Llewelyn Sherman Adams was an American politician, best known as White House Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the culmination of a relatively short political career that also included a stint as Governor of New Hampshire. He lost his White House position in a scandal over a vicuña fur coat. Born in East Dover, Vermont, Adams was educated in Providence, Rhode Island public schools, graduating from Hope High School. He received an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College , having taken time off briefly for a six-month World War I stint in the United States Marine... Corps. He then went into the lumber business, first in Headville, Vermont , then to a combined lumber and paper business in Lincoln, New Hampshire. He also was involved in banking. Adams entered state politics as a Republican legislator . He served a term in the United States House of Representatives , making a failed effort to capture the 1946 Republican gubernatorial nomination in New Hampshire. He lost to incumbent Charles M. Dale; he later won this office in 1948.
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