Billy Adams
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[edit] William H. Adams
William Herbert Adams, better known as Billy Adams, was born in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, on February 15, 1861. Billy moved to Alamosa, Colorado in 1878 where he was later elected to City Treasurer then Mayor of Alamosa and later as Conejos County commissioner. In 1886 he was elected to the State Legislature as a representative then elected to the State Senate in 1888 where he served until elected as governor of Colorado[1] in 1926, serving three terms as governor from 1927 - 1933.
In 1921, during his term as Colorado Senate Senator, Adams received approval on a bill that formed Alamosa State Normal School in Alamosa, Colorado. The college’s name was later changed to Adams State Teachers College in honor of its founder and finally to its present name Adams State College. Adams died on February 4, 1954, in Alamosa, Colorado at the age of ninety-two where he is buried.
Alva Adams (governor), Billy’s older brother, was also governor of Colorado, 1887 to 1889, 1897 - 1899 and 1905. Billy also had a nephew Alva B. Adams that was a United States Senator, 1923 until 1925 and from 1933 to 1941.
