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Tragically, the couple would suffer the loss of three children-a daughter in infancy and two sons in adulthood-and by some accounts, it was a largely unhappy match. After the elder John Adams was elected president in 1796, he made his son minister to Prussia (Germany).īefore leaving for Berlin, John Quincy Adams married Louisa Catherine Johnson, whom he met in London (she was the daughter of the American consul there).

In 1794, Washington appointed him as a U.S. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1790, after which he set up a law practice in Boston.ĭid you know? In a study conducted in 2008, a fitness chain concluded that John Quincy Adams was the fittest president in American history, thanks to his habit of walking more than three miles daily and swimming in the Potomac River during his presidency.Īs a young lawyer, Adams wrote articles defending the neutrality policy of George Washington’s presidential administration regarding the war between France and Britain in 1793. Adams returned to Massachusetts in 1785 and entered Harvard College, graduating two years later. He accompanied his father on a diplomatic mission to France when he was 10, and would later study at European universities, eventually becoming fluent in seven languages. As a young boy, John Quincy watched the famous Battle of Bunker Hill (June 1775) from a hilltop near the family farm with his mother. Born on July 11, 1767, in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, John Quincy Adams was the second child and first son of John and Abigail Adams.