John A. M. Adair
John Alfred McDowell Adair (* December 22, 1864 in Portland, Jay County, Indiana, † October 5, 1938 ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1917 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
John Adair attended the public schools of his home, including the Portland High School. He then worked for some time in the trade. Between 1888 and 1890 he was employed by the city of Portland. He then worked until 1895 for the district administration of Jay County. After studying law and its made in 1895 admitted to the bar he began to work in Portland in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.
In the years 1902 and 1903 was Adair deputy in the House of Representatives from Indiana. In 1904 he became president of the First National Bank of Portland. In the congressional elections of 1906 he was in the eighth election district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George W. Cromer on March 4, 1907. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 five legislative sessions. From 1913 to 1917 he was Chairman of the Committee for the control of expenditures of the War Department. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified.
In 1916, John Adair gave up another Congress candidate. Instead, he ran for the governorship of Indiana, but was defeated by Republican James Goodrich. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked again in the banking industry. In 1924 he moved to the federal capital, Washington, where he was vice president of the company Southern Dairies Inc.. He continued in that role until 1931. Between 1933 and 1935 he was chairman of the Finance Service Co., Baltimore. Subsequently, he was until 1937 Vice President of Atlas Truck Corporation in Fairhaven (Massachusetts ). Since 1937, John Adair served as director of Artloom Corporation in Philadelphia. He died on October 5, 1938 in his hometown of Portland, where he was also buried.