Charles Francis ADAMS

Charles Francis ADAMS

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Name Charles Francis ADAMS

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Geburt 18. August 1807 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA nach diesem Ort suchen
Tod 21. November 1886 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA nach diesem Ort suchen

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Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886), was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer. He was the son of President John Quincy Adams and Louisa Catherine Johnson and the grandson of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. Biography He was born in Boston, and attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College, where he graduated in 1825. He then studied law with Daniel Webster, and practiced in Boston. He wrote numerous reviews of works about American and British history for the North American Review. Adams was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1831, served in the state senate 1835–1840, founded and edited the journal Boston Whig in 1846, and was the unsuccessful nominee of the Free Soil Party for Vice President of the United States in 1848. In 1872, he was again nominated for Vice President, this time by the so-called "Straight-Out Democrats," who were Democrats alienated by the Presidential candidacy of Horace Greeley. As a Republican, Adams was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1858, where he chaired the Committee on Manufactures. He resigned to become Lincoln's minister (ambassador) to the Court of St. James (Britain) from 1861 to 1868. Powerful Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner had wanted the position, and became alienated from Adams. Britain had already recognized Confederate belligerency, but Adams was instrumental in maintaining British neutrality and preventing British diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Adams and his son, Henry Adams, who acted as his private secretary, also were kept busy monitoring Confederate diplomatic intrigues and the construction of rebel commerce raiders by British shipyards. Back in Boston, Adams declined the presidency of Harvard University, but became one of its overseers in 1869. In 1870 Charles Francis Adams built the first presidential library in the United States, to honor his father John Quincy Adams. The Stone Library includes over 14,000 books written in twelve languages. The library is located in the "Old House" at Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, Massachusetts. During the 1876 electoral college controversy, he sided with Democrat Samuel J. Tilden over Republican Rutherford B. Hayes for the presidency. Charles Francis Adams died in Boston on November 21, 1886, and was interred in Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy. His children with Abigail Brown Brooks included: Jane Adams (abt., 1830 - 1909) (valid and reliable citation of this daughter is needed) Louisa Catherine Adams, (1831 - 1870) John Quincy Adams II (September 22, 1833 – August 14, 1894) Charles Francis Adams Jr. (May 27, 1835 - May 20, 1915) Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918) Arthur Adams (1841 - 1846) Mary Adams (1845/46 - 1928) Peter Chardon Brooks Adams (June 24, 1848 - February 13, 1927) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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