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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 327 

Recognizing the 218th anniversary of the United States Marshals Service. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007 

Mrs. DOLE (for herself and Mr. KENNEDY) submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Recognizing the 218th anniversary of the United States 

Marshals Service. 

Whereas the United States Marshals Service was formed as 

a result of the Judiciary Act of September 24, 1789, and 

the first 13 United States Marshals were appointed by 

President George Washington with their primary mission 

being to support the Federal courts; 

Whereas, in the early years, United States Marshals and 

Deputy United States Marshals executed warrants, distributed presidential proclamations, protected the president, registered enemy aliens in time of war, pursued 

counterfeiters, and helped conduct the national census, 

and later maintained law and order in the ‘‘Wild West’’, 

helped contain the uprising at Wounded Knee, kept the 

trains rolling during the Pullman Strike in 1894, and enforced the 18th Amendment during Prohibition; 


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Whereas, on November 14, 1960, 4 Deputy United States 

Marshals accompanied 6-year-old Ruby Bridges to her elementary school after a Federal judge ordered the desegregation of the New Orleans public school system, and, 

in 1962, when James Meredith sought to legally become 

the first Black person to attend the University of Mississippi, the duty of upholding the Federal law allowing 

him to do so fell upon the shoulders of 127 Deputy Marshals from all over the country who risked their lives to 

make his dream a reality; 

Whereas Deputy United States Marshals assisted in restoring 

order after the Los Angeles riots in 1992, provided security to 18 airports in the hours and days following the 

attacks on September 11, 2001, played an instrumental 

role in the ‘‘DC Sniper’’ investigation, were deployed to 

the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, and provided security for the trials of Oklahoma bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh and Al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias 

Moussaoui; 

Whereas, in August 2007, Deputy Marshals participated in 

the manhunt for fugitive Paul Devoe who was wanted for 

5 murders in Texas and another in Pennsylvania, and 

who was apprehended in Shirley, New York, by the 

United States Marshals Service’s New York/New Jersey 

Regional Fugitive Task Force; 

Whereas, over the past 218 years, the Marshals Service has 

grown and evolved into a modern law enforcement agency, still charged with protecting the Federal judiciary, 

but also with apprehending dangerous fugitives, conducting protective operations, ensuring the security of 

witnesses and their families, providing for the custody 

and transportation of Federal prisoners, managing the 


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Federal Government’s seized asset program, and conducting special operations as required by the Attorney 

General, and no other law enforcement agency has as 

many diverse missions and is as versatile; 

Whereas over 200 United States Marshals, Deputy Marshals, 

and Special Deputy Marshals have given their lives in 

service to their Nation; and 

Whereas, as the times have changed, the missions of the 

United States Marshals have changed, but the Marshals 

Service has answered the call to duty without exception: 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) honors the 5,000 members of the United 

3 States Marshals Service who every day carry out 

4 complex and life-threatening missions with integrity, 

5 skill, and valor on behalf of their Nation; 

6 (2) commends United States Marshals Service 

7 Director John Clark for his service and leadership; 

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9 (3) thanks the United States Marshals Service 

10 for its contributions as the agency celebrates its 

11 218th anniversary. 

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