Abigail Anne 'Abbey' Barrington Bartlet, M.D. was a fictional character played by Stockard Channing on the television serial drama The West Wing. In the show, she is the First Lady of the United States, the wife of President Josiah Bartlet.
Abbey is a world-class physician and wife of more than thirty years to President Bartlet (in the first season episode "Five Votes Down," President Bartlet mentioned to Charlie that they had been married 32 yea...
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Abigail Anne 'Abbey' Barrington Bartlet, M.D. was a fictional character played by Stockard Channing on the television serial drama The West Wing. In the show, she is the First Lady of the United States, the wife of President Josiah Bartlet.
Abbey is a world-class physician and wife of more than thirty years to President Bartlet (in the first season episode "Five Votes Down," President Bartlet mentioned to Charlie that they had been married 32 years- meaning they were married in 1967). Her maiden name is Barrington. The location of her undergraduate education is unknown. However, President Bartlet once confided in C.J. Cregg (his then press secretary) that he'd changed his mind about becoming a priest during his undergraduate years at Notre Dame after meeting Abbey. It is unlikely that Abbey attended Notre Dame, because the University did not admit female students before 1972; however, Notre Dame's sister school, Saint Mary's College, was established in 1844, so the young Ms....
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