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John Adams wanted America to have a King: False.

“It’s great to be a gay character on an HBO show, to have that visibility and that viewership,” he said. He wanted to find a way to live his life within the construct of the system.”

“The Gilded Age” is written and created by Julian Fellowes, the mastermind behind “Downton Abbey.” The series, which concludes its third season Sunday, offers a titillatingly fictionalized take on the “Boom Years” of New York City in the 1880s.

He is coauthor, with Geoffrey Kemp, of War with Iran: Political, Military, and Economic Consequences. Look, it was a long time ago. When asked what they like about the show, most did not cite the plot, but the clothes and fashions. Trevor Thrall, George Mason University
Paul R. Pillar, Georgetown University
Harvey Sapolsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Board of Directors

William Ruger, American Institute of Economic Research, chair
Edward King, Defense Priorities
Michael C.

Desch, University of Notre Dame
Reid Smith, Stand Together

There's the sharp-tongued queen of the social set (Maggie Smith on Downton/Christine Baranski on Gilded Age), the ambitious young newcomer desperate to make his/her mark (Tom the chauffeur on Downton/the niece from Pennsylvania on Gilded Age), the closeted gay (Thomas the footman/Christine Baranski's son).
Claybourne Elder as a secretly gay John Adams on
The Gilded Age 
(fictional or real)?

The secret gay couple is another point of interest.

John Adams wasn't a human, but actually a very tall troll escaped from under the Delaware Memorial Bridge: OK, yeah, this is actually true. Julie previously worked at the Charles Koch Institute as a foreign policy analyst and in various defense contractor roles at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Michael Culp is a communications & development associate.

“It’s funny getting killed off on a TV show, because everyone treats you like you have a terminal illness,” Elder said. The secret male lover of Oscar Van Rhijn is John Adams, the great-grandson of John Quincy Adams. It was a delightful experience, and he made it very easy.”

Like other members of “The Gilded Age” cast, Elder first rose to prominence in theater, appearing alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in the Broadway revival of “Sunday in the Park with George” in 2017 and, most recently, the Tony-winning revival of “Company” in 2021.

The sets and costumes are award worthy and stunning.

Tony winners/nominees/Broadway people on Gilded Age (Episode One):

Van Rhijn/Brook Household: 

Christine Baranski (2 Tonys for The Real Thing, Rumors)

Cynthia Nixon (2 Tonys for Rabbit Hole, The Little Foxes)

Louisa Jacobsen (Meryl Streep's daughter)

Simon Jones (most recently in Trouble in Mind, also played King George V in the Downton Abbey movie)

Debra Monk (Tony for Redwood Curtain)

Kristine Niesen (Tony nomination for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike)

Russell household:

Carrie Coon (Tony nomination for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Morgan Spector (Drama Desk nominee for Russian Transport, HBO's The Plot Against America)

Michael Cerveris (Tony Award for Fun Home)

Celia Keenan Bolger (Tony Award for To Kill a Mockingbird)

Douglas Sills (Tony nominee for The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Patrick Page (Tony nominee for Hadestown)

Scott Family:

Denee Benton (Tony nominee for Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812)

Audra McDonald (6 Tony Awards)

Old Money Society figures:

Donna Murphy (2 Tonys for The King and I--1996, Passion)

Kelli O'Hara (Tony Award for The King and I--2015)

Katie Finneran (2 Tonys for Noises Off, Promises, Promises)

Ashlie Atkinson (The Ritz, Spike Lee's Black Klansman)

Claybourne Elder (currently in Company)


(Above) The "downstairs" cast of Beacon Hill; (top) 
Williams Daniels as John Quincy Adams, great-
grandfather of the "fictional" gay John Adams
in The Adams Chronicles.



Claybourne Elder had a wealth of personal experience to draw from when he landed on the role of John Adams, the fictional grandson of former President John Quincy Adams, who is portrayed as a gay man in New York’s 19th-century elite on HBO’s “The Gilded Age.”

“Growing up in Utah as a Mormon, there was a lot about hiding who I was, hiding how I really felt,” the actor, who is gay, told HuffPost.

was john adams gay

“So I want kids from a country town like mine to see [my work] and say, ‘Oh, that’s possible.

Verdict: Not a Jew.

February 3, 2014

Staff

John Allen Gay is executive director of the John Quincy Adams Society, a national network of student groups centered on a vision of foreign policy restraint.

He holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Delaware. Like Gilded Age, Beacon Hill boasted a cast of theater actors and it was shot in NY, but its scripts were inferior. The Gilded Age takes place in 1882 and that would make this Adams, the son of one of four Adamses--Henry, John Quincy II, Charles Francis II or Brooke.

By the strangest coincidence, I just finished watching all 13 episodes of The Adams Chronicles on DVD. Like Beacon Hill, this series from the 1970s was chockful of New York theater actors including George Grizzard, William Daniels, Kathryn Walker, Leora Dana, Pamela Peyton-Wright, Nancy Marchand, George Hearn, Philip Anglim, Katherine Houghton, and in tiny roles before they hit it big in TV, Kelsey Graham and Christopher Lloyd.

He holds a B.A. in political science from Louisiana State University and an M.A. in International Studies with concentrations in international security, intelligence, and conflict resolution from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

Adam Abdel-Qader is a program assistant at the John Quincy Adams Society.

He holds a master’s degree in public policy with a concentration in international affairs and a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from Liberty University. He spent the past fifteen years working in the railroad industry, along with over a decade of service in the military, and has previously taught comparative politics as an adjunct professor at Geneva College.

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He is a 2021 alumnus of the Society’s Marcellus Policy Fellowship. “Finally, I was like, ‘OK, I’m ready to be dead.’ But if you’re going to go [as a character on a TV series], I’d rather go out with a bang.”

John’s death comes just as “The Gilded Age” is enjoying a surge in viewership, and the series was renewed for a fourth season last month.