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- Thomas_J._Cahill abstract "Thomas J. Cahill was chief of police in San Francisco, California from 1958–70 and has the distinction of having the longest tenure as Chief of Police in San Francisco's history, serving under three mayors – George Christopher, John Shelley, and Joseph Alioto - through decades that saw tremendous social changes and upheavals. People called him Tom. He was born June 8, 1910 on Montana Street on the North Side of Chicago. His family repatriated to County Kilkenny, Ireland when he was a child and Cahill returned to San Francisco in 1930.Cahill was educated at Callan Christian Boys School and studied to become a teacher at Ring College in Dungarvan, Ireland and received the school's Gold Ring Award, granted only to student who could speak, read and write Gaelic. But, after returning to San Francisco at the age of nineteen, Cahill, as a red-headed Irishman, could find little work and drove for the City Ice company. He then needed a good job to help support his wife, Margaret Smythe, whom he'd married in San Francisco in 1938. He chose the profession of law enforcement and entered the police department as a recruit, graduating from the San Francisco police academy in July 1942.His first assignment was as a beat patrolman attached to the Potrero station. In 1943, he was transferred to the Accident Investigation Bureau and in 1946 he joined the bureau of inspectors. A year later he was assigned to the Homicide Detail. His partner during his assignment to Homicide was Frank Ahern. When Inspector Ahern, whose permanent civil service rank was "patrolman," was unexpectedly appointed by mayor Roger D. Lapham to the position of Chief of the SFPD, over the heads of every captain, lieutenant, and sergeant in the Department, Inspector Cahill was appointed as Ahern's Deputy Chief. Cahill was elevated to Chief on September 5, 1958, upon Ahern's unexpected death from a heart attack on September 1st at a baseball game. As had been the case with Ahern, Cahill's permanent civil service rank was still only "patrolman." Cahill's first statement after assuming the office of Chief was that Ahern's policies would continue in force; this meant "strict departmental discipline, heads up efficiency and a "closed town". Colleagues remarked that Cahill "enjoyed every detail in police problems and the pursuit of justice".[citation needed]Chief Cahill was hailed at the time of his appointment as SFPD chief by Mayor George Christopher. Tom Cahill in an interview with local San Francisco media shortly before his death, claimed his relationship with Mayor John F. Shelley was broken by the Summer of Love in 1967. Cahill said, "Jack Shelley, (a Democrat, former liberal congressman and labor leader), did not want to show a heavy hand toward the Hippie & Flower Children element." When the Hippie's flooded Golden Gate Park and the Haight-Ashbury district, Cahill contacted the new California governor Ronald Reagan for the California Highway Patrol and the California National Guard to enter San Francisco and sweep the Hippie's from the city. By law, Reagan needed a request from Mayor Shelley. With Governor Reagan and Chief Cahill pleading for his signature, Mayor Shelley refused. Probably no police chief has been so well known nationally. He was the only police chief to be selected by then-President Lyndon Johnson to serve on the President's Commission on Law Enforcement, in 1965. He so impressed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (Hoover called him the best public administrator in the entire U.S.) that Tom was one of the two finalists (along with Clarence Kelly) for the FBI Director post. He was the only police chief in the country to be on the acclaimed television program, Meet the Press; his discernment and articulateness struck everyone when he appeared as a panelist on February 19, 1967.Chief Cahill was one of the finest police chiefs that San Francisco and indeed the State of California has ever had.[citation needed] He was on his honeymoon in 1970, when he was unexpectedly terminated by Mayor Joseph Alioto who appointed Alfred Nelder as San Francisco Police Chief. Chief Cahill was totally blindsided by Mayor Alioto's move.[citation needed] Alioto felt Cahill was too "rigid" and "old fashioned" for law enforcement in 1970s San Francisco. This was indeed a shame, as Cahill loved, lived, and breathed the SFPD. While Al Nelder was a good chief and an honorable man, he was not the iconic figure that Tom Cahill was.[citation needed] After Chief Cahill's termination on February 4, 1970, he became Chief of Security for Pac Bell in San Francisco until July 1, 1975, shortly after he reached his mandatory retirement age. He also ran successfully for a position on the San Francisco Charter Revision Committee.In 1994, San Francisco honored the Police Chief by renaming the Hall of Justice in San Francisco as the Thomas J. Cahill Hall of Justice.In 2000, he married 80-year-old Elizabeth Wright, a longtime friend and the widow of former Fremont Police Chief Clinton Wright.He died on October 12, 2002, at the age of 92 of congestive heart failure in Lake County at Queen of the Valley Hospital in Clearlake Park, California. He was survived by his third wife, Elizabeth (Wright), and four children: Thomas, Jr.; John; Edmond; and Elizabeth and many grandchildren. His favorite grandchild was Shannon, his Munecita Linda.".
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