US Congressman, Lawyer. He was a United States Representative from the State of Maine. He was born in Pownalborough, Massachusetts, now Dresden, Maine, on December 8, 1787. He was educated locally and pursued classical studies with private tutors. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced his practice of law in Bloomfield, Maine, shortly thereafter. He relocated to Skowhegan, Maine, in 1817, and then to Norridgewock, Maine, in 1821. He then served as the Prosecuting Attorney of Somerset County, Maine, from 1811 to 1823. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829), on March 4, 1823. A Member of the Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican Party, he then served two terms representing Maine's 7th District (Eighteenth Congress and Nineteenth Congress), as an At-Large Delegate in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1827. He was not a Candidate for reelection for renomination in 1826. Following his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Samuel Butman (1788-1864), on March 4, 1827. After leaving the United States Congress, he retired from politics and moved back to his native Skowhegan, Maine, in 1827, where he resumed his practice of law. He returned to politics briefly shortly thereafter and served a term as a Member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1829, before once again returning to his practice of law and other pursuits until his death. He passed away in Skowhegan, Maine, on November 1, 1860, at the age of 72, and he was buried in Southside Cemetery (also known as Bloomfield Cemetery), in Skowhegan, Maine. He was married to Lucy Kidder (-1851), with whom had a daughter named Elizabeth Lucy Kidder Adams (1819-1892). His wife Lucy passed away in Skowhegan, Maine on August 21, 1851, and his daughter Elizabeth passed away in Skowhegan, Maine, on August 16, 1892, at the age of 73, and they are also both buried together in Southside Cemetery (also known as Bloomfield Cemetery), in Skowhegan, Maine.