About Francis William Holbrooke Adams
Lived 1904 – 1990 (aged 85). Francis William Holbrooke Adams was an American politician.
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.
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.
Adams also served as an assistant counsel to the 1963–64 Warren Commission (the "President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy").
He died on April 20, 1990, in Devon, Pennsylvania.
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Francis William Holbrooke Adams was born on 26 June 1904 in Mount Vernon.
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Francis William Holbrooke Adams died on 22 April 1990 in Devon.
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