Francis W. H. Adams
American attorney and police commissioner
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Francis William Holbrooke Adams (June 26, 1904 – April 20, 1990) was an American lawyer who served as the New York City Police Commissioner from 1954 to 1955.
Francis W. H. Adams | |
|---|---|
| Police Commissioner of New York City | |
| In office January 1, 1954 – August 2, 1955 | |
| Mayor | Robert F. Wagner Jr. |
| Preceded by | George P. Monaghan |
| Succeeded by | Stephen P. Kennedy |
| United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Acting | |
| In office May 16, 1935 – November 20, 1935 | |
| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Martin Conboy |
| Succeeded by | Lamar Hardy |
Biography
Adams was born in Mount Vernon, New York, on June 26, 1904. He grew up in Saddle River, New Jersey, and rode to horseback to school in nearby Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. He graduated from Williams College in 1925 and Fordham Law School in 1928. Upon graduation, he joined the firm O'Brien, Boardman, Memhard, Fox & Early, where he had worked as a clerk while in law school.[1]
In 1934, he became assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.[1][2]
Adams also served as an assistant counsel to the 1963–64 Warren Commission (the "President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy").[3]
He died on April 20, 1990, in Devon, Pennsylvania.[1][4]