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'''Llewelyn Sherman Adams''' (January 8, 1899 – October 27, 1986) was an American businessman and politician, best known as [[White House Chief of Staff]] for President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], the culmination of an 18-year political career that also included a stint as the 67th [[governor of New Hampshire]]. He lost his White House position in a scandal when he accepted an expensive [[vicuña wool|vicuña]] coat.<ref>Eleanora W. Schoenebaum, ed., ''Political Profiles: The Eisenhower Years'' (1977), pp. 4–7.</ref>

Born in [[East Dover, Vermont]] to [[grocer]] Clyde H. Adams and Winnie Marion Sherman,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://doi-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0700418 |title=Adams, Sherman Llewelyn |last=Birkner |first=Michael J. |website=American National Biography |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0700418 |access-date=August 26, 2022}}</ref> Adams was educated in public schools in [[Providence, Rhode Island]], graduating from [[Hope High School (Rhode Island)|Hope High School]]. He received an undergraduate degree from [[Dartmouth College]] (1920), having taken time off briefly for a six-month [[World War I]] stint in the [[United States Marine Corps]]. While at Dartmouth, Adams helped found Cabin and Trail,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://outdoors.dartmouth.edu/doc/history.html | title=History of the DOC }}</ref> Dartmouth's influential hiking club, and was a member of the New Hampshire Alpha chapter of the [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon]] fraternity.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dartmouth College Aegis|year=1920|publisher=Dartmouth College|location=Hanover, NH|page=237}}</ref> He then went into the lumber business, first in [[Mount Holly, Vermont|Healdville, Vermont]] (1921), then to a combined lumber and paper business in [[Lincoln, New Hampshire]]. He also was involved in banking.

When Adams took office as governor, New Hampshire was suffering post-war recession. He called for frugality and thrift in both personal and state expenditures. Retirees were (and are) a significant part of New Hampshire's population; Adams called for increased state aid for the aged, and for legislation which would enable the state's [[senior citizen|senior]]s to qualify for [[Federal Old Age & Survivors Insurance]]. In 1950 he formed a Reorganization Committee to recommend changes in state operations, and he called for the legislature to act on the recommendations. It was during his time as Governor that the New Hampshire Right to Work law (which prevented people being forced to join unions) was repealed.

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