Abigail Adams

FIRST LADY TO JOHN ADAMS // #2

• Women’s rights and education advocate

• Her letters provide tremendous insight about the Revolutionary War

• Mother to John Quincy Adams, who thought he would “be doomed to perpetual celibacy” because of her impossible “requisites” for anyone he should marry

• Take a peek at her family tree here

• President Truman said she “would have been a better President than her husband.”