Lewis Joseph Valentine
New York City Police Commissioner
About Lewis Joseph Valentine
Lived 1882 – 1946 (aged 64). Lewis Joseph Valentine was an American.
Lewis Joseph Valentine (March 19, 1882 – December 16, 1946) was the New York City Police Commissioner from 1934 to 1945, under Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia during the Murder, Inc. era. He was the author of an autobiography Night stick: The autobiography of Lewis J. Valentine. He was Police Commissioner of New York for eleven years, longer than any other previous person in that position.
After New York, he advised the Tokyo Police Force.
Biography He was born on March 19, 1882. Valentine joined the New York Police Department in 1903, at age 21. He died on December 16, 1946.
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New York City Police Commissioner
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Lewis Joseph Valentine was born on 19 March 1882 in Brooklyn.
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Lewis Joseph Valentine died on 16 December 1946 in New York City.
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