Walter B. Adams

'''Walter Benjamin Adams, Sr. '''(30 April 1848 – 4 February 1926) was a Brunanter politician and lawyer that served as the 13th President of Brunant from 1903 to 1909. As President, he oversaw the liberal reforms passed under Pieter II's reign with personal disdain, and attempted to increase the national production of goods and services with moderate success.

Adams, a prominent lawyer in Niesburg, served as mayor of the city from 1887 to 1891. After his term ended, he served in the Senate from 1893 to 1901 as the representative of Carrington Parish and a member of the White Party. In 1903, Adams was elected President of Brunant after he won a landslide victory over Liberal candidate Willem Jansen.

During his Presidency, the national tax was raised significantly and multiple slums were violently eradicated, with one example being the Koningstad Poverty War in 1905. Multiple factories were also built across the country, with greater production being focused on by his administration. An administrative scandal in 1909 caused him to resign during his second term later in the year.

Early life
Walter Benjamin Adams, Sr. was born in Niesburg, on 30 April 1848, the only child of Joseph Adams and Caroline Benjamin. Adams's father, a coal miner, emigrated from the town of Portsmouth in southern England to Brunant in 1845. He died when Walter was only an infant, and his mother quickly abandoned the family shortly after. Adams was placed under the care of his paternal uncle, Isaac Adams, in the town of Carrington. He was always close to Adams and became a father figure of him, contributing to a majority of his early education.

Adams attended the local schools in Carrington until he was able to afford a scholarship at the Catholic Suffolk School in 1862. He did moderately well at the school, and after four years of scholarship attended Grijzestad University, where he studied Dutch and Philosophy.