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Frank Adamson

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Frank Adamson (c. 1809–1887) was a state legislator who served in the South Carolina House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era, from 1870 to 1874. Adamson was born in about 1809 in South Carolina as a slave and was a tailor by trade.

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