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Thomas Byrnes  

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  • A famous New York City detective, police chief, and author, Thomas Byrnes was born in Ireland and immigrated to the United States as an infant. He grew up in New York's Fifth Ward along the Hudson River. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Byrnes, Thomas]

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