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He took a leading role in the First African and Ebenezer Baptist Churches in Richmond, interested himself in the colonization movement, and served after the war as an officer in Black labor unions. John H. On July 26, , he married Anna Boyd. Their two sons both died in infancy and she died on May 29, Adams was one of thirty-three African American Republicans who represented the ward on the Richmond City Council between and His tenure in office coincided with the peak of Black political power in post-Reconstruction Richmond.

Elected to the common council for a two-year term in , Adams was one of only six Black citizens appointed to the school committee during this period. With his colleagues, as a councillor and subsequently as an alderman — , he won improvements in neighborhood schools, streets, and lighting, but he failed to gain a park, an armory, and other goals of ward residents.

The register described him as a resident of New Haven, Connecticut, and they may have resided there for a time before settling in Danville, where Adams worked as a plasterer for the Charles Orchard Company. Of their two children, only a son survived childhood. Adams retired about and returned to Richmond. Encyclopedia Virginia Grady Ave.

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