Edmund W. Starling

Edmund W. Starling was born in Hopkinsville in 1875. He served as chief of the White House detail of the U.S. Secret Service and guarded five presidents from Woodrow Wilson through Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Col. Starling co-authored a book about his years of service with Thomas Sugrue, Starling of the White House : the story of the man whose Secret Service detail guarded five presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt.