Henderson Adams

Henderson Adams was an American politician. He was a state senator who also served as Auditor of North Carolina from 1868 until 1873.[1] Serving during the Reconstruction era, he was a Republican.

He was a peace and convention advocate who was also reputed to have been a possible founder of the Heroes of America group.[2][3]

An act of the U.S. Congress relieved Adams of "disabilities" resulting from his role in serving the Confederacy during the American Civil War.[4] He was elected to the state senate from Davidson County, North Carolina, in 1862.[5]

  1. ^ "History of the Office". Office of the State Auditor. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  2. ^ Auman, William T. (2014). Civil War in the North Carolina Quaker Belt: The Confederate Campaign Against Peace Agitators, Deserters and Draft Dodgers. McFarland. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-7864-7663-3.
  3. ^ Auman, William T.; Scarboro, David D. (1981). "The Heroes of America in Civil War North Carolina". The North Carolina Historical Review. 58 (4): 336. ISSN 0029-2494. JSTOR 23538671.
  4. ^ United States Congress (1868). The Congressional Globe. Blair & Rives. p. 579.
  5. ^ Tussey, William Glenn (1992). Gersham Tussey and His Kin: A History of the North Carolina Branch of the Tussey Family and Their Descent from New Sweden, the Swedish Colony Founded in the Delaware Valley, 1638. Halcyon House.