Stephen Adams (October 17,1807 –May 11,1857) was a United States Representative (1845 to 1847) and Senator (1852 to 1857) from Mississippi.
Adams was born to David Adams,a Baptist clergyman,in Pendleton,South Carolina;he moved with his parents to Franklin County,Tennessee in 1812. [1] He attended the public schools,studied law,was admitted to the bar in 1829,practiced in Franklin County. [1] He was an slaveowner. [2]
He was a member of the Tennessee Senate from 1833 to 1834,when he removed to Aberdeen,Mississippi [1] and commenced the practice of law. He was circuit court judge from 1837 to 1846,and was elected as a Democratic representative to the Twenty-ninth Congress, [1] 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. [1]
Adams was elected to the U.S. Senate on February 19,1852,to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jefferson Davis [1] and served from March 17,1852 to March 3,1857;while in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Retrenchment (Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses).
At the close of his term he removed to Memphis,Tennessee and resumed the practice of law [1] until he died there of smallpox [3] on May 11,1857 [4] and was interred in Elmwood Cemetery.
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