Adams political family

Adams
Ethnicity	English American
Current region	Massachusetts
Information
Place of origin	England
Notable members	John Adams, Abigail Adams, Samuel Adams, John Quincy Adams,
Connected families	Baldwin, Hoar & Sherman family
Estate	Peacefield, Quincy, Massachusetts

The Adams family was a prominent political family in the United States during the late 18th century through early 20th centuries. Based in eastern Massachusetts, they formed part of the Boston Brahmin community.

Contents 1 Members 2 Harvard University and the Adams family 3 Connections 4 Memorials 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading

Members

• Henry Adams (1583–1646) born Barton St David, Somerset, England was the first of the clan who immigrated to New England, United States.^[1]
• Samuel Adams (1722–1803), American Revolutionary,^[2] Governor of Massachusetts
• John Adams (1735–1826), Samuel's second cousin, second President of the United States, married Abigail Adams (née Smith) (1744–1818)^[3]
  • John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth President of the United States, married English-born Louisa Adams (née Johnson) (1775–1852)^[4]
    • George Washington Adams (1801–1829), member of Massachusetts state legislature^[5]
    • Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (1807–1886), U.S. Congressman and Ambassador to the United Kingdom^[6]
      • John Quincy Adams II (1833–1894), lawyer and politician^[7]
      • Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835–1915), brigadier-general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and president of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1884 to 1890.
        • Charles Francis Adams III (1866–1954), 44th Secretary of the Navy, mayor of Quincy, Massachusetts.^[8]
          • Charles Francis Adams IV (1910–1999), first president of Raytheon
      • Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), a prominent author and political commentator, married Marian Hooper Adams (née Hooper) (1843–1885)
      • Brooks Adams (1848–1927), a historian and political scientist.
  • Charles Adams (1770–1800), New York lawyer and second son of John
  • Thomas Boylston Adams (1772–1832), Massachusetts legislator and judge; youngest son of John^[9]
• Elihu Adams (1741–1776), soldier, brother of John Adams.
• Samuel A. Adams (1934–1988), a historian and CIA analyst.
• Thomas Boylston Adams (1910–1997), a grandson of Charles Francis Adams, Jr., was a Democratic politician in Massachusetts and delegate to the 1972 Democratic National Convention^[10]

Harvard University and the Adams family

• Samuel Adams Class of 1740
• John Adams Class of 1755
• John Quincy Adams Class of 1788
• Charles Adams (1770–1800) Class of 1789
• Thomas Boylston Adams Class of 1790
• George Washington Adams Class of 1821
• John Quincy Adams II expelled prior to 1823 graduation
• Charles Francis Adams, Sr. Class of 1825
• Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Class of 1856
• Henry Brooks Adams Class of 1858
• Brooks Adams Class of 1870
• Charles Francis Adams III Class of 1888
• Roger Adams Class of 1909
• Charles Francis Adams IV Class of 1932
• Samuel A. Adams Class of 1955

Adams House, one of twelve residential colleges at Harvard, is named after John Adams and later members of the Adams family.

Connections

The Adams political family is connected with U.S. Presidents Millard Fillmore, William Howard Taft, and Calvin Coolidge and U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, through common descent from one Henry Squire.^[11]

Through his mother, John Adams was a second cousin of Massachusetts governor Increase Sumner; their maternal grandmothers were sisters. Both were also related to President Coolidge and to Diana, Princess of Wales, and through the latter to The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry.

The Adams family is one of only four families to have produced two Presidents of the United States, the others being the Bush family, the Roosevelt family, and the Harrison family.

Memorials

• Adams Memorial
• Adams National Historical Park

See also

• List of political families

References

Further reading

• Robert J. Maddox, "The Adamses in America," American History Illustrated, Apr 1971, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p 12-21

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