Charles Francis Adams

(1866–1954), son of the second John Quincy Adams (1833–1894) and grandson of the first Charles Francis Adams, was a banker and public official. As secretary of the navy, 1929–33, under President Herbert Hoover, Adams helped negotiate the agreements at the London Naval Conference of 1930, which restricted the size and number of naval vessels. He returned to the banking business in 1933. Adams was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1892. He was mavor of Quincy, 1896–97.