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With over 200 officers, it is the largest law enforcement agency in Jackson County. The current sheriff for the Jackson County Sheriff's Office is John Ledbetter (Acting). The county's largest city in population is Pascagoula, Mississippi.
The town of Marks was named after Leopold Marks (1851-1910) who left Germany to avoid conscription by the German army. He arrived in New York in 1868. Marks, a Jew, became Quitman County's first representative to the state legislature and served for eight years. He encouraged the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad to come to the area by ...