page_title: Abigail Adams
section_title: Political involvement
hierarchical_section_title: Abigail Adams / Political involvement
context_page_description: Abigail Smith Adams was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States. Later on, people started to address the wife of the president as the First Lady. So, she became the second First Lady of the United States. She was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts. She belonged to a famous family of Massachusetts.
  In 1801, the couple retired and lived in Quincy. Abigail died in 1818, at age 74 of typhoid fever.
context_section_description: Adams was a vital confidant and adviser to her husband John Adams. She opposed slavery and supported women's rights. In 1776, her husband participated in the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. There, Adams wrote her most famous letter to the Founding Fathers "remember the ladies". 
  
  In 1784, Adams joined at her husbdat his 's diplomatic post in Paris. She became interested in the manners of the French. After 1785, she filled the difficult role of wife of the First US Minister to Great Britain. She did so with dignity and tat.
caption: Abigail Adams (1744-1818). From: Evert A. Duyckinick: Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York, 1873.
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