Alva B. Adams

Alva Blanchard Adams ( born October 29, 1875 in Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Colorado, † December 1, 1941 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. He represented as a Democratic assemblyman from 1923 to 1925 and from 1933 to 1941 the state of Colorado in the U.S. Senate.

Adams graduated studies at Phillips Academy ( completion 1893), Yale University (1896) and Columbia Law School ( 1899). His career as a lawyer began in 1909, when he was district attorney in Pueblo County in Colorado.

In World War I Adams served 1918-1919 in the rank of Major in the Judge Advocate General's department. In 1923 he moved as a successor to the late Samuel D. Nicholson in the U.S. Senate. He died in 1941 during his second term in Washington of a heart attack.

Was named after him the Alva B. Adams Tunnel, which runs beneath the Rocky Mountain National Park.