Religious affiliations of Presidents of the United States

1. George Washington - Washington's own contemporaries did not question his
Christianity but were thoroughly convinced of his devout faith--a fact made
evident in the first-ever compilation of "The Writings of George
Washington", published in the 1830s, which includes his writing "You do well
to learn . . . above all the religion of Jesus Christ". Many sources, list
him as an Episcopalian

2. John Adams - Unitarian Several John Adams quotes include: ÒThe highest
glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble
bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.Ó

Speaking of July 4, 1776) - ÒI am apt to believe that it will be celebrated
by succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be
commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God
Almighty.Ó

ÒWe have no government armed with power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and religion...Our Constitution was made only
for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government
of any other.Ó

3. Thomas Jefferson - No official affiliations, his beliefs were primarily
Deist, and are considered very close to Unitarian.

     Like many others of his time (he died just one year after the founding
     of institutional Unitarianism in America), Jefferson was a Unitarian in
     theology, though not in church membership. He never joined a Unitarian
     congregation: there were none near his home in Virginia during his
     lifetime. He regularly attended Joseph Priestley's Pennsylvania church
     when he was nearby, and said that Priestley's theology was his own, and
     there is no doubt Priestley should be identified as Unitarian.
     Jefferson remained a member of the Episcopal congregation near his
     home, but removed himself from those available to become godparents,
     because he was not sufficiently in agreement with the trinitarian
     theology.

4. James Madison - Episcopalian

5. James Monroe - Episcopalian

6. John Quincy Adams - Unitarian

7. Andrew Jackson - Presbyterian

8. Martin Van Buren - Dutch Reformed

9. William Henry Harrison - Episcopalian

10. John Tyler - Episcopalian; Deist

11. James Knox Polk - Presbyterian

12. Zachary Taylor - Episcopalian

13. Millard Fillmore - Unitarian

14. Franklin Pierce - Episcopalian

15. James Buchanan - Presbyterian

16. Abraham Lincoln - Christian

17. Andrew Johnson - none

18. Ulysses S. Grant - Methodist

19. Rutherford B. Hayes - none

20. James Garfield - Disciples of Christ

21. Chester A. Arthur - Episcopalian

22. Grover Cleveland - Presbyterian

23. Benjamin Harrison - Presbyterian

24. Grover Cleveland - Presbyterian

25. William McKinley - Methodist

26. Theodore Roosevelt - Dutch Reformed

27. William Howard Taft - Unitarian

28. Woodrow Wilson - Presbyterian

29. Warren G. Harding - Baptist

30. Calvin Coolidge - Congregationalist

31. Herbert Hoover - Quaker

32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Episcopalian

33. Harry S Truman - Baptist

34. Dwight D. Eisenhower - Presbyterian

35. John F. Kennedy - Roman Catholic

36. Lyndon Johnson - Disciples of Christ

37. Richard Nixon - Raised as a Quaker

38. Gerald R. Ford - Episcopalian

39. Jimmy Carter - Baptist

40. Ronald Reagan - Disciples of Christ

41. George H. W. Bush - Episcopalian

42. Bill Clinton - Baptist

43. George W. Bush - Methodist