Abigail Adams

1744 - 1818

Abigail Adams was the wife of the second US president, John Adams, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, who became the sixth president. Throughout their married life, Abigail served as her husband’s most influential advisor and their letters illustrate this.


Photo: Abigail Adams, by Benjamin Blyth, courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

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