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Other Bain/LOC portraits of Capt. John McClintock:

Captain McClintock was appointed First Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City on February 1, 1914. A New York Times story (December 8, 1914) hinted that his resignation only ten months later was motivated by a desire to accept a police post in the new (and USA-administered) Panama Canal Zone: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B00E...

On February 1, 1914, Captain McClintock was appointed First Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City -- a post from which he resigned ten months later. This photo bears the Bain Agency's date of February 2, 1914. (A New York Times Story on December 8, 1914, hinted that his resignation ten months later was motivated by a desire to accept a police post in the newly-created -- and USA-administered -- Panama Canal Zone): query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B00E... Other Bain/LOC portraits of Capt. John McClintock:

I added his to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_John_McClintock He was the son of Emory McClintock of of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. He attended Berkeley School and later Columbia University and the New York University School of Law. His United States Army service began in the Spanish American War. Frank Swett Black appointed him a major in the 203rd New York Volunteers. He was appointed by Douglas Imrie McKay as a First Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City on February 1, 1914. He resigned on December 15, 1914 in the aftermath of the killing of Barnet Baff.

Edward Everett McCall (1863-1924), former New York Supreme (Trial) Court Justice, unsuccessful New York Mayoral Candidate, and here in January 1915 Chairman of the New York (State) Public Service Commission, making an appearance at the disaster site. According to the Political Graveyard site, he was "chair, New York State Public Service Commission, 1913-15; removed from office in November, 1915, because he owned stock in a company under commission jurisdiction." politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccall.html

artolog: thank you for the additional information. We will update the record.