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Article: FRANCIS ADAMS, 85 FORMER NY POLICE COMMISSIONER

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April 22, 1990
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NEW YORK - Francis W. H. Adams, a New York police commissioner in the 1950s and a leader of the Reform Democratic movement, died Friday of heart failure at a convalescent home in Devon, Pa. He was 85.

As police commissioner from January 1954 to July 1955 under Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Mr. Adams abolished desk jobs at police headquarters and eliminated the police band and glee club in efforts to ...

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