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RALEIGH — The U.S. Marshals Service has announced the appointment of Clyde R. Cook Jr. as the United States Marshal for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Cook, of Garner, was appointed to this position on June 30 by President George W. Bush, the service said in a news release.
Cook, formerly of Jacksonville, N.C., is the son of former Jacksonville Police Chief Clyde R. Cook Sr. and Evelyn E. Cook. A 1972 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cook took the new job after retiring as marshal for the state Supreme Court. Prior to that, Cook was an enforcement officer for the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles and the Alcohol Law Enforcement Division.
The U.S. Marshals Service is America's oldest federal law enforcement agency.
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