Adams, Charles Francis

Life Span
to
Full name
Charles Francis Adams
Place of Birth
Boston, MA
Burial Place
Quincy, MA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
7
Family
John Quincy Adams (father), Louisa Catherine Johnson (mother), Abigail Brown Brooks (wife)
Education
Harvard
Occupation
Politician
Diplomat
Attorney or Judge
Educator
Writer or Artist
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Whig
Free Soil
Republican
Government
Lincoln Administration (1861-65)
Johnson Administration (1865-69)
Diplomat
US House of Representatives
Date Event
In London, the U.S. Ambassador meets with the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
British Government seizes a newly-built schooner under the Foreign Enlistment Act
In London, British labor leaders call on U.S. Ambassador Adams to relay their support to President Lincoln
The Alexandra Case, over British neutrality in ship-building, opens in London
The Alexandra Case, over British neutrality in ship-building, reaches a verdict in London
The British Prime Minister orders the detention of two recently British-built vessels for the Confederacy
Thirty-Seventh Congress of the United States
19th-Century World Affairs
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