Dwight Crandall Tosh (born November 12, 1948) is a retired trooper of the

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from Jonesboro,

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, who is a

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member of the

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for District 52 in Craighead Poinsett,

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, and

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counties in the northeastern portion of his state.

Biography

Tosh and his wife, Joan, have two children. He is a

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. He formerly resided in Newport,

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, and Bentonville, Arkansas. In 1962, at the age of 13, Tosh was diagnosed with

Hodgkin lymphoma Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a type of lymphoma, in which cancer originates from a specific type of white blood cell called lymphocytes, where multinucleated Reed–Sternberg cells (RS cells) are present in the patient's lymph nodes. The condition wa ...

. He received treatment at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in

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, where he was the hospital's seventeenth patient.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tosh, Dwight 1948 births 21st-century American politicians American state police officers Arkansas Republicans Living people People from Bentonville, Arkansas People from Forrest City, Arkansas People from Newport, Arkansas Politicians from Jonesboro, Arkansas