| 词条 | Stephen Adams (politician) |
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|name = Stephen Adams |image = Stephen Adams.jpg |jr/sr1 = United States Senator |state1 = Mississippi |term_start1 = March 17, 1852 |term_end1 = March 4, 1857 |predecessor1 = John J. McRae |successor1 = Jefferson Davis |state2 = Mississippi |district2 = at-large |term_start2 = March 4, 1845 |term_end2 = March 3, 1847 |preceded2 = William H. Hammett |succeeded2 = no at-large seat |office3 = Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives |term3 = 1850 |birth_date = {{birth date|1807|10|17}} |birth_place = Pendleton, South Carolina |death_date = {{death date and age|1857|5|1|1807|10|17}} |death_place = Memphis, Tennessee |party = Democratic }} Stephen Adams (October 17, 1807{{spaced ndash}}May 1, 1857) was a United States Representative and Senator from Mississippi. BiographyBorn in Pendleton, South Carolina, he moved with his parents to Franklin County, Tennessee in 1812. He attended the public schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1829, and was a member of the Tennessee Senate in 1833-1834. He moved to Aberdeen, Mississippi in 1834 and commenced the practice of law; he was circuit court judge from 1837 to 1845, and was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress, serving from March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1847. He again became a judge of the circuit court in 1848, was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1850 and was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1851. Adams was elected to the U.S. Senate on February 19, 1852, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jefferson Davis and served from March 17, 1852, to March 4, 1857; while in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Retrenchment (Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses). He moved to Memphis, Tennessee and resumed the practice of law; he died there of smallpox [1]in 1857 and was interred in Elmwood Cemetery. References1. ^http://monroe.msghn.org/bios/adams.html {{CongBio|A000048}}
|state=Mississippi |district=AL |before=William H. Hammett |after=no at-large seat |years=1845{{spaced ndash}}1847 }}{{s-par|us-sen}}{{U.S. Senator box |state=Mississippi |class=1 |before=John J. McRae |after=Jefferson Davis |alongside=Walker Brooke and Albert G. Brown |years=March 17, 1852 – March 3, 1857 }}{{s-end}}{{USSenMS}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, Stephen}} 14 : 1807 births|1857 deaths|Mississippi state court judges|Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives|Members of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi|People from Aberdeen, Mississippi|Politicians from Memphis, Tennessee|People from Pendleton, South Carolina|Tennessee state senators|United States Senators from Mississippi|Mississippi Democrats|Democratic Party United States Senators|Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives|19th-century American politicians |
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