claude D. Roberts, and two future to be sheriff's Russell "John Ike" Jones and Owen S. Johnson as his deputies.
Alva (Fudge) Armstrong died on August 15, 1969, at the Methodist Evangelical Hospital in Louisville, Ky., where he had been taken after suffering a stroke, he was 80 years old.
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