Henderson Adams

{{short description|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.{{Cite web|title=History of the Office|url=https://www.auditor.nc.gov/pub42/History.aspx|access-date=2020-07-08|publisher=Office of the State Auditor}} 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.{{Cite book|last=Auman|first=William T.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TnpHAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22henderson+adams%22+senator&pg=PA148|title=Civil War in the North Carolina Quaker Belt: The Confederate Campaign Against Peace Agitators, Deserters and Draft Dodgers|date=2014|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-7663-3|pages=148|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last1=Auman|first1=William T.|last2=Scarboro|first2=David D.|date=1981|title=The Heroes of America in Civil War North Carolina|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23538671|journal=The North Carolina Historical Review|volume=58|issue=4|pages=336|jstor=23538671|issn=0029-2494}}

An act of the U.S. Congress relieved Adams of "disabilities" resulting from his role in serving the Confederacy during the American Civil War.{{Cite book|last=United States Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kvre2Nur8z8C&dq=%22henderson+adams%22+senator&pg=RA6-PA579|title=The Congressional Globe|date=1868|publisher=Blair & Rives|pages=579|language=en}} He was elected to the state senate from Davidson County, North Carolina, in 1862.{{Cite book|last=Tussey|first=William Glenn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zhZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22henderson+adams%22+senator|title=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|date=1992|publisher=Halcyon House|language=en}}