Background
Adams, Stephen was born on October 17, 1807 in Pendleton District, South Carolina, United States.
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Adams, Stephen was born on October 17, 1807 in Pendleton District, South Carolina, United States.
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. Adams was elected to the United States. 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 in 1857, and was interred in Elmwood Cemetery.
Member Tenn; member United States House Member Mission; member Mississippi Member United States Senate (Union Democrat, filled vacancy caused by resignation of Jefferson Davis) from Mississippi