1917: A two page document drafted by the first Superintendent of the State Police, George Fletcher Chandler, explains the duties of a Trooper and the Code of Conduct.
1917: Governor Charles S. Whitman appointed Major George Fletcher Chandler on April 30, 1917, as the first Superintendent of the Department of State Police.
1917: The Wells-Mills Bill, which appropriated $500,000 to establish a Department of State Police, was passed by one vote in the Senate on March 20, 1917.
1913: Sam Howell, a construction foreman, was shot seven times by four different men who were attempting to take a payroll sack which Howell was delivering to his construction staff.