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who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war

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The Widow Washington Library of Congress who rose to become theThe Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washingtons mother, based on archival sources. Her sons biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self centered and crude, a trial and an obstacle to her oldest child. But the records tell a very different story. Mary Ball, the daughter of a wealthy planter and a formerly indentured servant, was orphaned young and grew up working hard, practicing frugality and piety.