Eleston Montgomery Adams

Eleston Montgomery Adams is an Antiguan politician and playwright who served in the House of Representatives of Antigua and Barbuda representing St. Paul from 2004 to 2014, as a member of the United Progressive Party.

Early life and education Eleston Montgomery Adams was born in Liberta, Antigua and Barbuda, and was educated there. His father was a barber and his mother was a maid. He graduated with a teaching degree from Antigua State College and taught for twenty years in Liberta, John Hughes, Sea View Farm, and Cobbs Cross. He attended the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts and wrote 14 plays. He was a reporter for The Daily Observer.

Career In the 1994 and 1999 general elections Adams ran as the nominee of the United Progressive Party (UPP) in the St. Paul constituency, but lost to Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) nominee Rodney Williams. In the 2004 general election Adams defeated Williams in the St. Paul constituency. He defeated Paul Chet Greene, the nominee of the ABLP, in the 2009 general election. Greene defeated him in the 2014 general election. Adams ran to be leader of the UPP in 2015, but was defeated by Harold Lovell.

Adams Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing, Culture and Social Transformation with responsibility for Culture from 5 January 2005 to 31 December 2006, and the Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation and Culture from 16 March 2009 to 12 June 2014. In 2013, Adams sent an 89 member delegation to represent the country at the Caribbean Festival of Arts, which was criticised due to its large size. Adams was a cricket and football player in his youth and managed the Antigua and Barbuda national football team.

Personal life Adams is the father of seven children.