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 William Charles Adamson - Carrollton, GA Posted by:  YoSam.
N 33° 34.807 W 085° 04.824
16S E 678151 N 3717252
Congressman, Justice of the Customs Court....
Waymark Code: WM111D2
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/29/2019
Views: 2
County of tomb: Carroll County
Location of tomb: Alabama St., City Cemetery, Carrollton
Mausoleum erected 1929
Text on Mausoleum: WILLIAM CHARLES ADAMSON
BORN: BOWDEN, GEORGIA
AUGUST 13, 1854
DIED: NEW YORK CITY
JANUARY 3, 1929
GRADUATED FROM BOWDEN COLLEGE
ADMITTED TO THE BAR AT CARROLLTON, 1876
MARRIED MINNA REESE
JANUARY 29, 1885
MARRIED MRS. ELLEN ZELLERS CAMP
JANUARY 1, 1917
JUDGE OF CITY COURT OF CARROLLTON
1880 - 1889
ELECTED TO CONGRESS FROM THE
FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF
GEORGIA, 1896-1917
SERVED EIGHT YEARS OF THIS TIME,
INCLUDING THE FIRST THREE YEARS
OF THE WORLD WAR, AS CHAIRMAN
OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE
AND FOREIGN COMMERCE OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
RESIGNED FROM CONGRESS, DECEMBER
18, 1917, TO ACCEPT APPOINTMENT
FROM PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
AS ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS COURT.
RETIRED JANUARY 20, 1928.He was a faithful friend, and noble and
upright jurist, and a great statesman.
Description:
"US Congressman. He was elected as a Democrat to represent Georgia's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1897 to 1917. His most significant piece of legislation was the Adamson Act, which proposed an 8 hour workday and overtime pay for railway employees. President Woodrow Wilson signed it into law on September 3, 1916. Although it was an emergency bill intended to head off a crippling railroad strike, the legal precedent it set eventually became standard for all American workers and helped improve their quality of life. Adamson was born in Bowdon, Georgia, and graduated from Bowdon College in 1874. Settling in Carrollton, Georgia in 1876, he was admitted to the bar and maintained a law practice there for over 50 years. He was a delegate to the 1892 Democratic National Convention but was essentially an obscure small town lawyer and jurist until 1896, when he was elected to the Fifty-fifth and ten succeeding Congresses. During his last four terms he was chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. In 1917 Adamson resigned from Congress to accept an appointment to the Board of United States General Appraisers (now the United States Customs Court), a post he held until 1928. He then returned to his legal practice in Carrollton and died while on a business trip to New York City." ~ Bio by: Bobb Edwards on Find-A-Grave
Date of birth: 08/13/1854
Date of death: 01/03/1929
Area of notoriety: Politics
Marker Type: Tomb (above ground)
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: daylight to dusk
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
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