Adoniram J. Holmes
Adoniram Judson Holmes (March 2, 1842 - January 21, 1902) was a U.S. Representative from Iowa.
Born in Wooster, Ohio, Holmes moved with his parents to Palmyra, Wisconsin, in 1853. He attended the common schools. He entered Milton College, Milton, Wisconsin, but left in 1862 to enter the Union Army, where he served in the Twenty-fourth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, until the close of the Civil War. He completed his studies in Milton College and was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1867. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boone, Iowa, in 1868. He served as mayor in 1880 and 1881. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1882 and 1883.
Holmes was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1889). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1888. Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives in the Fifty-first Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Boone, Iowa. County attorney 1896-1899. He died in Clarinda, Iowa, January 21, 1902. He was interred in Linwood Cemetery, Boone, Iowa.
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