Adam M. Byrd

Adam Monroe Byrd ( born July 6, 1859 Sumter County, Alabama, † June 21, 1912 in Hot Springs, Arkansas ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1911 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Adam Byrd came at an early age in the Neshoba County, Mississippi. There he attended the elementary schools and the Cooper Institute in Daleville. After studying law at the Law Faculty of the Cumberland University in Lebanon (Tennessee ) and its made ​​in 1885 admitted to the bar he began in Philadelphia ( Mississippi) to work in his new profession. Between 1887 and 1889 he was a School Board in Neshoba County.

Politically, Byrd member of the Democratic Party. Between 1889 and 1896 he was a member of the Senate of Mississippi, in 1896 and 1897 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the State. In 1897, Byrd was district attorney for the tenth judicial district for a short time before he became a judge in the Sixth Judicial District. This office he held until 1903.

1902 Byrd was selected in the fifth district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he took over from the March 4, 1903 Frank A. McLain, who moved into seventh constituency. After three elections Byrd was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 a total of four legislative sessions. In 1910, he was not nominated by his party for another term. After Byrd again worked as a lawyer in Philadelphia. Adams died in June 1912 in Hot Springs and was buried in Philadelphia.

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