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  • Professor Emerita of History and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
Mary Washington helped her son develop into the leader he became. While her son was the subject of several portrait artists, there is no record that Mary ever was. Stock Montage/Getty Images

Mary Ball Washington, George’s single mother, often gets overlooked – but she’s well worth saluting

Martha Saxton, Amherst College

Mary Washington raised George and his four siblings mainly alone, imbuing in George many of his best traits. Historians have focused instead on George’s complaints about her.

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