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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsCharles Francis ADAMS
(1807-1886)
ADAMS, Charles Francis,
(son of John Quincy Adams and grandson of John Adams), a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., August
18, 1807; spent several years with his parents in St. Petersburg,
Russia; attended the Boston Latin School, and was graduated from
Harvard University in 1825; studied law; was admitted to the bar on
January 6, 1829, and commenced practice in Boston; member of the
Massachusetts house of representatives 1841-1843; member of the
Massachusetts state senate 1844-1845; founded the newspaper Boston
Whig in 1846; unsuccessful candidate of the Free-Soil Party for
Vice President of the United States in 1848; elected as a
Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses and
served from March 4, 1859, to May 1, 1861, when he resigned to
accept a diplomatic position; chairman, Committee on Manufactures
(Thirty-sixth Congress); appointed by President Lincoln as Minister
to England and served from March 20, 1861, to May 13, 1868;
declined the presidency of Harvard University but became one of its
overseers in 1869; died in Boston, Mass., November 21, 1886;
interment in Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk County,
Mass.
Bibliography
Adams, Charles Francis. Diary of Charles Francis Adams.
1964. Reprint, edited by Aïda DiPace Donald and David Donald.
8 vols. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986;
Duberman, Martin B. Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886. 1960.
Reprint, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, [1968].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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