Samuel Adams (governor)

Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams (born June 5, 1805 in Halifax County , Virginia , † February 27, 1850 in Saline County , Arkansas ) was an American politician and in 1844 incumbent governor of the state of Arkansas.

Samuel Adams did not attend special schools and acquired the necessary knowledge himself. In 1835 he moved to the Arkansas Territory and became a planter . There he was also politically active: In 1840 he was elected to the Arkansas Senate as a member of the Democratic Party . During his second term in the Senate, he was its President. When Governor Archibald Yell resigned from his office on April 29, 1844 to move to the US Congress , Adams had to take over his duties in accordance with the constitution and terminate the remaining term of office.

Adams served as governor of Arkansas between April 29 and November 5, 1844. In these six months he continued the policy of his predecessor and promoted above all the expansion of the infrastructure and the school system. After the end of his brief tenure, he became Secretary of the Treasury of Arkansas in 1846. He held this post until his death in 1850. Samuel Adams was married to Rebecca May, with whom he had six children.

Web links

• Samuel Adams in the National Governors Association (English)
• Samuel Adams in the database of Find a Grave (English)