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Religious Affiliation of U.S. Presidents

Keep in mind that in the table above, the % of the U.S. population for religious groups are current figures. Religious groups have had much different proportions at various time in U.S. history.

One of the most over-represented religious groups among U.S. presidents is Unitarianism. Despite merging with Universalism in the 1960s, the combined proportion of Unitarian Universalists in the U.S. population is just 0.2% of the population (one in every 500 Americans). Yet there have been 4 Unitarian presidents.

Another over-represented religious group among U.S. presidents is Dutch Reformed, by virtue of having two U.S. presidents, yet having only a small number of people left in the country who identify themselves as Reformed. The contemporary heir to the Dutch Reformed churches is the "Reformed Church in America," which has about 300,000 members in the U.S. and Canada. (Alternatively, one might count only a single president as Dutch Reformed, if Theodore Roosevelt is counted as an Episcopalian -- sources differ on this subject. Even just one Dutch Reformed president would constitute statistical over-representation.)

After that, Disciples of Christ, Episcopalians, and Quakers have also had representation in the White House far outstripping their proportion of the U.S. population.

On the other end of the scale, the most under-represented religious group is Catholicism, which has had only one U.S. president (John F. Kennedy), despite making up 26% of the current U.S. population. Also under-represented are Baptists, whose proportion of the U.S. population (18%) is twice their proportion of U.S. presidents (9.5%).

Major religious groups in the U.S. which have never had a U.S. president include: Lutherans (about 5% of the U.S. population); Jews (about 2% of the U.S. population); Latter-day Saints (2%); Pentecostals (about 1.8 %); Muslims (approx. 1 to 1.5%); Eastern Orthodox (approx. 1%); and Churches of Christ (1%).

Religion	Presidents who were Adherents
Episcopalian	George Washington James Madison James Monroe William Henry Harrison John Tyler Zachary Taylor Franklin Pierce Chester A. Arthur Theodore Roosevelt * Franklin Delano Roosevelt Gerald Ford George H. W. Bush
Presbyterian	Andrew Jackson James Knox Polk * Ulysses S Grant * James Buchanan Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison Woodrow Wilson Dwight D. Eisenhower Ronald Reagan
Methodist	James Knox Polk * Ulysses S Grant * Rutherford B. Hayes William McKinley George W. Bush
Baptist	Warren G. Harding Harry S. Truman Jimmy Carter William Jefferson Clinton
Unitarian	John Adams John Quincy Adams Millard Fillmore William Howard Taft
Disciples of Christ/ (그리스도의 교회/유악기,1968년 분열전)	James A. Garfield Lyndon Baines Johnson Ronald Reagan
no specific denomination	Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson
Dutch Reformed	Martin Van Buren Theodore Roosevelt *
Quaker	Herbert Hoover Richard M. Nixon
Congregationalist (연합그리스도의 교회)	Calvin Coolidge
Catholic	John F. Kennedy

#	President	Religion
1	George Washington	Episcopalian
2	John Adams	Unitarian
3	Thomas Jefferson	raised Episcopalian later in life, belonged to no specific religion held many Christian, Deist and Unitarian beliefs
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/Methodist
12	Zachary Taylor	Episcopalian
13	Millard Fillmore	Unitarian
14	Franklin Pierce	Episcopalian
15	James Buchanan	Presbyterian
16	Abraham Lincoln	raised Baptist; later no specific denomination
17	Andrew Johnson	no specific denomination
18	Ulysses S Grant	Presbyterian; Methodist *
19	Rutherford B. Hayes	Methodist
20	James A. Garfield	Disciples of Christ(그리스도의 교회/유악기)
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; Episcopalian
27	William Howard Taft	Unitarian
28	Woodrow Wilson	Presbyterian
29	Warren G. Harding	Baptist
30	Calvin Coolidge	Congregationalist(연합 그리스도의 교회)
31	Herbert Hoover	Quaker
32	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Episcopalian
33	Harry S. Truman	Baptist
34	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Jehovah's Witnesses; Presbyterian
35	John F. Kennedy	Catholic
36	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Disciples of Christ(그리스도의 교회/유악기)
37	Richard M. Nixon	Quaker
38	Gerald Ford	Episcopalian
39	Jimmy Carter	Baptist
40	Ronald Reagan	Disciples of Christ(그리스도의 교회/유악기)
41	George H. W. Bush	Episcopalian
42	William Jefferson Clinton	Baptist
43	George W. Bush	Methodist (former Episcopalian)

Major Sources: Kane, Joseph Nathan. Facts About the Presidents (Fourth Edition). New York: The H. W. Wilson Co. (1981), pg. 360; DeGregorio, William A. The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (Second Edition). New York: Dembner Books (1989)

Links

• Religious Affiliation of U.S. Vice-Presidents
• Religious Affiliation of U.S Congress
• Religious Affiliation of U.S. Governors
• Religious Affiliation of U.S. Supreme Court

• Dallas Morning News: Bush, fellow Methodists don't all see eye to eye - includes references to Adherents.com presidential statistics

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