The Adams Class Namesake
Charles F. Adams
(1866-1954)
The fact sheet:
- Great-great-grandson of John Adams
- Great-grandson of John Quincy Adams (1767 – 1848) and Benjamin Williams Crowninshield
- Great-grandnephew of Jacob Crowninshield
- Grandson of Charles Francis Adams (1807 – 1886)
- Son of John Quincy Adams (1833 – 1894)
- Son-in-law of William Croad Lovering
- Nephew of Brooks Adams
- First cousin once removed of Thomas Boylston Adams
- Born in Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass., August 2, 1866
- Mayor of Quincy, Mass., 1896 – 1897
- Delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917
- U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1929 – 1933
- Unitarian
- Alpha Delta Phi
- Delta Kappa Epsilon
- Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., June 10, 1954
- Interment at Mt. Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Mass
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