Thomas Sewall Adams was an economist and professor born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Career

He graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D. in 1899. Except for a year spent teaching at Washington University in St. Louis from 1910 to 1911, Adams was professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1916. As a member of the Wisconsin Tax Commission from 1911 to 1915, he helped draft the state income tax law of 1911.

He was a professor at Yale University from 1916 until his death. As an economic adviser to the U. S. Treasury from 1917 to 1933, he is credited with much of the taxation policy of the World War I and post-war period. He was president of the National Tax Association  from 1922 to 1923, American Economic Association in 1927 and a member of the League of Nations fiscal committee from 1929 to 1933. Similarly Adams was the author of several books on economics and taxation.

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