Religious Affilation by American Presidents
Episcopalian
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
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 *
Rutherford B. Hayes *
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
James A. Garfield
Lyndon B. 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
United Church of Christ
Barack Hussein Obama*
Congregationalist
John Adams *
Calvin Coolidge
Catholic
John F. Kennedy
Jehovah's Witnesses
Dwight D. Eisenhower *
River Brethren Dwight D. Eisenhower *
* (Changed their religious affliations)
Presidential Religious Affiliations
1 George Washington Episcopalian
2 John Adams Congregationalist (raised); Unitarian
3 Thomas Jefferson raised Episcopalian; later no specific denomination
held Christian, Deist, Unitarian beliefs
4 James Madison Episcopalian (deist?)
5 James Monroe Episcopalian (deist?)
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 (deist)
17 Andrew Johnson Christian (no specific denomination)
18 Ulysses S Grant Presbyterian; Methodist
19 Rutherford B. Hayes Presbyterian; Methodist (?)
20 James A. 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; Episcopalian
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 Southern Baptist
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower River Brethren; Jehovah's Witnesses; Presbyterian
35 John F. Kennedy Catholic
36 Lyndon B. Johnson Disciples of Christ
37 Richard M. Nixon Quaker
38 Gerald Ford Episcopalian
39 Jimmy Carter Baptist (former Southern Baptist)
40 Ronald Reagan Disciples of Christ; Presbyterian
41 George H. W. Bush Episcopalian
42 William Jefferson Clinton Baptist
43 George W. Bush Methodist (former Episcopalian)
44 Barack Hessein Obama (former Trinity United Church of Christ)
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