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Oral history.; Mr. Harold Ray Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on October 5, 1948. In 1968 he was drafted into the Army and served in Vietnam for four years. Mr. Presley married and became the father of two sons and a daughter. Elvis Presley was his second cousin. In 1993 he was elected sheriff of Lee County. During his tenure as sheriff, Mr. Presley received numerous awards and initiated the DARE Program, among other activities, to tackle illegal drug sales and use. Mr. Presley died on July 6, 2001, in a shootout with a kidnapping suspect. Mr. Presley pushed his deputy out of the line of fire, almost certainly saving him from injury or death.