Lawman Index - D

"No man is above the law and no man is below it nor do we ask any

 man’s permission when we require him to obey it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

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• C .N. Dagger - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Southern District at Paris, Texas serving under Marshal Sheb Williams. On November 1, 1890, a dispatch was received from Vernon, Texas stating that Dagger had been shot in Kiowa and Comanche country and was in dire need of assistance. 

• Crawley P. Dake (1836-1890) - Union soldier during the Civil War and U.S. Marshal for Arizona Territory from 1878 to 1882.

• Frank Dalton (1859-1887) - The older brother of the boys who formed the Dalton Gang, Frank was a U.S. Deputy Marshal at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Involved in a number of gunfights during his short career, he was killed, along Deputy J.R. Cole in 1887 by a man named Dave Smith.

• Grattan "Grat” Dalton (1865-1892) - A member of the deadly Dalton Gang, Grat was first a U.S. Deputy Marshal before he chose a life a crime -- a decision that would get him killed in the Coffeyville Raid.

• T. A. Dalton, was commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas. 

• J .L. Dameron - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned Northern Judicial District in 1894. 

• Edwin B. Daniels (18??-1874) - St. Clair County, Missouri Deputy Sheriff killed by Jim Younger near Roscoe, Missouri on March 17, 1874.

• Charles. E. Danley- U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas. 

• John Dansby - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas. 

H. A. Daughtery - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on December 16, 1895 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal George Crump. 

• Clint  Davenport - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on May 9, 1888 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes. 

• L. P. Davenport - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Central District of Indian Territory in 1894.

• B. P.  Davis - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District of Arkansas in 1899. 

• G. W. Davis - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on May 29, 1893 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal George J. Crump. 

• James C. Davis - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on June 27, 1891 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes. 

• John Davis - A U.S. Deputy Marshal in Indian Territory. On August 1, 1895, he tracked Sam Butler, a wanted murderer and member of the Cook Gang, to the Verdigris River and when he tried to arrest the fugitive, Butler began to fire his gun. Davis fell mortally wounded but fired one last shot, killing Butler instantly.

• John  B. Davis - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Southern District assigned to Durant, Choctaw Nation.   

• John T. Davis - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on June 12, 1893 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal George Crump.

• Lon Davis - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Muskogee Court in 1898, serving under Marshal Leo Bennett.

• George F. Dean - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

• Robert S. Dean - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on January 8, 1869, in the District Court at Van Buren, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Joseph Rowland

• George F. Deane - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on June 15, 1871 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Logan S. Roots. 

• Andy Dearing - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on July 5, 1893 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal George J. Crump.

• Leon DeBost  - U.S. Deputy Marshal who was working in the Kingfisher or El Reno area in 1892. 

• Ollie "Big Nose George" Deetz (1850-1889) - A lawman turned outlaw, Deetz was hanged at Rock Creek, Wyoming.

• George DeLaughter - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas. He rode in a posse led by Columbus Ayers in October, 1883, which arrested Johnson Jacks, who had been charged with murdering U.S. Deputy Marshal Addison Beck. 

• Cyrus Dennis - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District court under Marshal John Carrol out of Fort Smith, Arkansas. He also served as a Seminole Lighthorsemen in the Indian Police for twenty-five years. 

• John G. Dennis - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned the Central District in 1894. 

• G. M. Denny - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

• C. R. Denton - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned out of the Southern District of Indian Territory and assigned to Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation.   

• George E. Denton - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on August 2, 1888 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

• J. O. Denton - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas. 

• W. B. Depew - U.S. Deputy Marshal working the Atoka area with Deputy Marshal Mattox in May, 1890. 

• C. H. Derford - U.S. Deputy Marshal working under Marshal W. C. Grimes in Oklahoma Territory and later became sheriff of Oklahoma City County.

• J. J. Dickerson - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas. 

• Lorenzo Dickerson - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Southern District Court of Indian Territory at Paris, Texas in 1889.

• Ran Dickerson - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Southern District Court of Indian Territory at Paris, Texas.  In February, 1891, Deputies Ran Dickerson, Bill Ritter, Frank LeFlore, and Bill McCall caught up with the Gordon Gang at Brunertown, Seminole Nation and killed Wash Bruner during a gun battle

• Henry C. Dickey - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas. 

• William D. Dickson - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on December 22, 1894 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal George J. Crump. 

• H. L. Dill - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in the Western District of Arkansas in 1899. 

• Donald H. "John" Dillingham (1837-1863) - Deputy Sheriff under Henry Plummer in Bannack, Montana, he was killed by Deputies Charley Forbes and Buck Stinson and another man named Hayes Lyons in Virginia City, Montana.

• Frank S. Dimond - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in Oklahoma Territory in October, 1894 serving under Marshal Evett Nix. 

• Daniel H. Divelbirg - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned on June 28, 1869 in the District Court at Van Buren, Arkansas serving under Marshal William A. Britton. 

• Henry W. Dixon - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned in 1872 in the Western District at Fort Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Logan S. Roots.  He first lived Scott County, Arkansas while he worked in the Western District Court, but in 1887 was assigned to the Southern District of Indian Territory, located in Paris, Texas, working under Marshal Thomas B. Needles. 

• Frederick "Fred" James Dodge (1854-1938) - Wells Fargo Detective, constable of Tombstone, Arizona, and Texas cattleman, Dodge was in Tombstone during its rowdy boom days.

• James M. Dodson (1842-1907) - Prescott, Arizona City Marshal.

• John Doherty - Doherty served as the Mora County, New Mexico Sheriff before he was later murdered.

• Cornelius "Lame Johnny" Donahue (1850-1878) - A lawman and an outlaw, Donahue came from the east to be a cowboy in Texas, but failing that, he became a horse thief. He wound up in Deadwood, South Dakota, where he was a deputy sheriff before returning to a life of crime and being hanged by vigilantes.

• Leslie Dow (18??-1897) - A gunfighter and a lawman, Dow killed killed Zack Light in a gunfight in the late 1880s. He later became sheriff of Eddy County, New Mexico on November 27, 1896. He was killed the next April by the former sheriff, Dave Kemp.

• William Downing - Served as a Deputy sheriff in Willcox, Arizona under Burt" Alvord in the late 1890's. Later, when Alvord turned outlaw, Downing allowed him to escape.

• E.L.M Drake (18??-1892) - U.S. Deputy Marshal in Oklahoma Territory. He was killed in the line of duty on May 25, 1892.

• Charles N. Dugger - (18??-1896) - A U.S. Deputy Marshal in Oklahoma Territory, Dugger was killed in the line of duty on June 20, 1896.

• John Riley Duncan (1850-1911) - Dallas police officer, detective and Texas Ranger, most noteworthy in the capture of John Wesley Hardin.

• Perry DuVal (18?-1873) - A U.S. Deputy Marshal in Indian Territory, Duval was killed in the line of duty.

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