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Oftentimes when we discuss U.S. Marshals in regards to the Old West, what we're really talking

about are deputies, men hired by the Marshal Service to

enforce the law, or more accurately, to support the federal courts. Currently, there are 94 U.S.

Marshals, one for every federal judicial district, with nearly 4,000 deputies working under them.

And it's been that way ever since 1789 when Congress passed the Judiciary Act.

Of course, back then, there were only 13 districts, so just 13 marshals, and far, far less deputies.

Wyatt Earp, Bill Tillman, Bass Reeves, Bat Masterson, the fictional rooster Cogburn, and our current star

du jour Frank Canton were not United States Marshals. They were deputy

U.S. Marshals. It's sort of like the difference between being a sheriff and a deputy sheriff,

just on a larger scale. Where I live in my judicial district, we have one U.S. Marshal in an area that

covers like 42 counties. Also, sheriffs are elected, whereas marshals are appointed by the president and then approved by the U.S. Senate.

Now, the one piece of profanity I tend to shy away from on this podcast is the word politics.

Ugh, just sounds kind of filthy, doesn't it?

You know where the word originates from, right?

Polly being the ancient Greek word for

many and ticks, a blood-sucking insect. Nevertheless, both the positions of sheriff and U.S. Marshal

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