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American politician
John Alfred McDowell Adair
(December 22, 1864
[1]
? October 5, 1938
[2]
) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a
U.S. Representative
from
Indiana
from 1907 to 1917.
Biography
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Born in
Portland, Indiana
,
[1]
Adair attended the public schools and Portland High School
[2]
where he engaged in mercantile pursuits and served as clerk of the city of Portland 1888?1890.
He also served as clerk of Jay County 1890-1895 where he studied law. Adair was
admitted to the bar
in 1895 and commenced practice in
Portland, Indiana
.
He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1902 and 1903. During this time, he engaged in banking, being elected president of the First National Bank of Portland in 1904.
[2]
Congress
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Adair was elected as a
Democrat
to the
Sixtieth
[1]
and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907 ? March 3, 1917).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of War
(
Sixty-third
and
Sixty-fourth
Congresses). However, he did not seek renomination in 1916, but was an unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Governor of Indiana.
Later career and death
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Afterward, he resumed the banking business in
Portland, Indiana
. Later, he moved to
Washington, D.C.
, in 1924 and served as vice president of Southern Dairies (Inc.) until 1931.
He also served as chairman of the board of the Finance Service Co., in
Baltimore, Maryland
from 1933 to 1935, and served as vice president of the Atlas Tack Corporation in
Fairhaven, Massachusetts
from 1935 to 1937. Adair also served as director of the Artloom Corporation,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, in 1937.
[2]
He died in
Portland, Indiana
,
[2]
October 5, 1938.
References
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This article incorporates
public domain material
from the
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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