George Adams Post

George Adams Post (September 1, 1854 – October 31, 1925) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Early life

George Adams Post was born in Cuba, New York. He pursued an academic course at Oswego Academy. He moved to Susquehanna Depot, Pennsylvania. He was secretary of the motive power department of the Erie Railway. He was elected burgess in February 1877 and served one year. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Montrose, Pennsylvania. He was one of the owners and editors of the Montrose Democrat from 1883 to 1889.

Career

Post was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress. He was a delegate to the 1884 Democratic National Convention. He served as chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1885. He moved to New York City in 1889, and engaged as a writer for the New York World. He was engaged in the manufacture of railway equipment in 1892 and served as vice president and later president of the Standard Coupler Company. He was the founder and president of the Railway Business Association, and served as chairman of the railroad committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce. He died in Somerville, New Jersey, in 1925. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery in Oswego, New York.

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George Adams (businessman)

George Adams (14 March 1839 – 23 September 1904) was an Australian publican and lottery promoter best known as the founder of Tattersall's.

Life

Adams was born in Redhill in the parish of Sandon, Hertfordshire, England. He was the fourth son of William Adams, farm labourer, and his wife Martha, née Gilbey. The family emigrated to Australia and arrived on 28 May 1855.

Adams started as a gold miner in Kanoona, Queensland before working on sheep stations in New South Wales and setting up a stock dealer and butcher in Goulburn. In 1875, he swapped the trade of meat to the trade of liquor and purchased the licence to the Steam Packet Hotel in Kiama on the New South Wales south coast. He frequented the Tattersall's Club in Sydney and was a good mixer and 'a man with friends'. Three of his friends, Bill Archer, George Hill and George Loseby, purchased the O'Brien Hotel, the home of the Tattersall's club and told Adams to 'pay when you can'.

Within ten years, Adams was a wealthy man with the 'Tin Bar' replaced by the 'Marble Bar' at the O'Brien Hotel for £32,000 pounds. Tattersall's Club members subscribed to sweepstakes run on race meetings throughout Australia and eventually Adams began to include his Hotel regulars and in 1881 he ran the first public Tattersall's sweep on the Sydney Cup.

George Adams (American football)

George Wallace Adams (born December 22, 1962 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a former professional American football running back.

Adams played college football at Kentucky and was a first round pick in the 1985 NFL Draft. Adams played in the National Football League for the New York Giants and the New England Patriots.

Adams son, Jamal Adams, plays safety at Louisiana State University.

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