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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WashingtonBrockman (Brock) ADAMS
(1927-2004)
Senate Years of Service:
1987-1993Party: DemocratADAMS, Brockman (Brock), a
Representative and a Senator from Washington; born in Atlanta, Ga.,
on January 13, 1927; attended the public schools in Portland,
Oreg.; graduated, University of Washington, Seattle 1949;
graduated, Harvard Law School 1952; served in the United States
Navy 1944-1946; admitted to the Washington State bar in 1952 and
began practice in Seattle; taught law, American Institute of
Banking 1954-1960; United States attorney for the Western District
of Washington 1961-1964; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth
and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from January 3,
1965, until his resignation on January 22, 1977; chairman,
Committee on the Budget (Ninety-fourth Congress); Secretary of
Transportation in the Cabinet of President Jimmy Carter 1977-1979;
resumed the practice of law in Washington State; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1986, and served from
January 3, 1987, to January 3, 1993; was not a candidate for
reelection in 1992; was a resident of Stevensville, Md., until his
death, due to complications of Parkinson’s disease, on
September 10, 2004; interment in Broad Creek Cemetery in
Stevensville.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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