The Religious Affiliation of US Presidents–see if you can Guess the Top Three Church Bodies

You get a hint–the first has ten, the second eight, and the third four. Take a guess at which demonimations they are and then read it all.

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4 comments on “The Religious Affiliation of US Presidents–see if you can Guess the Top Three Church Bodies

  1. KevinBabb says:

    Some of his biographers believe that it is an open question as to whether Theodore Roosevelt considered himself to be Dutch Reformed or Episcopal. I have seen this comment made in other charts similar to the one used in this article.

  2. KevinBabb says:

    Also–can the Episcopal Church get partial credit for George Bush, since he was an Episcopalian until he married a United Methodist?

  3. TomRightmyer says:

    The suggestion that John Adams was a Unitarian is anachronistic. His biographers disagree about his religious beliefs. He appears to have been a liberal Congregationalist but neither a deist nor a denominational Unitarian.

  4. Dick Mitchell says:

    George W. was certainly more of an Episcopalian than Dick Nixon was a Quaker. Nixon’s mom was a Quaker, and he may have been reared in the Quaker church, but he went off to war in the US Navy and it’s not clear he ever darkened the door of a Friends meeting house thereafter. In the White House he regularly organized non-denominational religious services in the East Room on Sunday mornings.