Thomas Adams
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Thomas Adams was the name of the following men:
- Thomas Adams (playwright) (1580-1653), English playwright
- Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (1586-1668), Lord Mayor of London
- Thomas Adams (publisher) (d. 1620), English bookseller and publisher
- Thomas Adams (writer) (1633-1670), religious writer
- Thomas Adams (politician) (1730-1788), a Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress
- Thomas Adams (musician) (1785-1858), English organist and composer
- Thomas Adams (architect) (1871-1940), a pioneer of urban planning
- Thomas Boylston Adams (1772-1832), youngest son of U.S. president John Adams
- Thomas Sewall Adams (1873-1933) American economist and educator
- Thomas Adams (inventor) (1818-1905) inventor of chewing gum. Although he is credited with the invention of chewing gum, this is not an entirely accurate account. He did however come up with the idea of chicle gum and the creation of the chicle machine (chewing gum machine which produced sticks of gum made from chicle.) The "Adams Sons and Company" began producing gum in 1876.
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