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 HISTORICAL SUMMARY
District Marshals

Status

Date

Joseph L. Meek

Appointed

August 14, 1848

J.W. Nesmith

Appointed

March 16, 1853

John McCracken Appointed

November 28, 1854

Walter Forward Appointed

November 18, 1858

Dolphes B. Hannah

Appointed

August 6, 1859

William H. Bennett

Appointed

April 10, 1862

Albert Zeiber

Appointed

March 1, 1867

Thomas G. Young Appointed April 8, 1869
Daniel J. Malarkey Appointed June 22, 1874
Abner W. Waters Appointed March 16, 1876
Edward S. Kearney Appointed March 3, 1880
Penumbra Kelly Appointed July 2, 1884
John Meyers Appointed November 30, 1887
Louis T. Barin Appointed February 12, 1890
Henry C. Grady Appointed June 13, 1893
Zoeth Houser Appointed October 28, 1897
Walter F. Matthews Appointed June 28, 1902
Charles J. Reed Appointed May 13, 1905
Elmer B. Colwell Appointed July 14, 1910
Leslie M. Scott Appointed August 22, 1911
John Montag Appointed July 29, 1913
George F. Alexander

Appointed

September 14, 1917

Clarence R. Hotchkiss Appointed August 24, 1921
John L. Day Appointed January 22, 1930
John T. Summerville Appointed February 3, 1934
Steve F. Hamm Appointed September 9, 1942
Frank B. Upshaw Court Appointed February 1, 1943
Jack B. Caufield Appointed October 28, 1943
Harold Sexton Appointed July 17, 1953
Paul Kearney Appointed August 23, 1958
Eugene C. Hulett Appointed December 20, 1963
Farley E. Morgan Appointed July 18, 1969
Everett R. Langford Appointed February 9, 1972
Wallace P. Bowen Appointed July 29, 1977
Kernan H. Bagley Appointed March 1, 1981
Reginald Madsen Appointed October 17, 1994
Dennis C. Merrill Appointed March 21, 2002
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