Religion, perhaps now so more than ever, plays a pivotal role in how the media portrays the President of the United States. It’s common knowledge that Barack Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ. But what about the other 43 U.S. Presidents?
1 George Washington : Episcopalian
2 John Adams : Unitarian
3 Thomas Jefferson : Episcopalian; Unitarian beliefs
4 James Madison : Episcopalian; Unitarian beliefs
5 James Monroe : Episcopalian; Unitarian beliefs
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 : no specific denomination
17 Andrew Johnson : Christian (no specific denomination)
18 Ulysses S Grant : Presbyterian; Methodist
19 Rutherford B. Hayes : Presbyterian
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 : 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)
Sources for this list came from Adherants.com, and a great book called The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
