Thom's Irish Who's Who/McAdoo, William

McADOO, William, ex-Congress man b. Rathmelton, Co. Donegal, Ireland, Oct. 25th, 1853; son of Joseph and Elizabeth McAdoo; came to U.S. in early boyhood. Educ. public schools; (LL.D., New York University, 1915); m. 1885, Eva Lee Tardy, of Richmond, Virginia; at age of 20 became law student in office of late I. W. Scudder, Jersey City, occupying leisure hours with reporting for local newspaper; admitted to Bar and was appointed Attorney, Hudson Co. (N.J.) Bd. of Health; became member of N.J. Assembly; Member 48th to 51st Congresses (1893-91), 7th N.J. Dist.; Asst. Sec. of the Navy, 1893-7; since then in law practice in New York; Police Commissioner of New York, 1904-5; Chief City Magistrate, July 1, 1910. Author: Guarding a Great City, 1906. Res.: 20 Gramercy Park, New York, U.S.A. Office: 300 Mulberry Street, New York.