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Charles Spencer Francis was born on June 17, 1853 at Troy, New York, was the son of Harriet Elizabeth Tucker and John Morgan Francis. Unlike his father, he enjoyed the advantages of education and travel made possible by the former’s success.
Educated at the Troy Academy and at Cornell University, where Charles Francis was graduated in 1877, he profited from the contacts which he had already made in his travels.
Charles Francis's training as a journalist was as soundly practical as his father’s, for he learned at first hand the routine of a newspaper office. Indeed, it was largely through his initiative that the Times, a small, one-man daily, became a modern city journal housed in a plant provided with the latest mechanical contrivances.
In 1881 Francis became joint proprietor and general manager, and in 1897, on the death of his father, proprietor and editor-inchief. He himself was succeeded by his son, John Morgan Francis, a graduate of Cornell and an athlete of note.
As with his father, his loyalty was largely personal. In state politics he advanced the fortunes of Governor Frank S. Black, of Troy, with whom he had been associated in a campaign against municipal corruption.
Later, under President Roosevelt, he became ambassador to Austria-Hungary. After four years of service he resigned in 1910. During his father’s missions to Athens and Vienna he had acted as his private secretary.
His Sport Among the Rockies (1889) is the record of an excursion of friendly spirits in the mountains of Montana.
Because of this bent, he was strongly attracted by military life, and served for eleven years as captain, major, and colonel on the staff of the 3rd Division, New York State National Guard.
He was also aide-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, to Governor Alonzo B. Cornell.
As a reward for his services, President McKinley therefore included Charles Spencer Francis name in his list of appointments, nominating him, in 1900, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Greece, Roumania, and Servia, a post which he assumed exactly thirty years after it had been held by his father.
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Charles Spencer Francis was also an ardent Republican, and played an important though obscure role in both state and national politics. He was one of the first leaders to advocate the nomination of William McKinley, and he gave to Theodore Roosevelt the undeviating support which he had given to his predecessor.
Charles Spencer Francis married, on May 25, 1878, Alice Evans of Ithaca, daughter of Prof. Evan W. Evans.
