U.S. President William Howard Taft had held this honorary office. After leaving the public sector, Marshall R. Diggs Sr. returned to the private sector but remained in D.C. even setting up an office at 1025 Connecticut Avenue N.W. with some associates. In May 1959, Diggs Sr. meets Mario Garcia Kohly (July 16, 1901 in Cuba to August 1975 in Virginia), who only three months earlier had escaped from a Fidel Castro prison in Cuba, and Diggs Sr agrees to help Kohly carry out his plans to remove Fidel Castro from Office. While in the private sector, Marshall R. Diggs Sr. will become president of MacInar Inc. whose filing date was September 3 of 1958 within the District of Columbia. Then on August 6, 1964, the New York Times carries the following headline: 'Ten Are Indicted In Sale Of Stock'; named among the 10 facing a 76-count indictment is the president of MacInar Inc, Marshall R. Diggs. Within four years of this indictment, Marshall R. Diggs would be dead; he died in September 1968 while still living in Washington, D.C. In addition, MacInar Inc.'s filing status is now listed as revoked. References 1888 births 1968 deaths