Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr. ( born August 18, 1807 in Boston, Massachusetts, † November 21, 1886 ibid ) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the son of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, and the grandson of John Adams, the second president of the United States. He was a member of the famous Adams family.
Life
Charles F. Adams studied at the Harvard College in Cambridge, where he graduated in 1825. In 1827 he began under Daniel Webster, the first attempts as a lawyer until he got his approval on January 6, 1829. In 1828 he settled in Boston as a lawyer down. Besides, he devoted himself to literary work, and in 1831 elected to the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. From 1835 to 1840 he was a member of the Senate of Massachusetts. In 1846 he founded the political journal Boston Whig, but which existed only a few months.
In 1848, the Free Soil Party him at the side of Martin Van Buren as a candidate for the vice-presidency on. Since 1859 as a Republican representative of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was appointed by Abraham Lincoln as ambassador to London in 1861, where he has done much to avert the threat of civil war during the break between Great Britain and the Union. In the spring of 1868 Adams returned to Massachusetts. From 1871 to 1872 he was a member of the Geneva Court of Arbitration at the Alabama question.
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 philosopher of culture
- John Quincy Adams II (1833-1894), lawyer and politician
- Brooks Adams (1848-1927), lawyer and intellectual
The site of the house of the Adams family in Quincy, near Boston, lived in the five generations of politically influential family, is reported as Adams National Historical Park.