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On January 11, 1794, Robert Forsyth, U.S. Marshal for the District of Georgia, was shot and killed while attempting to serve civil papers. He was the first law enforcement officer in the United States of America to be killed in the line of duty.
Since then, over 200 federal Marshals, Deputy Marshals, Special Deputy Marshals and Marshals guards have given their lives in service to their nation. We honor their memory and their sacrifice.
Updated August 13, 2008
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NAME |
TITLE |
DATE OF DEATH |
Robert Forsyth
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U.S. Marshal |
January 11, 1794 |
James Batchelder |
Deputy Marshal |
May 26, 1854 |
William H. Richardson |
U.S. Marshal |
November 17, 1855 |
Leonard Armes |
Deputy Marshal |
April 20, 1860 |
George Leihy |
Deputy Marshal |
November 18, 1866 |
Theodore W. Moses |
Deputy Marshal |
December 6, 1869 |
Thomas Foley |
Deputy U.S. Marshal |
April 27, 1870 |
William P. Storey |
Deputy Marshal |
May 2, 1870 |
Ellis T. Jenkins |
Deputy Marshal |
February 15, 1871 |
W. T. Bentz |
Deputy Marshal |
February 22, 1872 |
Black Sut Beck |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
April 15, 1872 |
Sam Beck |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
April 15, 1872 |
William Hicks |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
April 15, 1872 |
George Selridge |
Posse |
April 15, 1872 |
Jim Ward |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
April 15, 1872 |
Riley Woods |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
April 15, 1872 |
William Beck |
Posse |
April 16, 1872 |
Jacob G. Owens |
Deputy Marshal |
April 16, 1872 |
Maddison F. Mitchell |
Deputy Marshal |
June 18, 1872 |
Frank Griffin |
Deputy Marshal |
October 6, 1872 |
Andy Frigate |
Deputy Marshal |
January 1, 1873 |
John C. Stephenson |
Deputy Marshal |
July 11, 1873 |
R. T. Dunn |
Deputy Marshal |
August 8, 1873 |
John P. Fries |
Deputy Marshal |
October 25, 1873 |
Perry Duval |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
November 2, 1873 |
James P. Everette |
Deputy Marshal |
July 10, 1874 |
William Spivey |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
August 6, 1874 |
Horace Metcalf |
Deputy Marshal |
August 22, 1874 |
Albert Gibson |
Deputy Marshal |
January 26, 1877 |
Augustine McIntyre |
Deputy Marshal |
February 10, 1877 |
Van Buren Hendrix |
Deputy Marshal |
February 12, 1877 |
M. R. Greene |
Deputy Marshal |
May 12, 1877 |
George Ellis |
Deputy Marshal |
December 10, 1877 |
William Brady |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
April 1, 1878 |
George Hindman |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
April 1, 1878 |
Rufus Springs |
Deputy Marshal |
April 19, 1878 |
Harry T. McCarty |
Deputy Marshal |
July 13, 1878 |
J. H. Adams |
Deputy Marshal |
September 2, 1878 |
Cornelius Finley |
Deputy Marshal |
September 2, 1878 |
Jack Kimbrew |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
September 11, 1878 |
William H. Anderson |
Deputy Marshal |
November 8, 1878 |
Willard Ayers |
Deputy Marshal |
August 11, 1880 |
John B. Hardie |
Deputy Marshal |
December 8, 1880 |
Henry Seagraves |
Deputy Marshal |
April 8, 1881 |
Robert Olinger |
Deputy Marshal |
April 28, 1881 |
Thomas Young |
Deputy Marshal |
August 25, 1882 |
Dave H. Layman |
Deputy Marshal |
April 10, 1883 |
John McWeir |
Deputy Marshal |
July 2, 1883 |
John Collins |
Deputy Marshal |
August 10, 1883 |
Addison Beck |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
September 27, 1883 |
Lewis Merritt |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
September 27, 1883 |
William Leech |
Guard |
April 10, 1884 |
L. J. McDonald |
Deputy Marshal |
July 12, 1884 |
Bud Pusley |
Deputy Marshal |
November 9, 1884 |
Harold L. Gosling |
U.S. Marshal |
February 21, 1885 |
Jim Guy |
Deputy Marshal |
May 1, 1885 |
Bill Kirksey |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
May 1, 1885 |
Andy Roff |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
May 1, 1885 |
James Roff |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
May 1, 1885 |
William Lee Miller |
Deputy Marshal |
July 6, 1885 |
Miller Hurst |
Deputy Marshal |
October 11, 1885 |
Tom C. Hall |
Deputy Marshal |
March 18, 1886 |
J. E. Richardson |
Deputy Marshal |
March 29, 1886 |
Dick Townsend |
Deputy Marshal |
April 3, 1886 |
Henry Miller |
Guard |
April 9, 1886 |
William Irwin |
Deputy Marshal |
April 13, 1886 |
Sam Sixkiller |
Deputy Marshal |
December 24, 1886 |
William Kelly |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
January 17, 1887 |
Mark Kuykendall |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
January 17, 1887 |
Henry Smith |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
January 17, 1887 |
William Fields |
Deputy Marshal |
April 10, 1887 |
Dan Maples |
Deputy Marshal |
May 4, 1887 |
John Carleton |
Deputy Marshal |
November 5, 1887 |
Frank Dalton |
Deputy Marshal |
November 27, 1887 |
E. A. Stokley |
Deputy Marshal |
December 3, 1887 |
John Trammel |
Deputy Marshal |
June 26, 1888 |
John Phillips |
Deputy Marshal |
June 30, 1888 |
William Whitson |
Deputy Marshal |
June 30, 1888 |
Mose McIntosh |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
November 9, 1888 |
Thomas Goodson |
Deputy Marshal |
December 1, 1888 |
Z. W. Moody |
Deputy Marshal |
March 15, 1889 |
Russell Wireman |
Deputy Marshal |
March 26, 1889 |
Jim Williams |
Deputy Marshal |
June 5, 1889 |
Joe Lundy |
Deputy Marshal |
June 10, 1889 |
James O. Hager |
Deputy Marshal |
August 10, 1889 |
W. B. Saunders |
Deputy Marshal |
February 13, 1890 |
Robert Cox |
Deputy Marshal |
April 14, 1890 |
Charles H. Fusselman |
Deputy Marshal |
April 17, 1890 |
Jim Billy |
Deputy Marshal |
July 13, 1890 |
David Sigemore |
Deputy Marshal |
July 31, 1890 |
Samuel L. L'Estrange |
Deputy Marshal |
November 21, 1890 |
William Pitts |
Deputy Marshal |
November 30, 1890 |
Marion Prickett |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
December 15, 1890 |
Stephen Pensoneau |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
February 6, 1891 |
J.C. Arnold |
Guard |
February 26, 1891 |
J. Locke Ezzell |
Deputy Marshal |
April 8, 1891 |
Bernard Connelley |
Deputy Marshal |
August 19, 1891 |
Ed Short |
Deputy Marshal |
August 23, 1891 |
Joseph S. Wilson |
Deputy Marshal |
September 23, 1891 |
R. L. Taylor |
Deputy Marshal |
October 1, 1891 |
George Thornton |
Deputy Marshal |
October 28, 1891 |
Dan Osborne |
Deputy Marshal |
November 20, 1891 |
Josiah Poorboy |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
December 8, 1891 |
Thomas Whitehead |
Deputy Marshal |
December 8, 1891 |
John B. Pemberton |
Deputy Marshal |
February 20, 1892 |
Charles K. Stuart |
Deputy Marshal |
March 4, 1892 |
George Wellman |
Deputy Marshal |
May 9, 1892 |
James Ballinger |
Deputy Marshal |
July 21, 1892 |
Andrew W. McGinnis |
Deputy Marshal |
September 13, 1892 |
Vernon Coke Wilson |
Deputy Marshal |
September 13, 1892 |
John Fields |
Deputy Marshal |
October 19, 1892 |
Tom C. Smith |
Deputy Marshal |
November 4, 1892 |
Floyd Wilson |
Deputy Marshal |
December 13, 1892 |
C. B. Brockus |
Deputy Marshal |
February 16, 1893 |
J. Perry Griggs |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
August 10, 1893 |
Joe Gaines |
Deputy Marshal |
August 22, 1893 |
Richard Speed |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
September 1, 1893 |
Thomas J. Hueston |
Deputy Marshal |
September 2, 1893 |
Lafayette Shadley |
Deputy Marshal |
September 3, 1893 |
Bill Harrison |
Deputy Marshal |
May 9, 1894 |
Thomas L. Martin |
Deputy Marshal |
June 4, 1894 |
Robert Pate |
Special
Deputy Marshal |
July 14, 1894 |
Abner D. McLellan |
Deputy Marshal |
July 20, 1894 |
Joe Nix |
Deputy Marshal |
August 3, 1894 |
Thomas Grissom |
Deputy Marshal |
September 13, 1894 |
Lincoln Keeney |
Deputy Marshal |
November 24, 1894 |
John Beard |
Deputy Marshal |
December 9, 1894 |
Newton Leforce |
Deputy Marshal |
December 12, 1894 |
Jim Nakedhead |
Deputy Marshal |
February 27, 1895 |
W. C. McDaniels |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
March 16, 1895 |
Lawrence Keating |
Guard |
July 26, 1895 |
John Garrett |
Deputy Marshal |
July 30, 1895 |
John Davis |
Deputy Marshal |
August 1, 1895 |
John McHenry |
Deputy Marshal |
December 26, 1895 |
Edward Ellis Thurlo |
Deputy Marshal |
February 10, 1896 |
John D. Kirby |
Deputy Marshal |
March 5, 1896 |
Thomas R. Madden |
Deputy Marshal |
April 19, 1896 |
William H. Guyse |
Deputy Marshal |
April 23, 1896 |
A. W. Johnson |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
October 21, 1896 |
William A. Byrd |
Deputy Marshal |
January 16, 1897 |
Joe M. Dodson |
Deputy Marshal |
August 29, 1897 |
B. F. Taylor |
Deputy Marshal |
August 29, 1897 |
James
M. Rowan |
Deputy
Marshal |
January
31, 1898 |
Bill Arnold |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
March 17, 1898 |
Hickman Bruner |
Deputy Marshal |
June 22, 1898 |
J. Boley Grady |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
July 17, 1898 |
L. S. Hill |
Deputy Marshal |
July 17, 1898 |
John T. Sisemore |
Deputy Marshal |
November 17, 1898 |
Joseph Heinrichs |
Deputy Marshal |
March 15, 1899 |
James M. Blair |
Deputy Marshal |
August 21, 1899 |
Tom Taylor |
Deputy Marshal |
October 13, 1900 |
Thomas Price |
Deputy Marshal |
July 20, 1901 |
John Poe |
Deputy Marshal |
September 25, 1901 |
Hugh Montgomery |
Deputy Marshal |
November 17, 1901 |
John A. Montgomery |
Posse |
November 17, 1901 |
J. N. Holsonback |
Deputy Marshal |
January 11, 1902 |
Lute Houston |
Deputy Marshal |
October 20, 1902 |
E. C. Garrison |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
December 24, 1902 |
John B. Jones |
Deputy Marshal |
July 3, 1903 |
Edward D. Fink |
Deputy Marshal |
November 28, 1904 |
J. Henry Vier |
Deputy Marshal |
February 20, 1905 |
Z. T. Wade |
Deputy Marshal |
July 26, 1905 |
Ike L. Gilstrap |
Deputy Marshal |
March 12, 1906 |
James Bourland |
Deputy Marshal |
May 24, 1906 |
James H. Bush |
Deputy Marshal |
June 27, 1906 |
Sam Roberts |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
July 5, 1907 |
John Morrison |
Deputy Marshal |
July 17, 1907 |
L. P. Dixon |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
July 19, 1907 |
George Williams |
Deputy Marshal |
November 16, 1907 |
John C. Mullins |
Deputy Marshal |
December 25, 1908 |
William Benjamin
Franklin Corbin |
Deputy Marshal |
March 8, 1909
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Christopher Duffie
Corbin |
Posse |
March 8, 1909 |
A. W. Holden |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
May 7, 1909 |
William Duncan |
Deputy Marshal |
October 8, 1910 |
G. W. Dillaway |
Deputy Marshal |
December 14, 1911 |
Marion Ramey |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
May 4, 1913 |
John Sloan |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
May 4, 1913 |
Holmes Davidson |
Deputy Marshal |
July 23, 1914 |
William E. Plank |
Deputy Marshal |
July 23, 1914 |
Robert Logan |
Deputy Marshal |
March 9, 1915 |
C. P. Phelgar |
Deputy Marshal |
May 14, 1915 |
Benjamin F. Dixon |
Deputy Marshal |
January 12, 1919 |
John Haven |
Deputy Marshal |
March 4, 1919 |
Isaac Evans |
Deputy Marshal |
September 3, 1919 |
Hugh J. Bartley |
Deputy Marshal |
June 30, 1921 |
Will Cross |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
August 12, 1922 |
J. H. Short |
Deputy Marshal |
May 26, 1923 |
J. Walter Casey |
Deputy Marshal |
July 16, 1923 |
Samuel Lilly |
Deputy Marshal |
July 29, 1924 |
E. F. Flanery |
Deputy Marshal |
March 28, 1928 |
J.
Ray Ward |
U.S. Marshal |
April 15, 1928 |
Adrian Metcalf |
Deputy Marshal |
July 31, 1929 |
Ed H. Sherman |
Deputy Marshal |
April 21, 1930 |
Reuben Hughett |
Deputy U.S. Marshal |
June 13, 1930 |
Clyde Rivers |
Deputy Marshal |
May 16, 1931 |
W. F. Deiter |
Deputy Marshal |
March 1, 1932 |
Robert Sumter |
Deputy Marshal |
August 9, 1933 |
Herbert Ray |
Deputy Marshal |
February 2, 1935 |
Raoul Dorsay |
Deputy Marshal |
November 25, 1937 |
John Luses |
Deputy Marshal |
September 8, 1938 |
Whit G. Wright |
Deputy Marshal |
August 2, 1939 |
Colby S. Farrar |
Deputy Marshal |
October 7, 1939 |
John H. Glenn |
Deputy Marshal |
July 31, 1940 |
George Meffan |
U.S. Marshal |
July 31, 1940 |
Artis J. Chitty |
U.S. Marshal |
August 22, 1940 |
William J. McCormick |
Deputy Marshal |
September 9, 1941 |
Fred L. Peterson |
Deputy Marshal |
July 14, 1951 |
James Guerin |
Deputy Marshal |
December 6, 1951 |
Edmund L. Schweppe |
Deputy Marshal |
September 15, 1952 |
Samuel Enoch Vaughn |
Deputy Marshal |
August 8, 1953 |
Clarence Toone |
Deputy Marshal |
February 10, 1955 |
Noah R. Friend |
Deputy Marshal |
November 13, 1963 |
Carl Joseph Kalafatich |
Deputy Marshal |
February 23, 1968 |
Mercello Moya |
Deputy Marshal |
March 30, 1971 |
Hilton E. Schorre |
Deputy Marshal |
March 30, 1971 |
Henry Dale |
Deputy Marshal |
July 14, 1971 |
Norman Sheriff |
Deputy Marshal |
September 24, 1971 |
Andrew Boehnlein |
Deputy Marshal |
September 26, 1971 |
Dick D. McKinney |
Deputy Marshal |
July 20, 1972 |
Robert S. Cheshire |
Deputy Marshal |
February 13, 1983 |
Kenneth B. Muir
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U.S. Marshal |
February 13, 1983 |
Henry Burton Carlson |
Deputy Marshal |
June 20, 1991 |
Harry A. Belluomini |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
July 20, 1992 |
Roy L. Frakes |
Deputy Marshal |
July 20, 1992 |
William Francis Degan |
Deputy Marshal |
August 21, 1992 |
Gene L. Goldsberry |
Special Deputy
Marshal |
August 5, 1993 |
Peter P. Hillman |
Deputy Marshal |
June 8, 2000 |
Bucky E. Burke |
Deputy Marshal |
September 18, 2007 |
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