ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1866— ), Secretary of the Navy in President Hoover's cabinet, was born in Quincy, Mass., August 2, 1866, great-grandson of John Quincy Adams, 6th President, and great-great-grandson of John Adams, 2nd Pres ident of the United States; A.B., Harvard, 1888; LL.B., 1892; admitted to Suffolk bar 1893. He was a member of Quincy City Council, 1893-1895; mayor, 1896-1897; treasurer of Harvard College, 1898-1929; amateur skipper on yacht "Resolute," which won the International Yacht Races, 1920; appointed Secretary of the Navy, March 5, 1929. He was a member of the American delegation at the London Naval Conference, 1930.