Bidwell Adam
{{Short description|American lawyer and politician (1894–1982)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Bidwell Adam.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1894|1|12}}
| birth_place = Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1982|12|20|1894|1|12}}
| death_place = Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S.
| office = Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
| governor = Theodore G. Bilbo
| termstart = January 1928
| termend = January 1932
| party = Democratic
| predecessor = Dennis Murphree
| successor = Dennis Murphree
}}
Cayton Bidwell Adam (January 12, 1894 – December 20, 1982) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1928 to 1932.
Biography
Cayton Bidwell Adam was born on January 12, 1894, in Mobile, Alabama.{{Cite news |date=1982-12-22 |title=Noted trial lawyer Bidwell Adam dies |pages=11 |work=Clarion-Ledger |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84048913/noted-trial-lawyer-bidwell-adam-dies/ |access-date=2022-01-30}}{{Cite web |title=Bidwell Adam in Social Security Death Index |url=https://www.fold3.com/record/53761983/bidwell-adam-social-security-death-index |access-date=2022-01-30 |website=Fold3 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Mississippi. Legislature |date=1928-01-01 |title=Hand book : biographical data of members of Senate and House, personnel of standing committees [1928] |url=https://egrove.olemiss.edu/sta_leghb/1 |journal=Mississippi Legislature Hand Books}} He was the son of Emile J. Adam, who served as a county supervisor and justice of the peace, and his wife, Mattie (Capers) Adam.{{Cite news |date=1970-02-22 |title=Bidwell Adams Stepping Into Semi-Retirement |pages=18 |work=Clarion-Ledger |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58026671/bidwell-adams-stepping-into/ |access-date=2022-01-30}}{{Cite news |date=1954-01-17 |title=Capers, Mattie - Death Notice |pages=11 |work=Clarion-Ledger |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14619870/capers-mattie-death-notice/ |access-date=2022-01-30}} He grew up in Pass Christian, Mississippi. He then graduated from Millsaps College in 1913. Adam was then elected to the Pass Christian city council. He resigned to fight in World War I, and served in the 152nd Infantry, Company G, in France. In 1920, Adam was elected to the Board of Supervisors of Harrison County, Mississippi. In 1927, at the age of 33, Adam was elected to the office of Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi. He held this office from 1928 to 1932. Starting in 1934, Adam was the chairman of the Harrison County Democratic Executive Committee, and Adam held this office for 36 years.{{Cite book |last=Expenditures, 1946 |first=United States Congress Senate Special Committee to Investigate Senatorial Campaign |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PKkVAAAAIAAJ |title=Senatorial Campaign Expenditures, 1946, Hearings Before ... 79-2 Pursuant to S. Res. 224 ... Mississippi, December 2, 3, 4, and 5, 1946 |date=1947 |pages=361 |language=en}} From 1956 to 1968, Adam was also the Chairman of the Mississippi State Democratic Executive Committee.{{Cite journal |last=Mississippi |date=1964–1968 |title=Mississippi official and statistical register. |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000549439 |journal=Mississippi Official and Statistical Register |pages=384 |issn=0196-4755}}{{Cite journal |last=Mississippi |date=1960–1964 |title=Mississippi official and statistical register |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000549439 |journal=Mississippi Official and Statistical Register |pages=336 |issn=0196-4755}}{{Cite journal |last=Mississippi |date=1956–1960 |title=Mississippi official and statistical register |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000549439 |journal=Mississippi Official and Statistical Register |pages=373 |issn=0196-4755}} Adam died on the night of December 20, 1982, at his home in Gulfport, Mississippi.
References
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Category:American segregationists
Category:Lieutenant governors of Mississippi
Category:20th-century Mississippi politicians
Category:People from Pass Christian, Mississippi