1837-1922 

Adoniram Judson Pinkham

Soldier/Public Servant       IL/ID

Thanks to “The Strangest Names in American Political History” and Andy Osterdahl for the information and image in this entry.

Adoniram Judson Pinkham’s political claim to fame rests on his service as Idaho Secretary of State from 1891-1893 as well as being a signer of the Idaho State Constitution. He was born in Illinois in 1837 and was 85 years of age at the time of his death in 1922. He married a woman named Adah and served as a sergeant in Co. A of the 13th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War, later being promoted to Captain. Sometime after the war, Pinkham relocated to Idaho territory and in 1890 was elected as that state’s inaugural Secretary of State (1891-1893). A Washington state death record reports that he died on April 8, 1922, in the city of Walla Walla.[1]

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[1] https://politicalstrangenames.blogspot.com/2012/05/adoniram-judson

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