President Obama has nominated H. Michael Oglesby to be U.S. marshal in the western district of Arkansas.

He has been sheriff and collector in Polk County since 1989. He was a JP from 1982 to 1989, a deputy sherff 1976-80 and a Mena police patrolman in 1976.

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