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Line 34: He also was a [[Second lieutenant#United States\|second lieutenant]] in the Mississippi militia and a member of the [[Mississippi legislature]].<ref name="Eicher99"/> Adams killed James Hagan in a duel on June 6, ~~18434~~1843. Hagan, editor of the ''Vicksburg Sentinel'', had criticized Adams' father.<ref name="Faust"/><ref name="Sifakis2"/><ref name="Warner1"/><ref>Warner says that Adams'sfather was a federal judge. Eicher, 2001, p. 99 says Adams killed a federal judge who had criticized his father's newspaper.</ref> Adams moved to [[New Orleans, Louisiana]] in 1852.<ref name="Faust"/> He became prominent in local political and social circles, and his practice became one of the city's largest.

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