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https://cdn.scencyclopedia.org/sce/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14142025/Portrait_of_Governor_James_Hopkins_Adams_of_South_Carolina.jpg358448Governor. Born on March 15, 1812, in Richland District, Adams was the son of Henry Walker Adams, a prominent cotton planter, and Mary Howell Hart Goodwyn. He attended Minervaville Academy in Richland before being sent to Partridge Military Academy in Middleton, Connecticut, in 1826. Graduating from Yale in 1831, Adams returned to South Carolina and […]