Pueblo-Rio Grande County CO Archives Biographies.....Adams, Alva Blanchard 1875 - 1941
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ADAMS, Alva Blanchard, 1875 - 1941)
Senate Years of Service: 1923-1924; 1933-1941 
Party: Democrat; Democrat 

ADAMS, Alva Blanchard, a Senator from Colorado; born in Del Norte, Rio Grande
County, Colo., October 29, 1875; attended the common schools; graduated from
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1893; graduated from Yale University in
1896 and from Columbia Law School in 1899; admitted to the bar in 1899 and
commenced practice in Pueblo, Colo.; county attorney of Pueblo County 1909-1911;
member of the charter convention of Pueblo in 1911; regent of the State
University of Colorado 1911 and 1912; city attorney of Pueblo 1911-1915; during
the First World War served as major in the Judge Advocate General’s Department
1918-1919; appointed on May 17, 1923, as a Democrat to the United States Senate
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel D. Nicholson and served from
May 17, 1923, to November 30, 1924, when a successor was elected and qualified;
not a candidate for the special election to fill remainder of term, but was an
unsuccessful candidate for the 1924 general election; resumed the practice of
law; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1932; reelected in
1938, and served from March 4, 1933, until his death; chairman, Committee on
Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses),
Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-seventh
Congresses); died in Washington, D.C., due to heart attack, on December 1, 1941;
interment in Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Colorado. 

Bibliography
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Alva B. Adams. 77th Cong., 2nd sess., 1942.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1944.

Rathgeber, Harold. "The Public Life of Alva Adams." Master’s thesis, University
of Denver, 1954.

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