Stephen Adams (17 October 1807 – 1 May 1857) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MS) from 4 March 1845 to 3 March 1847, succeeding William H. Hammett, and a US Senator from 17 March 1852 to 4 March 1857, succeeding John J. McRae and preceding Jefferson Davis.
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Stephen Adams was born in Pendleton, South Carolina in 1807, and he moved with his parents to Franklin County, Tennessee in 1812, becoming a lawyer in 1829 and serving in the State Senate from 1833 to 1834. He moved to Aberdeen, Mississippi in 1834 and became a lawyer, circuit court judge, and a member of the state legislature, and he later returned to Tennessee to become a lawyer in Memphis, where he died in 1857.