Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams (née Smith; November 22, [O.S. November 11] 1744 – October 28, 1818) 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. president and the mother of a U.S. president.Adams's life is one of the most documented of the first ladies; many of the letters she wrote to her husband John Adams while he was in Philadelphia as a delegate in the Continental Congress prior and during the American Revolution document the closeness and versatility of their relationship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abigail Adams has received more than 4,118,869 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Abigail Adams is the 411th most popular companion (up from 437th in 2019), the 1,978th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,072nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Companion.