Robert Adamson (March 31, 1871 – September 19, 1935) was an American journalist, banker, and public official.

[2] He began writing articles for the Macon, Georgia, newspaper while still in his teens.

He married Ethel McClintock on December 10, 1902, at Trinity Chapel in Manhattan.

When Gaynor died in September 1910, Adamson continued as secretary to the new mayor, Ardolph Loges Kline.

Adamson served in that position until the end of the Mitchel Administration on December 31, 1917.