Religious affiliations of Presidents of the United States
List of Presidents by religious affiliation

Religious affiliations of Presidents of the United States

Section Title: List of Presidents by religious affiliation
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Name	Religion	Branch	Further branch	Specific denomination	Years in office	Notes

Warren G. Harding	Christian	Protestant	Baptist	Northern Baptist	1921–1923

Harry S. Truman	Christian	Protestant	Baptist	Northern Baptist	1945–1953

Jimmy Carter	Christian	Protestant	Baptist	Southern Baptist	1977–1981	Later left the Southern Baptist Convention

Bill Clinton	Christian	Protestant	Baptist	Southern Baptist	1993-2001	Later left the Southern Baptist Convention

Calvin Coolidge	Christian	Protestant	Reformed	Congregationalist	1923–1929

James A. Garfield	Christian	Protestant	Restorationist	Disciples of Christ	1881–1881

Lyndon B. Johnson	Christian	Protestant	Restorationist	Disciples of Christ	1963–1969

Martin Van Buren	Christian	Protestant	Reformed	Dutch Reformed	1837–1841

Theodore Roosevelt	Christian	Protestant	Reformed	Dutch Reformed	1901–1909

Andrew Jackson	Christian	Protestant	Reformed	Presbyterian	1829–1837

James Buchanan	Christian	Protestant	Reformed	Presbyterian	1857–1861

Grover Cleveland	Christian	Protestant	Reformed	Presbyterian	1885–1889

Benjamin Harrison	Christian	Protestant	Reformed	Presbyterian	1889–1893

Woodrow Wilson	Christian	Protestant	Reformed	Presbyterian	1913–1921

Dwight D. Eisenhower	Christian	Protestant	Reformed	Presbyterian	1953–1961

Ronald Reagan	Christian	Protestant	Reformed	Presbyterian	1981–1989	Baptized into the Disciples of Christ but disaffiliated and became a member of Bel Air Presbyterian Church in his later years

Donald Trump	Christian	Protestant	Reformed	Presbyterian	2017–present

George Washington	Christian	Protestant	Anglican	Episcopalian	1789–1797	Baptized into the Church of England. It was reorganized as the Episcopal Church (USA) after the American Revolution.

James Madison	Christian	Protestant	Anglican	Episcopalian	1809–1817

James Monroe	Christian	Protestant	Anglican	Episcopalian	1817–1825

William Henry Harrison	Christian	Protestant	Anglican	Episcopalian	1841–1841

John Tyler	Christian	Protestant	Anglican	Episcopalian	1841–1845

Zachary Taylor	Christian	Protestant	Anglican	Episcopalian	1849–1850

Franklin Pierce	Christian	Protestant	Anglican	Episcopalian	1853–1857

Chester A. Arthur	Christian	Protestant	Anglican	Episcopalian	1881–1885

Franklin D. Roosevelt	Christian	Protestant	Anglican	Episcopalian	1933–1945

Gerald Ford	Christian	Protestant	Anglican	Episcopalian	1974–1977

George H. W. Bush	Christian	Protestant	Anglican	Episcopalian	1989–1993

James Polk	Christian	Protestant	Methodist	Methodist	1845–1849	Never baptized until on his deathbed. Formerly more or less affiliated with Presbyterian churches.

Ulysses Grant	Christian	Protestant	Methodist	Methodist	1869–1877

William McKinley	Christian	Protestant	Methodist	Methodist	1897–1901	Member of First Methodist Episcopal Church

George W. Bush	Christian	Protestant	Methodist	United Methodist	2001-2009	Former Episcopalian. Bush left his family's Episcopal Church to join his wife's United Methodist Church.

Herbert Hoover	Christian	Protestant	Quaker	N/A	1929–1933

Richard Nixon	Christian	Protestant	Quaker	N/A	1969–1974	Raised in an Evangelical Friends affiliated church.

John Adams	Christian	Nontrinitarian	Unitarian	N/A	1797–1801	Former Congregationalist. He later became a Unitarian, and dropped belief in predestination, eternal damnation, the divinity of Christ, and most other Calvinist beliefs of his Puritan ancestors.

John Quincy Adams	Christian	Nontrinitarian	Unitarian	N/A	1825–1829

Millard Fillmore	Christian	Nontrinitarian	Unitarian	N/A	1850–1853

William Howard Taft	Christian	Nontrinitarian	Unitarian	N/A	1909–1913

Barack Obama	Christian	Protestant	Unspecified Protestant	Various, including Episcopalian, Baptist and Methodist churches	2009–2017	Former United Church of Christ member. He left it as a presidential candidate during the Jeremiah Wright controversy in 2008.

Rutherford Hayes	Christian	Protestant	Unspecified Protestant	Presbyterian and Methodist churches	1877–1881

Andrew Johnson	Christian	Protestant	Unspecified Protestant	Not affiliated, but visited Methodist churches	1865–1869	Many historians consider Johnson the least religious, and the president who was least affiliated with any religious group or identifiable religious philosophy.

John F. Kennedy	Christian	Catholic	Roman Catholic	Catholic Church in the United States	1961–1963	Only Roman Catholic President to date.

Abraham Lincoln	None specified	1861–1865	Abraham Lincoln was raised in a Reformed Baptist family. Scholars and various sources have contradicting opinions as to whether or not Lincoln was a Christian.

Thomas Jefferson	None specified	1801–1809	Although raised as an Anglican, Jefferson later in life rejected the idea of the divinity of Jesus and became a deist.

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John F. Kennedy has been the only Roman Catholic president.

final_sentence: John F. Kennedy has been the only Roman Catholic president.