CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS III - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 293494
Sale Price $162.00
Reg. $180.00
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS III
His signature on a card affixed below a color magazine picture of
him
Signature: "C. F. Adams", 5x3 card, affixed to an 8½x11 page
bearing an unsigned color magazine image of him. Charles Francis Adams III
(1866-1954), the grandson of President John Q. Adams and great grandson of
President John Adams, was Secretary of the Navy in the Hoover
administration (1929-1933), representing the US at the London Naval
Conference of 1930. He was Mayor of Quincy, Massachusetts, the ancestral home
town (1896-1897). A yachting enthusiast known as "Dean of American
helmsmen," he captained the Resolute in successful defense of the
America's Cup (1920). He was associated with Harvard University for
over half a century, as an undergraduate and then law student, as treasurer of
the corporation and as President of the Board of Overseers. From the
private collection of Ralph Errington Ward (1926-2009). Ward, a
fighter pilot and squadron commander in the China-Burma-India Theater of World
War II, went on to become President and CEO of Cheseborough-Ponds, Inc.,
transforming the cosmetics firm into a major home product conglomerate. Fine
condition.
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