The Biographical Dictionary of America/Adams, James Hopkins

ADAMS, James Hopkins, statesman, was born in South Carolina about 1811. At the age of twenty he was graduated from Yale college, and the following year was elected to the state senate. In 1855 he was chosen governor, and after his state had seceded he was one of the commissioners appointed to negotiate with the president regarding the disposal of the United States property in South Carolina. He died on his plantation near Columbia, S. C., July 27, 1861.