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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ColoradoADAMS, Alva Blanchard
(1875—1941)
Senate Years of Service:
1923-1924; 1933-1941
Party:
Democrat; Democrat
ADAMS, Alva Blanchard, a Senator from Colorado; born in Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Colo., October 29, 1875; attended the common schools; graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1893; graduated from Yale University in 1896 and from Columbia Law School in 1899; admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Pueblo, Colo.; county attorney of Pueblo County 1909-1911; member of the charter convention of Pueblo in 1911; regent of the State University of Colorado 1911 and 1912; city attorney of Pueblo 1911-1915; during the First World War served as major in the Judge Advocate General’s Department 1918-1919; appointed on May 17, 1923, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel D. Nicholson and served from May 17, 1923, to November 30, 1924, when a successor was elected and qualified; not a candidate for the special election to fill remainder of term, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the 1924 general election; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1932; reelected in 1938, and served from March 4, 1933, until his death; chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-seventh Congresses); died in Washington, D.C., due to heart attack, on December 1, 1941; interment in Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Colorado.
Bibliography
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Alva B. Adams
. 77th Cong., 2nd sess., 1942. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1944; Rathgeber, Harold. “The Public Life of Alva Adams.” Master’s thesis, University of Denver, 1954.
Rathgeber, Harold. “The Public Life of Alva Adams.” Master’s thesis, University of Denver, 1954.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and the Senate of United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Alva Blanchard Adams, Late a Senator from Colorado
. 77th Cong., 2d sess., 1942. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1944.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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