Background
Adams was born in Douglastown, New Brunswick (now part of Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada) on September 16, 1848.
United States representative politician
Adams was born in Douglastown, New Brunswick (now part of Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada) on September 16, 1848.
Adams graduated with a degree in law in 1876 and was admitted to the bar the same year.
He emigrated to the United States in 1864, settling in New York City, and worked in a dry-goods firm in New York City until he began studies at Columbia Law School. Elected to the United States House of Representatives from two different districts, Adams represented the 8th District in the forty-eighth United States Congress from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1885. He then represented the 7th district in the fiftieth United States Congress from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1887.
Both districts at the time were in Queens. He did not seek renomination in 1886 and returned to the practice of law. Adams died suddenly, of heart disease (a year after suffering a stroke of paralysis), in the Ansonia Hotel, Manhattan, New York County, New York, on February 16, 1919 (age 70 years, 153 days).
He is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
He was member of mem.