Note: This is just one of
1,164
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Joel Adams (1750-1830) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Virginia, February
4, 1750.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; planter;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1814-15.
Baptist.
Died in Congaree, Richland District (now Richland
County), S.C., July 9,
1830 (age 80 years, 155
days).
Interment at St.
John's Episcopal Churchyard, Congaree, S.C.
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Joel Adams II (1784-1859) —
Born in Congaree, Richland District (now Richland
County), S.C., March 6,
1784.
Planter;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1832-33.
Died in Congaree, Richland District (now Richland
County), S.C., May 1,
1859 (age 75 years, 56
days).
Interment somewhere
in Richland County, S.C.
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William Weston Adams (1786-1831) —
Born in Congaree, Richland District (now Richland
County), S.C., October
15, 1786.
Physician;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1816-17.
Died in Congaree, Richland District (now Richland
County), S.C., 1831
(age about
44 years).
Interment somewhere
in Richland County, S.C.
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James Hopkins Adams (1812-1861) —
also known as James H. Adams —
of Gadsden, Richland District (now Richland
County), S.C.
Born in Congaree, Richland District (now Richland
County), S.C., March
15, 1812.
Planter;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1834-37, 1840-41,
1848-49; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1851-54; candidate for Presidential
Elector for South Carolina; Governor of
South Carolina, 1854-56; delegate
to South Carolina secession convention from Richland, 1860-61;
died in office 1861.
Episcopalian.
Died in Columbia, Richland District (now Richland
County), S.C., July 13,
1861 (age 49 years, 120
days).
Interment at St.
John's Episcopal Churchyard, Congaree, S.C.
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James Uriah Adams (1812-1871) —
Born in Richland District (now Richland
County), S.C., February
12, 1812.
Planter;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1864.
Died in Richland
County, S.C., March 7,
1871 (age 59 years, 23
days).
Interment at St.
John's Episcopal Churchyard, Congaree, S.C.
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James Pickett Adams (1828-1904) —
Born in Richland District (now Richland
County), S.C., September
2, 1828.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1858-61, 1888-89; major
in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1872.
Died in Richland
County, S.C., November
1, 1904 (age 76 years, 60
days).
Interment at St.
John's Episcopal Churchyard, Congaree, S.C.
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Henry Walker Adams (1852-1903) —
of Richland
County, S.C.
Born in Richland District (now Richland
County), S.C., December
5, 1852.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Richland County,
1894-96.
Died in Richland
County, S.C., March 3,
1903 (age 50 years, 88
days).
Interment somewhere
in Richland County, S.C.
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Edward Clarkson Leverette Adams (1876-1946) —
also known as Ned Adams —
Born in Richland
County, S.C., January
5, 1876.
Physician;
farmer;
author;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1916, 1922; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I.
Died in Richland
County, S.C., November
1, 1946 (age 70 years, 300
days).
Interment somewhere
in Richland County, S.C.
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Weston Adams II (b. 1938) —
of Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.
Born in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., September
15, 1938.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1972-74; delegate to
Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1976,
1980
(alternate), 1988,
1992,
1996
(alternate); candidate for Presidential Elector for South Carolina;
U.S. Ambassador to Malawi, 1984-86; producer of the movie
Strike the Tent (2005).
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2005.
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Robert Adams (VI) (b. 1963) —
of Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.
Born, in a hospital
at Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., July 3,
1963.
Lobbyist;
campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Strom
Thurmond, 1990, and Gov. David
Beasley, 1994; candidate for South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1996.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2004.
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