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Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915; Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924. Publication date 1916 Topics Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915, Lawyers -- United States Biography
John Quincy Adams II (father) Education. Harvard University ( BA, LLB) Charles Francis Adams III (August 2, 1866 – June 10, 1954) was an American lawyer and politician, who served as the 44th United States Secretary of the Navy under President Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933. He was skipper of the Resolute which won the 1920 America's Cup.
Charles Francis Adams, born Aug. 18, 1807, was John Quincy’s youngest son. He started keeping a journal at the age of 13 and maintained it for 60 years. His own son, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., observed, “He took to diary writing early, and he took to it bad.”. John Adams lived in ‘the old house, down the hill,’ in Quincy, while John ...
The following is a letter from Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, William Seward, to Charles Francis Adams, Ambassador to England and in effect, the leader of the whole American diplomatic corps. Within the letter, Seward explains Lincoln’s rationale for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, which was put into effect on January 1, 1863.
His son, Charles Francis Adams (1807–86), continued the battle against slavery as a congressman and as a leader of the Free-Soil Party. During the Civil War he demonstrated his own diplomatic genius while U.S. minister to Great Britain, preventing British recognition of and possible alliance with the Confederacy.
Collection Description. The papers of Charles Francis Adams II consist of 29 cartons of diaries, personal journals, correspondence, literary drafts, lectures, scrapbooks, and other papers spanning the years 1860-1933. Among the subjects documented in the collection are: Adams's service with the First Massachusetts Cavalry during the Civil War ...
Charles Francis Adams may refer to: Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886), grandson of John Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, U.S. congressman, ambassador Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835–1915), son of above, American Civil War general and president of the Union Pacific Railroad
