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Charles Francis Adams Jr. (May 27, 1835 – March 20, 1915) was an American author, historian, and railroad and park commissioner who served as the president of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1884 to 1890.
Charles also succeeded in "passing the torch" to the next generation of the Adams family, which included four noteworthy sons—railroad reformer Charles Francis Jr., Massachusetts politician John Quincy II, celebrated writer Henry Adams, and historian Brooks Adams.
25 nov 2019 · When in early 1861, Charles Francis Sr. was tapped by President-elect Abraham Lincoln to serve as his minister to Great Britain, the elder Adams took his third son, Henry, with him to London, leaving Charles Francis Jr. behind to manage the family’s investments.
Charles Francis Adams Jr., supremely anxious as he was about failure, man hood, status, and race, is a fascinating figure whose life story helps us advance our appreciation of those dynamics.4 thoughts at the moment they were supposedly written. See CFA Jr., Autobiography, pp. 27-28, 110?11, 144. A contemporary reviewer was dismayed that ...
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835–1915), was a historian, civic leader, and railroad expert who for a time was president of the Union Pacific Railroad and who later retired to write a biography of his father and books on other historical subjects.
Charles Francis Adams (born Aug. 18, 1807, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 21, 1886, Boston) was a U.S. diplomat who played an important role in keeping Britain neutral during the U.S. Civil War (1861–65) and in promoting the arbitration of the important “Alabama” claims.
His own biography, as part of the “American Statesmen Series,” was written by his son, Charles Francis Adams, Jr. The American diplomat who was son of President John Quincy Adams, traveled in his youth with his parents to St. Petersburg when his father was the U.S. Minister to Russia.
