By Danny Fenster
ticklethewire.com
The “dean of federal law enforcement in Tulsa”has passed away.
Don Crowl’s 25-year career with the Secret Service included stints on security details of six presidents, from Lyndon Johnson to George H. W. Bush, plus other politicians, judges, foreign dignitaries and cabinet members, reports the Tulsa World. He passed away on Monday at age 72.
“The criminal investigations, the whodunits, the thrill of the chase,” he told the Tulsa World once, “It’s what I like best about the job.”
The Tulsa paper described him as “the unquestioned dean of federal law enforcement in Tulsa.”
Crowl’s son Doug wowed classmates at show-and-tell when he brought his dad in. “It was fantastic. He came every year. It became a sort of tradition,” he told the Tulsa World. “All my friends looked forward to it, my dad coming to talk about what a cool job he had.”
Crowl joined the Secret Service 1965 as the agency was expanding in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He protected Vice President Hubert Humphrey during the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots in Chicago and President Nixon in preparation for his first trip to China, the paper reported.
Crowley was named to lead the Tulsa Office of the Secret Service, pursuing investigations of counterfeiting and other federal cases. In 1989 he was nominated for the US Marshal’s post by President George H. W. Bush.
Crowl retired in 1994 as U.S. Marshal.
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