John Adams Jr. (August 14, 1906 – April 19, 1999) was an American lawyer and Republican politician and a member of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature.

[1] He also served as an honorary sergeant at arms at the 1936 Republican National Convention and as a Judge Advocate at Camp Knight in Oakland, California during World War II.

Adams Sr. was an attorney and minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and served in the Unicameral after his son, from 1949 until he died in 1962.

Adams attended Pueblo High School (class of 1923) in Pueblo, Colorado before the family moved to Nebraska in 1923 and Adams attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he was one of 21 black students and the only black member of the Law School class of 1929 (he also received his undergraduate degree from UNL in 1927).

Adams enlisted as an infantry officer in World War II in April 1932 [4] and was promoted to Captain as trial judge advocate at Camp Knight in Oakland, California.

In another incident, Adams was arrested for refusing to move to the Jim Crow section in the balcony of a movie theater.

[14] Again for the 1941 legislature, Adams Jr. defeated Dr. Harry Foster (8,515 votes to 7,905),[15] campaigning against new taxes and in support of various reforms to state and legislative processes.

[16] In the 1942 election, Adams lost to Foster (4,175 votes to 3,957)[17] after having fought modernization of Douglas County office procedure.