Skip to content
Vinony
English
EnglishBahasa IndonesiaDeutschEspañolFrançaisItalianoNederlandsPolskiPortuguêsSvenskaTiếng ViệtРусскийالعربيةفارسیไทย한국어中文日本語
Abigail Adams

File:Abigail_Adams_by_Gilbert_Stuart.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ206191· pop 83· linked from 800 articles

Abigail Adams

Sign in to save

Also known as Abigail Smith, Abigail Smith Adams

First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801

AI overview

Abigail Adams was First Lady of the United States during the presidency of John Adams from 1797 to 1801, making her an important historical figure in early American politics and society. She matters because she was a significant influence during a formative period in U.S. history when the young nation was establishing its government and institutions.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1744
Died
1818
Works
17

Top works

  • Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
  • Words of Ages
  • Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
  • Microfilms of the Adams papers
  • Thomas Jefferson family letters at the Library of Congress American Memory Project

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Canada
Active from
1959-11-05
2008 universal fire victimaorcanadianclassic rockhard rockheartland rock

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
23
Total plays
45

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Abigail+Adams">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Abigail Adams

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

    · 2010 · cited 23,567x

  2. <i>Phaser</i>crystallographic software

    · 2007 · cited 20,203x

  3. Crystallography &amp; NMR System: A New Software Suite for Macromolecular Structure Determination

    · 1998 · cited 13,100x

  4. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,699x

  5. Classification of subtype of acute ischemic stroke. Definitions for use in a multicenter clinical trial. TOAST. Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment.

    · 1993 · cited 10,367x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

  • “We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
  • “I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me — to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.”
  • “How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end.”
  • “The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.”
  • “I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”
  • “Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

~27 min read

Encyclopedic overview

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 is widely considered to be an influential figure in the founding 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 John Adams while he was in Philadelphia as a delegate in the Continental Congress, prior to and during the Revolutionary War, document the closeness and versatility of their relationship. John Adams frequently sought the advice of Abigail on many matters, and their letters are filled with intellectual discussions on government and politics. Her letters also serve as eyewitness accounts of the home front of the Revolutionary War.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abigail Adams” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (9)

Available in 64 languages

Show 45 more

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0