Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. She was a founder of the United States, and was both the first second lady and second first lady of the United States, although such titles were not used at the time. She and Barbara Bush are the only two women in American history who were both married to a U.S.
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- 🏆 National Women's Hall of Fame
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Trending topics shown first"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
"Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands."
"I acknowledge myself a unitarian — Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. … There is not any reaso…"
": I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."
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1744
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Birth1818
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