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Abigail Smith Adams
Date of Birth: Nov 11, 1744
Date of Death: Oct 28, 1818
Age at death: 73
Marriage: Oct 25, 1764 - John
Adams
Children: 5 |
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- The opinionated Mrs. Adams took every
opportunity to speak on political issues, and forewarned her
husband that if women weren't involved in the administration
they would one day rise up and overthrow the government
- Wishing to be addressed as "Mrs.
President Adams" her political life was compromised when
her husband lost reelection in 1800
- The Adams' would be the first family
to take up residence at the White House
- The home was not yet finished and
with the absence of a roof over the East Room, Abigail found
it a convenient place to hang the family laundry to dry
- As a celebration of their marriage
they granted two of their slaves freedom and paid for the education
of one
- John and Abigail were the first presidential
couple to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary in 1814
- Until the election of George W. Bush
in 2000, Abigail Adams held the distinction of being the first
woman who was the wife of a president and mother to another,
John Quincy Adams, sixth president
- John Adams once remarked that the
reason he insisted he and Abigail remain virgins until marriage
was due to the warning of his father, "Premarital sex causes
venereal disease."
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