• Born August 18, 1807 - Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
  • Deceased in 1886 - Unknown,aged 79 years old
  • Buried - Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage Is Traced To The Legitimate Issue Of Kings, page 68, 69, a prominent candidate for the Presidency of the United State; Member of Massachusetts Legislature, 1831-1836; Member of Congress from Massachusetts, 1859-61; United States Minister to Great Britain, 1861-68.

Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-Five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, Volume 1, page 47, lawyer, congressman, author. He spent the most of boyhood in St. Petersburg and in London, whilst his father, John Quincy Adams, was minister to Russia and England. He graduated from Harvard university in 1825; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1828. He served three years in the lower house and two years in the upper house of the Massachusetts legislature. In 1848 he was a delegate to the Buffalo convention, and elected president; and was the candiadte for vice-president on the ticket with Mr. Van Buren. In 1859-61 he was a member of the thirty-sixth congress. One of the most noted events of his live was his appointment as minister to England during the civil war in America; and though encountering the most bitter social hostility in England, he maintained the rights of his country; and exercised the grandest qualities of true statesmanship just where and when they were of priceless value. He edited The Life and Works of John Adams; Letters of Mrs. Abigail Adams; Memoirs of John Q. Adams; and Familiar Letters of John and Abigail Adams, with Memoir of Mrs. Adams.

Vital Records of Medford, Massachusetts, Births, Marriages, Deaths, page 177, Adams, Charles F. [dup. omits F.; Francis. int.] of Boston, and Abby Brown Brooks, Sept. 5, 1829. [Charles F. Adams Esq. CR1]

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Charles Francis Adams 1807-1886