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Cayton Bidwell Adam, Sr., known as Bidwell Adam (January 12, 1894 – December 20, 1982), was an attorney from Gulfport, Mississippi, who served as his state's 15th lieutenant governor from 1928 to 1932 during the last administration of Governor Theodore Bilbo. Adam was a fiery old-school political orator who could stir up the Democratic party faithful though on at least two occasions, he endorsed Republican candidates for U.S. President. ==Family background== Cayton (some sources erroneously state his given name as "Clayton") Bidwell (his preferred name of address) Adam (some sources misspell his name as "Adams") was born in Mobile, Alabama, but reared on the Mississippi Gulf Coast at Pass Christian (pronounced CHRIS TEE ANN) east of New Orleans, Louisiana.〔 There his father, Emile J. Adam, Sr. (1864-1942), was for a time the mayor and also the editor of ''The Coastal Beacon'', later the ''Tarpon-Beacon'', the newspaper of western Harrison County. Adam's older brother, Emile J. Adam, Jr. (1891-1968), was a lawyer, alderman, and the city attorney for Pass Christian.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=City of Pass Christian: The Inn at the Pass )〕 Adam's mother was the former Mattie G. Capers (1866-1954).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Emile Adam, Sr. )〕 Adam graduated from Pass Christian High School and then in 1913, at the age of nineteen, from Millsaps College in the state capital of Jackson. There he received legal training to pass the state bar examination. He served as a private in the United States Army in France during World War I. Adam practiced law in Gulfport for many years and served on the Mississippi Bar Commission.〔 On February 25, 1920, he married the former Edna Quick (1900-1988), who was an alternate delegate to the 1928 Democratic National Convention, which met in Houston, Texas, to assemble the unsuccessful Smith-Robinson ticket.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mrs. Bidwell Adam )〕 The couple had three sons, Cayton Bidwell Adam, Jr. (1922-1963), Robert Borden Adam, Sr. (1925-1968), and Jack C. Adam〔 (1932-2007). In January 1968, Robert Adam, Sr., a lawyer and World War II veteran, and Robert's two daughters, Mary Canon "Nan" Adam (1949-1968) and Margaret "Peggy" Adam (1959-1968), perished in a house fire. Robert rescued his wife, Ann Bell Adam (1924-1968), who died five months later.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert Borden Adam, Sr. )〕 Bidwell Adam's grandson, Robert B. "Robin" Adam, Jr. (1947-2001), a former long-term resident of California, died at the age of fifty-four in an automobile accident in Phoenix, Arizona.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert B. Adam, Jr. )〕 Jack Capers Adam, the youngest son of Bidwell and Edna Adam, was stricken with asthma as a boy and sent from Pass Christian, to Phoenix, Arizona, where he was educated at the Southern Arizona School for Boys and became thereafter an Episcopal priest. He worked to establish St. Jude's Ranch for Children in Boulder City, Nevada, with financial help from such luminaries as the comedians Bob Hope and Jack Benny and the newspaper publisher Hank Greenspun. Known as "Father Jack", he subsequently left the Episcopal Church because of his opposition to the ordination of women, a policy implemented in 1976. He then became Roman Catholic. He relocated to Mesa, Arizona, where he operated a jewelry store for many years and continued mostly anonymous contributions to St. Jude's Ranch and youth causes. He died three days before his 75th birthday and is interred at Boulder City Cemetery. Jack Adam was survived by his wife of fifty-seven years, Ranelle Adam, and a daughter, Nancy A. Porter, both of Boulder City. A second daughter as well as his two brothers predeceased him.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jack Capers Adam (1932-2007), October 9, 2007 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bidwell Adam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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