Biography of Francis P. Garvan

Francis P. Garvean, who has been selected by President Wilson to succeed Mr. A. Mitchell Palmer as Alien Property Custodian, has been the Director of Investigations under this Department of the Government, since June 1918, serving without salary. It was upon Mr. Garvean's initiative and under his supervision that millions of dollars worth of German property were found in this country and thus brought under the jurisdiction and control of the Alien Property Custodian. Mr. Garvean is a leading lawyer of New York; the son of Partick and Mary Garvean of Connecticut and graduate of Yale, class of '87. He was Assistant United Sates Attorney under District Attorny Jerome and acted in many celebrated cases - notably, the famous homicide cases of Albert T. Patrick and Roland Molineaux. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Bar Association; a Trustee of the Catholic University and a member of the University, Manhattax and Democratic Clubs. He married Miss Mary Brady, daughter of Anthony P. Brady of New York.