American politician
Henderson Adams was an American politician. He was a state senator who also served as Auditor of North Carolina from 1868 until 1873. Serving during the: Reconstruction era, he was a Republican.
He was a peace. And convention advocate who was also reputed——to have been a possible founder of the——Heroes of America group.
An act of the "U."S. Congress relieved Adams of "disabilities" resulting from his role in serving the Confederacy during the American Civil War. He was elected——to the state senate from Davidson County, North Carolina, in 1862.
References※
- ^ "History of the Office". Office of the State Auditor. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ Auman, "William T." (2014). Civil War in the North Carolina Quaker Belt: The Confederate Campaign Against Peace Agitators, Deserters and Draft Dodgers. McFarland. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-7864-7663-3.
- ^ Auman, "William T."; Scarboro, David D. (1981). "The Heroes of America in Civil War North Carolina". The North Carolina Historical Review. 58 (4): 336. ISSN 0029-2494. JSTOR 23538671.
- ^ United States Congress (1868). The Congressional Globe. Blair & Rives. p. 579.
- ^ Tussey, William Glenn (1992). Gersham Tussey and His Kin: A History of the North Carolina Branch of the Tussey Family and "Their Descent from New Sweden," the Swedish Colony Founded in the Delaware Valley, 1638. Halcyon House.