Francis W. H. Adams
Deceased Person
1904 – 1990
Who was Francis W. H. Adams?
Francis William Holbrooke Adams was an American lawyer who served as the New York City Police Commissioner from 1954 to 1955.
Adams was born in Mount Vernon, New York. 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.
In 1934, he became assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
He also served as an assistant counsel to the 1963–64 Warren Commission.
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