The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-03-08
WOODROW WILSON
9Th PRESBYTERIAN
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Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lin
coin, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland,
Benjamin Harrison and Woodrow Will
son. Five of these men We're Democrats,
beginning with Jackson, who was
Scotch Presbyterian Of rather strong
views. President Pierce was brought up
as Congregationalist, but Joined the
Presbyterian Church before he entered
the White House.
1t is an interesting fact that the last
two Democratic Presidents, Grover
Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, were
both sons of Presbyterian ministers.
The Episcopalian Presidents have been
George Washington, James Madison,
James Monroe, William Henry Harrison,
John Tyler, Zachary Taylor and Chester
A. Arthur President Washington wor-
shipped at Christ Church in Alexandria,
Va Some authorities put down William
Henry Harrison as a Presbyterian, but
there Is weight of evidence on the
which classes him as an Episcopalian.
THOUGHT JEFFERSON A NlNFIDEL.
Thomas Jeersffon is the only man in
the list of Presidents who cannot be
classed as member of any church.
During his occupancy of the White
House he attended several churche of
different denominations, but did not join
any of them. Many persons regarded
Jefferson as an infidel largely because
his tolerant religious views were not
much in keeping with the general spirit
of his times. His two daughters were
In,
France.
The four Methodist Presidents were
James K. Polk Ulysses S. Grant Ruther-
ford B. Hayes and William Mckinley.
President Polk sometimes attended
Presbyterian church in Washington, his
wife being a member of that denomina-
ton, but he never partook of commun
ion there.
FEW UNITARIAN CHURCHES.
The four Unitarian Presidents are John
Adams, John Quincy Adams, Milard
Fillmore and William Howard Taft. The
first two had to make the best of church
conditions in Washington as they found
them a century and more ago, for there
were no Unitarian churches here in those
days. John Adams had been brought up
as a Congregationalist but ultimately
became a Unitarian. While President
he divided his time between the Epis-
copal and the Methodist churches,
far as his public religious observance
went. John Quincy Adams round tho
same condition of affairs in Washington
as late as 1925, so he attended the Sec
ond Presbyterian Church during his oc-
cupancy of the White House. BY tho
time Fillmore became President in 1850,
a small Unitarian church had ocrn es-
tablished in the city and he attended it.
There is more than one Unitarian church
in Washington now. President Taft has
been an attendant at All Souls Church.
the pastor of which Rev. U. G. B, Pierce,
is chaplain of the United States Senate
WHERE ROOSEVELT WoRSHIPED.
The two Dutch Reformed Presidents
have ben Martin Van Buren, and Theo-
dore Roosevelt. President Van Buren,,
when he was inaugurated in 1897, found
himself in the same straits as the two
Adamses. There was no church of his
denomination in Washington. During
his Presidency he attended an Episcopal
church. President Roosevelt was in
somewhat similar circumstances. There
is no Dutch Reformed church in Wash
ington, so he attended the German Re
formed church.
President James A. Garfield was
member of the Church of the Disciples,
in which in his earlier days he had been
a preacher.
Not since William Mckinley was Pres
ldent has there been family IN the
White House where the husband ana
wife attended the same church but there
will be after March 1. While President
Roosevelt was of the Dutch Reformed
faith, his wife and children always at
tended St Johns Episcopal Church Mrs.
Taft attended the same church, while
her husband is a Unitarian. Both Wood
row Wilson and Mrs. Wilson are Presby-
terians, the latter being the daughter of
minister of that faith, just as her hus-
band is the son of a preacher of the
same denomination.
There is strong possibility that the
next Vice President of the UniteG States,
Thomas r. Marshall, may attend the
some church as the next President. Gov