Adams, Charles Francis

Adams, Charles Francis,1866–1954, U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1929–33), b. Quincy, Mass.; grandson of Charles FrancisAdams(1807–86). He practiced law for a brief period in Boston but for most of his life was connected with a wide variety of business enterprises in that city and elsewhere. Adams served in the cabinet of Herbert Hoover.

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