W. C. Adams

Winfred Cooper "Chubby" Adams (born May 25, 1888) was an American politician in Mississippi.[1] He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1924 to 1926 and in the Mississippi Senate, including as President Pro Tempore.

Adams was born in Corinth, Mississippi. He was an officer during World War I.[2] He received a military pension.[3] He studied at Princeton for two years and received a law degree from the University of Mississippi. He married Mary E. Kirk and had four children, one of which, died from the Spanish Flu when she was 4 years old.[4]

His father owned the W. T. Adams Machine Company.[5] It burned in 1918.[6]

References
  1. "Princeton Alumni Weekly". Princeton University Press. October 27, 1932 – via Google Books.
  2. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=sta_leghb
  3. "Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress". 1934.
  4. "The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi". 1924.
  5. "Princeton Alumni Weekly". 1912.
  6. "Clipped from Jackson Daily News". Jackson Daily News. January 1918. p. 5.
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