Donald G. Adams | University Libraries

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Donald G. Adams was born in 1938 in Jasper, Texas, to county judge T. Gilbert Adams and Dess Hart Adams. He attended Baylor College from 1957 to 1963, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Legal guidelines. After his graduation, Adams took up authorized exercise in Lufkin for two decades ahead of returning to Jasper and forming a lawful partnership with his father.

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Adams introduced his candidacy for the Texas Property of Representatives in 1968. Soon after his nomination by the Democratic Social gathering, Adams was elected unopposed. As the Representative from District 7, Adams represented Hardin, Jasper, Newton, and Tyler counties. During his time in the Texas Home, Adams served on various committees which include Agriculture, Counties, Legal Legislation, Criminal Jurisprudence, Insurance policies, Psychological Health and Psychological Retardation, Motor Transportation, and Imported Fireplace Ant Infestation. Adams largely averted the political fallout that accompanied the Sharpstown Lender scandal that ensnared Governor Preston Smith, Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, and Household Speaker Gus Mutscher.

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In 1972, Adams announced his candidacy for the Texas Senate, District 3. Adams endured a a bit contentious primary fight with J.C. Stallings, a radio station owner from Nacogdoches who tried to enjoy up Adams’s connections to the ousted Mutscher and the Sharpstown scandal. Irrespective, Adams obtained his party’s nomination and ran unopposed in the standard election. Adams served in the Texas Senate from 1973 to 1977, symbolizing Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Henderson, Jasper, Kaufman, Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, and Tyler Counties. Through his senatorial job, he was a member of the Administration, Finance, Intergovernmental Relations, and Jurisprudence Committees in addition to numerous subcommittees and temporary topical committees. In 1974, Adams served as a delegate to the Texas Condition Constitution Conference. In 1977, Adams was elected by the Senate as President Pro Tempore ad Interim for the 65th Legislature.

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In 1978, Adams resigned from his Senate seat to become Chief Legal Counsel for the Governor of Texas. He was appointed to the Texas Industrial Fee (TIC) in October of the identical calendar year, was elected TIC Chairman in 1979, and was appointed to a complete 6-calendar year term on the Fee in 1983.

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Adams is also a member of different group organizations which include Kiwanis Club, the Texas Bar Association, and Chamber of Commerce. Don and his wife, Linda Cullum Adams, have a few small children: Don Jr., Debra, and Dinah.

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The Selection

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The Donald G. Adams papers consist of components related to Adams’s political profession in the Texas Household of Representatives (61st and 62nd legislatures) and Texas Senate (63rd-65th legislatures). Incorporated are correspondence amongst associates of govt and legislative constituents, copies of laws, clippings, and campaign components. Outlying components give more context to Adams’s private life though performing in point out authorities.

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Adams’s occupation coincided with a tumultuous sequence of situations in Texas history. The Sharpstown Banking scandal turned a salient situation in the 1972 election, top to popular disruption of the established legislative electric power construction and creating a extra liberal legislature as quite a few moderates grew to become tarnished by their connections to this financial laws/inventory fraud scandal. Adams’s senate operate skirted this issue quite correctly in spite of his opponent J.C. Stallings’s reliable initiatives to utilize the scandal against Adams in equally print and radio adverts. Stallings’s use of his personally-owned radio stations in the campaign became a component of the depiction of Stallings as an unscrupulous and litigious personal, which characterizes Adams’s tactic to the problem. Immediately after defeating Stallings in the main, Adams confronted no opposition in the general election.

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Adams’s Senate profession also coincided with the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1974. Components related to the Texas Structure seem all over Adams’s job. In addition to serving as an elected delegate at the convention, Adams proposed numerous amendments to the Constitution in the legislature and voted on other amendments released in legislative classes. Along with constitutional amendments, Adams labored to amend the Texas Felony Code and Relatives Code, specifically as it related to parental rights of illegitimate kids and foster households. In addition to these sweeping legislative troubles, Adams was also a dependable advocate for both volunteer and professional firefighters, proposing laws to increase their financial standing.

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When in the legislature, Adams was a member of several committees and served as chairman of the Senate Administration Committee in the 64th and 65th sessions. Irrespective of his diversified and regular committee membership, the only committees represented in this collection are the Administration, Jurisprudence, Intergovernmental Relations, and Counties Committees. Adams was a member of the Dwelling Counties Committee for the duration of the 62nd Legislature.

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Adams diligently responded to constituent correspondence and appeared at neighborhood events when his schedule permitted it. This selection consists of letters associated to a broad range of legislative, group, and personal concerns as well as a number of Adams’s responses.

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The collection measures 37 linear ft.

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