Marshall Nominated to Head Marshals Service
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WASHINGTON — President Clinton will nominate a son of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to head the U.S. Marshals Service, the White House said.
John Marshall, who would succeed Eduardo Gonzales, has been U.S. marshal at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., since 1994.
His father, the first black justice, died in 1993. Marshall’s brother, Thurgood Marshall Jr., is an assistant to the president for Cabinet affairs.
The Marshals Service, founded in 1789, provides security at federal courthouses, protects endangered federal witnesses and pursues federal fugitives.
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