Charles Francis Adams (Boston, Mass attorney)
b. 1807-08-18
Boston, Massachusetts, attorney and politician. Boston native. Son of John Quincy Adams. Attended the Boston Latin School. Graduate of Harvard University in 1825. Admitted to the bar on January 6, 1829. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts from 1841 to 1843. Member of the Senate of the State of Massachusetts from 1844 to 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 of the United States, and served from March 4, 1859, to May 1, 1861. Chairman of the Committee on Manufacturers. Appointed by President Lincoln as Minister to England from March 20, 1861, to May 13, 1868.
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- Male
- Race
- White
Bibliography
Charles Francis Adams, Diary of Charles Francis Adams (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986).
Martin B. Duberman, Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1968).
Citation
Adams, Charles Francis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212162 (November 12, 2026).
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