Gabriel Adams

Gabriel Adams

15th Mayor of Pittsburgh
In office 1847–1849
Preceded by	William Kerr
Succeeded by	John Herron
Personal details
Born	1790
Died	June 5, 1864 (aged 73/74) Lower St. Clair Township, Pennsylvania

Gabriel Adams (1790 – June 4, 1864) served as Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1847 to 1849.

Adams's administration witnessed the founding of the Joseph Horne Company, the founding of Mercy Hospital, and the beginnings of Organized Labor.

Mayor Adams would later serve as an appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He died in Lower St. Clair Township.

A. Gabriel Adams is buried in Section 25, Lot 117 of Allegheny Cemetery, alongside his wife, Mary.

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Preceded by William Kerr	Mayor of Pittsburgh 1847–1849	Succeeded by John Herron

Mayors of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania since the 1816 City Charter

Denny Darragh Snowden Murray M. Lowrie Murray Pettigrew McClintock Little Irwin Thomson Hay Howard Kerr Adams J. Herron Barker J. Guthrie Riddle Volz Bingham Weaver Wilson Sawyer J. Lowry McCarthy Blackmore Brush Blackmore McCarthy Liddell Lyon Fulton McCallin Gourley McKenna Ford Diehl A. Brown J. Brown Hays G. Guthrie Magee Armstrong Babcock Magee Kline J. S. Herron McNair Scully Lawrence Gallagher Barr Flaherty Caliguiri Masloff Murphy O'Connor Ravenstahl Peduto

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