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 Republican 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 non-denominational Christian. He formerly resided in Newport,

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

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. He received treatment at

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, where he was the hospital's seventeenth patient.

References

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