John T. Adams, of Orange, is one of the ablest members of the Southeast Texas bar. He was admitted to the bar before he was twenty-one, having had his disability as minor removed by the district court at Jasper, which was his hometown. He moved to Orange and began practice there, was elected county attorney, serving four years, and on retiring from the office in 1898 began practice. He was appointed to fill the vacancy in the office of county judge caused by the death of the late Judge Wingate and served until the November election of 1908. He was not a candidate for election to the office. He was elected from the Twenty-second district of Jefferson and Orange counties and served one legislative session as representative in 1907. He has a large general practice and is also one of the local attorneys for the Orange Lumber Company.

Mr. Adams was born in Jasper, Jasper County, April 5, 1874. His father, R. F. Adams, who is still living in Jasper, was born in Georgia, but was reared in Jasper County, and has been a successful farmer and Stockraiser. The mother, whose maiden name was Mary E. Goodman, was born in Florida, but was also reared in Jasper County, and she died in 1895.

Mr. Adams received most of his education in the Southeast Texas Vale and Female College at Jasper, and then began the study of law in the office of the late Senator K. B. Seale, of Jasper. He is a Democrat in politics, a member of the Methodist church, and affiliates with Madison Lodge, No. 126, A. F. & A. M., with Orange Lodge, No. 284, B. P. 0. E., and with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married, in 1899, Miss Mary Thomas. She was born in Wales. Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910