Elected Governor of Granite State

Walking beside President Dickey in the next Dartmouth commencement procession, in the place of honor traditionally accorded the Governor of New Hampshire, will be Sherman Adams '20. In the November 2 elections he came out on top in the gubernatorial contest with his Democratic opponent, Prof. Herbert W. Hill of the Dartmouth history department, who ran a strong race, cutting the 1946 Republican plurality of 40,000 down to 11,000.

Governor-elect Adams, a lumber man and paper manufacturer for more than 25 years, began his eventful political career in 1940 when he was elected to the N. H. House of Representatives. As Chairman of the House Labor Committee his service was so outstanding that his candidacy for the 1943 speakership was unopposed. The next year he won the Republican nomination for U. S. Congressman, and was elected to represent New Hampshire's Second District.

While in Congress he served on several special committees dealing with New England problems and introduced legislation designed to improve labor-management relations. Returning from his national post, he entered the 1946 campaign for the Republican nomination for governor of New Hampshire against the incumbent, Gov. Charles M. Dale, and missed by a scant 157 votes. This time he won handily in both the primaries and the election.

Mr. Adams went into the lumber business immediately after graduation; was successively scaler, lumber survevor, foreman, plant manager and head of the timberlands department of the Parker-Young Cos., lumber concern in Lincoln. Recently he has been connected with the North American Pulp and Paper Industry, in charge of U. S.-Canadian negotiations seeking to facilitate pulpwood distribution to American paper and pulp mills.

His associations with the forest industry through the years include: senior member of the Society of American Foresters, director of the Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association, and executive committee member of the Society for the Protection of N. H. Forests.

The well-known Adams home is in Lincoln. Here the new Governor and the former Rachel White of Vermont have raised their attractive family of three girls and a young son. Their daughter Jeanne is assistant to the registrar at Dartmouth.

Governor-elect Adams, who has been playing a leading role in the Hopkins Center campaign in New Hampshire, will become an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College by right of his chief-executive post in the Granite State.