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1. Alma Adams
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 12th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
November 4, 2014
Preceded by Mel Watt
Member of the
North Carolina House of Representatives
from the 58th district
In office
1994 – November 12, 2014
Preceded by Herman Gist
Succeeded by Ralph C. Johnson[1]
Personal details
Born Alma Shealey
May 27, 1946
High Point, North Carolina, U.S.
Political
party
Democratic
Residence Greensboro, North Carolina
Alma Adams
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alma Shealey Adams (born May 27, 1946) is an American
politician who represents North Carolina's 12th congressional
district in the United States House of Representatives. A
Democrat, Adams served as a member of the North Carolina
General Assembly representing the state's 58th House district
in Guilford County from her appointment in April 1994 until
her election to Congress. A college administrator and art
professor from Greensboro, Adams is known for the many
distinctive hats that she wears (she claims to own 900).[3]
Adams won the 2014 special election in North Carolina's 12th
congressional district to fill the vacancy created by the
resignation of Mel Watt, thus becoming the 100th woman
serving in the 113th Congress. She won election to a full
two-year term at the same time.[4][5]
Contents
1 Early life and education
2 Political career
2.1 State legislature
2.2 Congress
2.2.1 Adams' residency questioned
3 Other work
4 Personal life
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Early life and education
Adams was born on May 27, 1946 in High Point, North
Carolina. Her parents were Benjamin Shealey and the former
Mattie Stokes. She graduated from West Side High School in
Newark, New Jersey, in 1964. Adams received her B.S.
degree in 1969 and her M.S. degree in 1972, both from North
Carolina A&T University and both in Art Education. She
continued her studies to receive her Ph.D. in Art
Education/Multicultural Education from Ohio State
University in 1981.[6][7]
Political career
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2. Alma mater North Carolina A&T State
University, Ohio State University
Profession Professor, college administrator
Religion Baptist[2]
Website almaadamsforcongress.com
(http://almaadamsforcongress.com/)
State legislature
Adams was previously a member of the Greensboro City
School Board from 1984 to 1986 and a Greensboro City
Council member from 1987 until her appointment to the
House seat in 1994.[6][8]
She was originally appointed to the North Carolina House
District 26 seat in 1994 to replace Herman Gist, who died in
office. The district is located in Guilford County and includes most of southeastern Greensboro. She had
previously already announced that she was going to challenge Gist for that seat in the Democratic primary that
year.[8] After being appointed to the seat, Adams faced conservative businessman and retired engineer O. C.
Stafford in the Democratic primary. Stafford was a perennial candidate who had run for various offices,
sometimes as a Democrat and other times as a Republican. He previously had challenged Gist as a Republican in
the 1992 general election. In 1994, running as a Democrat,[9] he was defeated by Adams in the primary.
Adams went on to win a full term in the general election, beating Republican Roger G. Coffer. She faced a
rematch with Stafford in the general elections of 1996 and 1998 when Stafford ran as a Republican.[10] Adams
won both elections.[11][12] In 2000 Adams did not have an opponent in the Democratic primary; she defeated
Republican real estate broker Jim Rumley in the general election.[13][14]
In 2002, after redistricting, Adams' seat was changed from the 26th district to the 58th district. Her only
challenger that year was Libertarian lawyer David Williams, who withdrew from the race in October because he
was moving to Colorado.[15] His name still appeared on the ballot, but Adams won with nearly 86% of the
vote.[16]
Adams has been challenged for her seat for many years by Republican legal assistant and party activist Olga
Morgan Wright.[17] Wright has run for the seat held by Adams in nearly every election since 2004. Adams
defeated Wright and Libertarian challenger Walter Sperko with 66% of the vote in 2004.[18] In the next election
Adams had no competition in the primary; she defeated Wright in the general election 66%–34%.[19] In 2008,
the year that Barack Obama was elected president, Democratic voters had a high rate of participation, and
Adams defeated Wright 71.35%–28.65%[20]
In 2008, Adams was elected to a second term as chair of the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus.[21]
She was vice-chair of the Government Committee in the state House.[22] Previously she was chair of the
Appropriations Committee as well as vice-chair of the Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Committee.[6]
In 2010, Adams was challenged in the Democratic primary by Ralph C. Johnson. She defeated Johnson with
76.56% of the vote.[23] Adams next faced Republican Darin H. Thomas in the general election, beating him
63.15%–36.85%.[24] In 2012, Adams did not have any primary opposition and defeated Olga Wright in the
general election by an even wider margin than 2008, 79.86%–20.14%.[25]
Congress
In April 2013, Mel Watt, the only congressman to have served the 12th District since its creation in 1993, was
appointed as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Adams was one of the first to announce that if
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3. Watt were confirmed, she would run in the ensuing special election. After Watt was confirmed in December,
Adams formally filed paperwork to run in both the Democratic primary for a full two-year term in the 114th
Congress and the special election for the balance of Watt's 11th term.[26]
Analysts thought that Adams was at a geographic disadvantage in the five-way primary for both the special and
regular elections (held on the same day). She is from Greensboro, but the bulk of the district's population is in
Charlotte. The three Charlotteans in the race split that region's vote; and Adams won both primaries with
approximately 44 percent of the vote, a few thousand votes over the 40 percent threshold needed to avoid a
runoff. She faced Republican Vince Coakley, a former television and radio broadcaster from Matthews, in both
the general and special elections, which were held on the same day in November. The 12th was a heavily
Democratic district with a majority-black voting population and a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+26, and
Adams was overwhelmingly favored in the general election. She won both handily.
Adams is the second woman of color to represent North Carolina in the House. The first was Eva Clayton, who
represented much of eastern North Carolina from 1992 to 2002.
In the 2016 presidential election, Adams endorsed Hillary Clinton and pledged her support as a
superdelegate.[27]
Adams decided not to attend the January 2017 inauguration of Donald Trump.
Adams' residency questioned
A court-ordered redistricting in 2016 made the 12th somewhat more compact. It now comprised nearly all of
Mecklenburg County, home to Charlotte. Adams' home in Greensboro was drawn into the 13th district. Adams
had already filed for a second full term, but announced she would move to Charlotte.[28] She claims a home in
Charlotte's Fourth Ward neighborhood owned by Dr. Mary Gaffney,[29] one of her prominent supporters,[30] as
her official residence in the district. Both Gaffney and Adams maintain active voter registrations at that
address.[31] However, on May 31, WBTV in Charlotte reported that Adams filed campaign finance documents
listing her longtime home in Greensboro as her residence, and also spends most weekends in her Greensboro
home. The WBTV report also revealed that Adams had scrubbed all references to her service as a local official
in Greensboro from her campaign website, though her biography on her campaign's Facebook page still contains
references to that service.[32] When a WBTV reporter approached Adams at her home in Greensboro, she
backed out of her driveway and drove away and was later found hiding out in her car near the entrance to her
neighborhood. When the reporter attempted to confront her, she drove away a second time.[33] While members
of Congress are only required to live in the state they represent, it has become a strong convention that they live
in or close to the district they represent.
However, with seven Charlotteans splitting the vote, Adams won the primary with 42 percent. This all but
assured her of a second full term; due to Mecklenburg County's heavy swing to the Democrats in recent years,
the reconfigured 12th is no less Democratic than its predecessor.
Other work
Adams has been a professor of art at Bennett College in Greensboro, as well as the director of the Steel Hall Art
Gallery.[6] In 1990, Adams helped co-found, with Eva Hamlin Miller, the African American Atelier, an
organization established to advance awareness and appreciation for visual arts and cultures of African
Americans.[34]
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4. She is the chairperson of the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus Foundation, which gives scholarships to
students who are attending one of North Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities.[35]
Personal life
Adams is divorced and has two children.[6][7] She is well noted for the many distinctive hats that she wears.[36]
See also
List of African-American United States Representatives
References
"NC SBE Contest Results". Retrieved 12 December 2016.1.
"Members of Congress: Religious Affiliations". Pew Research Center. January 5, 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2016.2.
"U.S. Rep. Alma Adams To Be Sworn Into Office". Retrieved 12 December 2016.3.
"Women poised to break glass ceiling on Election Day". Retrieved 12 December 2016.4.
"Milestone: Alma Adams Victory Means 100 Women in Congress" (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-
news/milestone-alma-adams-victory-means-100-women-congress-n241596), NBCNews.com
5.
The North Carolina Manual 2009-2010. Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Secretary of State. 2009. p. 365.
Retrieved January 18, 2013.
6.
Beckwith, Ryan Teague. "Alma Adams". Raleigh News & Observer. Retrieved June 18, 2012.7.
Barstow, Thomas A. (March 31, 1994). "Alma Adams Gets Gist's Seat". Greensboro News & Record.8.
"O. C. Stafford: Running as a Democrat". Greensboro News and Record. January 27, 1994. p. B8.9.
Alexander, Lex (October 14, 1998). "Rematch Set for District 26". Greensboro News and Record. p. B1.10.
"NC House" (PDF). 1996 General Election Results. North Carolina State Board of Elections. Retrieved January 22,
2013.
11.
"House 26" (PDF). 1998 General Election Results. North Carolina State Board of Elections. Retrieved January 22,
2013.
12.
"A Key Year in the House". Greensboro News and Record. October 30, 2000. p. A8.13.
"House District 26" (PDF). 2000 General Election Results. North Carolina State Board of Elections. Retrieved
January 19, 2013.
14.
"Greensboro Lawyer is Dropping Out of House Race". Greensboro News and Record. October 9, 2002. p. B2.15.
"2002 General Election Results" (PDF). North Carolina State Board of Elections. Retrieved January 19, 2013.16.
"Olga Wright Biography". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved January 19, 2013.17.
"2004 General Election Results" (PDF). North Carolina State Board of Elections. Retrieved January 19, 2013.18.
"2006 General Election Results" (PDF). North Carolina State Board of Elections. Retrieved January 119, 2013. Check
date values in: |access-date= (help)
19.
"2008 General Election". North Carolina State Board of Elections. Retrieved January 19, 2013.20.
"Adams to chair Black Caucus again" (http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome
/adams_to_chair_black_caucus_again), News & Observer
21.
"Committee Assignments 2013-2014". North Carolina General Assembly. Retrieved January 19, 2013.22.
"2010 Primary Results". North Carolina State Board of Elections. Retrieved January 19, 2013.23.
"2010 General Election". North Carolina State Board of Elections. Retrieved January 19, 2013.24.
"2012 General Election Results". North Carolina State Board of Elections. Retrieved January 19, 2013.25.
Cahn, Emily. "Roll Call: Watt Confirmation Kicks Off North Carolina Special Election". Atr.rollcall.com. Retrieved
December 16, 2013.
26.
"The 2016 Endorsement Primary". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved June 6, 2016.27.
"Rep. Alma Adams says she'll move to Charlotte". Retrieved 12 December 2016.28.
"Real Estate Lookup". Retrieved 12 December 2016.29.
"Sign our letter in support of Alma". Retrieved 12 December 2016.30.
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5. "NC Public Voter Search". Retrieved 12 December 2016.31.
Ochsner, Nick. Questions raised over Alma Adams' claim she moved to Charlotte (http://www.wbtv.com/story
/32102989/questions-raised-over-alma-adams-claim-she-moved-to-charlotte). WBTV, 2016-05-31.
32.
Ochsner, Nick. [1] (http://www.wbtv.com/clip/12475594/reporters-notebook-alma-adams). WBTV, 2016-05-31.33.
"Background". African American Atelier. Retrieved May 28, 2014.34.
"About the NCLBCF". NC Legislative Black Caucus Foundation. Retrieved May 28, 2014.35.
Hairston, Otis L., Jr (2003). Black America Series: Greensboro, North Carolina. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia
Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-1525-6.
36.
External links
Official US House website (http://adams.house.gov/)
Alma Adams for Congress (http://almaadamsforcongress.com/)
Civil Rights Greensboro (http://library.uncg.edu/dp/crg/personBio.aspx?c=2)
Biography (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000370) at the Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress
Profile (https://www.votesmart.org/candidate/5935) at Project Vote Smart
Financial information (federal office) (http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer
/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?&tabIndex=1&candidateCommitteeId=H4NC12100) at the Federal
Election Commission
Legislation sponsored (https://www.congress.gov/member/alma-adams/2201) at The Library of Congress
Alma Adams (http://dmoztools.net/Regional/North_America/United_States/North_Carolina
/Society_and_Culture/Politics/Candidates_and_Campaigns/US_House/Congressional_District_12
/Alma_Adams) at DMOZ
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Mel Watt
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 12th congressional
district
November 4, 2014 – present
Incumbent
United States order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by
Bradley Byrne
R-Alabama
United States Representatives by seniority
320th
Succeeded by
Dave Brat
R-Virginia
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