United States Marshals, District of Arizona
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Location: Arizona, United States of America
Surname/tag: Arizona
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The U.S. Marshal’s Office in Arizona Territory was established on February 24, 1863. President Abraham Lincoln appointed Milton B. Duffield as Arizona Marshal on March 10, 1863. Headquarters were opened in 1864 in Tucson. The office was moved to Phoenix in June 1901, with a permanent deputy’s office remaining in Tucson.
The Marshal held the primary duty of law enforcement in the territory. He was empowered to hire deputies as needed (with the approval of the Justice Department) and to form posses. After 1854, the marshal was empowered to summon the military as posse comitatus. Principal duties of the marshal’s office included the protection of public lands, assistance to Indians against encroachment by whites, suppression of domestic insurrections, and the enforcement of laws regulating land settlement, morals (from polygamy to prize fighting), labor relations and other aspects of territorial life.
When Arizona entered the Union in 1912, the Territorial Court was abolished and the U.S. Marshal for Arizona was assigned to the newly-created Federal District Court of Arizona (March 2, 1912).
U.S. Marshals Service District of Arizona official U.S. Government, U.S. Department of Justice website: https://www.usmarshals.gov/district/az/index.html
U.S. Marshals - District of Arizona
| U.S. Marshals - Territory of Arizona | Term |
|---|---|
| Milton B. Duffield | March 10, 1863 - January 4, 1866 |
| Dr Edward Phelps Jr, M.D. | June 18, 1866 - April 1871 (died in office) |
| Isaac Q. Dickason | April 15, 1871 - (disappeared from office) |
| George Tyng | January 30, 1874 - December 15, 1894 |
| Francis H. Goodwin | December 23, 1874 - August 1876 |
| Wiley W. Standefer | August 15, 1875 - August 1876 |
| Crawley P. Dake | June 12, 1878 - July 1882 |
| Zan L. Tidball | July 18, 1882 - 1885 |
| William Kidder Meade | July 8, 1885 - March 4, 1890 |
| Robert H. "Bob" Paul | March 4, 1890 - 1893 |
| William Kidder Meade | May 8, 1893 - June 15, 1897 |
| William M. Griffith | June 15, 1897 - June 6, 1901 |
| Myron Hawley McCord | June 6, 1901 - 1901 |
| Benjamin Franklin Daniels | 1901 - March 1902 |
| Myron Hawley McCord | March 18, 1902 - 1905 |
| Benjamin Franklin Daniels | June 1905 - 1909 |
| Charles A. Overlock | August 7, 1909 - February 14, 1912 (statehood) |
| U.S. Marshals - District of Arizona | Term |
|---|---|
| Charles A. Overlock | March 4, 1912 - |
| Joseph P. Dillon | 1915 |
| George A. Mauk | 1925 |
| Benjamin J. McKinney | |
| Archie M. “Jake” Meyer | |
| Roland S. Mosher | |
| J. Pat Madrid | |
| Howard T. Easley | |
| Lee A. Limbs, Jr. | |
| John W. Roberts | |
| Donald Tucker | |
| Alfred Madrid | |
| David Gonzales (official website: https://www.usmarshals.gov/district/az/general/marshal.htm) | April 2002 - 2022 |
sources:
- U.S. Marshal, District of Arizona papers, MS 0820, Arizona Historical Society - Tucson https://www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/upLoads/library_US-Marshal-Arizona.pdf
- USMS Collections: U.S. Marshals 1789 - 1989, Arizona https://www.usmarshals.gov/readingroom/us_marshals/arizona.pdf
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