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Franklin Adams

Franklin Adams.

Franklin Adams was a member of the Assembly, the lower house of the Mexican Congress, in the 1920s. Although Sobel does not specify his party, it is likely he was a member of the United Mexican Party. Adams was known as "the legislator from Kramer", meaning that he owed his election to the financial support of Kramer Associates, the largest corporation in the world, and could be relied on to faithfully represent the company's interests. Since Sobel makes it clear that K.A. controlled the votes of many members of the Mexican legislature (possibly a majority), Adams was presumably also the company's unofficial spokesman in the Assembly. Thus, when Adams called President Emiliano Calles' 1922 statehood proposal "harebrained," this presumably reflected the view of K.A. President Douglas Benedict.

Adams may be a descendant of John Adams, a delegate to the Second Continental Congress who was executed for treason after the North American Rebellion, but Sobel does not specifically say so.


Sobel's source for Franklin Adams' role as "the legislator from Kramer" is Stanley Tulin's The Kramer Associates: The Benedict Years (London, 1971).

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