Robert Edward Adamson
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Edward Adamson (March 31, 1871 September 19, 1935) was an American journalist and public official. Adamson was born on March 31, 1871 in Georgia to Augustus Pitt Adamson and Martilla Ellen Cook. He began writing articles for the Macon, Georgia newspaper while still in his teens. At age 20, he became city editor of the Atlanta Constitution. He later moved to New York City and worked as a reporter for The New York Sun, the New York World, and the Brooklyn Eagle. He married Ethel McClintock May on December 10, 1902 at Trinity Chapel in Manhattan.…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Edward Adamson (March 31, 1871 September 19, 1935) was an American journalist and public official. Adamson was born on March 31, 1871 in Georgia to Augustus Pitt Adamson and Martilla Ellen Cook. He began writing articles for the Macon, Georgia newspaper while still in his teens. At age 20, he became city editor of the Atlanta Constitution. He later moved to New York City and worked as a reporter for The New York Sun, the New York World, and the Brooklyn Eagle. He married Ethel McClintock May on December 10, 1902 at Trinity Chapel in Manhattan. In 1910, Adamson became secretary to New York Mayor William Jay Gaynor, and gained fame by helping thwart an assassination attempt on Gaynor. When Gaynor died in September 1910, Adamson continued as secretary to the new mayor, Ardolph Loges Kline. In 1914, he was campaign manager for John Purroy Mitchel, who after his election appointed Adamson as the 9th Fire Commissioner of the City of New York. Adamson served in that position until the end of the Mitchel Administration on December 31, 1917.