Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

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Charles Francis Adams

Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (born August 18, 1807 in Boston , Massachusetts , †  November 21, 1886 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . He was the son of John Quincy Adams , 6th  President of the United States , and the grandson of John Adams , 2nd President of the United States. This made him a member of the well-known Adam family .

Life

Charles F. Adams studied at Harvard College , Cambridge , where he graduated in 1825. In 1827 he began his first attempts as a lawyer under Daniel Webster until he was admitted to the bar on January 6, 1829. In 1828 he settled in Boston as a lawyer. He also devoted himself to literary work and was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1831 . From 1835 to 1840 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate . In 1846 he founded the Boston Whig political journal , which only existed for a few months.

In 1848 , the Free Soil Party put him on the side of Martin Van Buren as a candidate for the vice-presidency . In 1857 Adams was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . As the Republican representative of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives since 1859 , he was appointed ambassador to London by Abraham Lincoln in 1861 , where he did much to avert the rift between Great Britain and the Union that threatened during the Civil War . Adams returned to Massachusetts in the spring of 1868. From 1871 to 1872 he was a member of the Geneva Court of Arbitration for the Alabama question . In 1880 he became an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

Adams' son Charles (1835-1915) was a general in the American Civil War and president of the railroad company Union Pacific Railroad .

Other sons were:

  • Henry Adams (1838–1918), historian and cultural philosopher
  • John Quincy Adams II (1833-1894), lawyer and politician
  • Brooks Adams (1848–1927), lawyer and intellectual

The grounds of the Adams family home in Quincy near Boston, where five generations of the politically influential family lived, is designated as the Adams National Historical Park .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter A. (PDF; 945 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Charles Francis, Sr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1886
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts