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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. He served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Charles Francis Adams II ( Boston, 27 de maio de 1835 — Washington, D.C., 20 de maio de 1915) foi um membro de uma proeminente família de políticos americanos. Filho de Charles Francis Adams. Serviu como coronel no Exército da União durante a Guerra Civil Americana e foi um executivo de ferrovia depois da guerra.
Charles, the son and grandson of American presidents, carved out a second home in England, succeeding in his main diplomatic mission: securing British neutrality in the Civil War. Photos via...
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.
When Charles Francis Adams Jr. was born on 27 May 1835, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Charles Francis Adams, was 27 and his mother, Abigail Brown Brooks, was 27. He married Mary Hone Ogden on 8 November 1865, in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.
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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.
25 de nov. de 2019 · Although one of his corporals was Charles Douglass, Adams had no interest in getting to know his junior officers, and he evidently never discovered that he served with the son of Frederick Douglass, America’s most famous black abolitionist.
