Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (August 18, 1807 - November 21, 1886), the son of President John Quincy Adams and Louisa Catherine Johnson-Adams and the grandson of President John Adams and Abigail Adams, was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer. He was born in Boston, and attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College, where he graduated in 1825. He then studied law with Daniel Webster, and practiced in Boston.

Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (May 27 1835 - May 20, 1915) was a member of the prominent Adams political family and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr.. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was a railroad executive following the war.

Charles Francis Adams (18 October, 1876-1947) was the first owner of the Boston Bruins in the 1924-1925 season and owner of one of the United States largest grocery store chains. Born in Newport, Vermont, he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960. Under his leadership the Bruins won their first Stanley Cup in 1929.

Charles Francis Adams III (August 2, 1866 - June 10, 1954) was the United States Secretary of the Navy under Herbert Hoover and well-known as a yachtsman. A scion of the Adams family that gave the country two presidents, Charles Francis was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. Adams' father was Charles Francis Adams Jr., his grandfather was Charles Francis Adams, Sr., his great-grandfather was John Quincy Adams and his great-great-grandfather was John Adams.

Charles Francis Adams IV was a U.S. electronics industrialist. He served as the first president of the Raytheon Company between 1948 and 1960, and again from 1962 to 1964. He served as the chairman of the Raytheon Company between 1960 and 1962, and again from 1964 until 1972. He was the son of Charles Francis Adams III. He was the great-great-great grandson of United States President John Adams. Adams was born in Boston and attended St. Mark’s School, …

Charles Francis Adams, Sr . - Charles Francis Adams (August 18, 1807, Boston - November 21 1886, Boston ), the son of John Quincy Adams and Louisa Adams, was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer.

Charles Francis Adams : Minister to Great Britain (1861-63)

Adams was then elected as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives for the Twenty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses, becoming a Whig in 1834 . He served from March 4 , 1831 , until his death. He was chairman of the Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-second through Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses), the Committee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-seventh Congress) and the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Twenty-seventh Congress).

Brooks Adams (June 24, 1848, Quincy, Massachusetts - February 13, 1927, Boston), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He graduated from Harvard University in 1870 and studied at Harvard Law School in 1870 and 1871. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial activities.

Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, born Louisa Catherine Johnson (February 12 1775 - May 15 1852), wife of John Quincy Adams, was First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829. She was born in London to an English mother, Catherine Nuth Johnson, but her father was American, Joshua Johnson of Maryland who served as United States consulate general in London after 1790. She had a sister, Caroline, and a brother, Thomas.

John Quincy Adams II was an American lawyer and politician, the grandson of president John Quincy Adams and the son of Charles Francis Adams. Adams graduated from Harvard in 1853, practiced law, and then established an experimental model farm near Quincy, Massachusetts. He was elected to the Massachusetts state legislature in 1866 as a Republican, but soon switched to the Democratic Party because of his disaffection with president Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies.

Weston W. Adams (August 9, 1904 - March 19, 1973) was a son of Charles Adams and was first director of the Boston Bruins and in 1932 became president of the Canadian American Hockey League farm team Boston Tigers. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he became president of the Boston Bruins in 1936. Adams was also involved with other sports, as secretary to the National League's Boston Braves.

William Stephens Smith (November 8, 1755 - June 10, 1816) was a United States Representative from New York. He was a son-in-law of President John Adams, a brother-in-law of President John Quincy Adams, and an uncle of Charles Francis Adams. Born on Long Island, he graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1774, studied law for a short time, and served in the Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General John Sullivan in 1776.