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FAQ: Was President Truman the first Baptist president?
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The first, Warren G. Harding, served as the twenty-ninth president (1921-1923). Other Baptist presidents include the thirty-ninth president, Jimmy Carter (1977-1981), and the forty-second president, Bill Clinton (1993-01). |
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Religious affiliations of the presidents
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| Episcopalian | 10 | ||
| Presbyterian | 6 | ||
| Unitarian | 6 | ||
| Baptist | 4 | ||
| No formal affiliation | 4 | ||
| Disciples of Christ | 3 | ||
| Dutch Reformed | 2 | ||
| Methodist | 3 | ||
| Society of Friends | 2 | ||
| Congregationalist | 1 | ||
| Roman Catholic | 1 | ||
| United Church of Christ | 1 | ||
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43 men have served as president, with religious affiliations as follows: |
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| 1 | 1789-1797 | George Washington | Episcopalian |
| 2 | 1797-1801 | John Adams | Unitarian |
| 3 | 1801-1809 | Thomas Jefferson | No formal affiliation |
| 4 | 1809-1817 | James Madison | Episcopalian |
| 5 | 1817-1825 | James Monroe | Unitarian |
| 6 | 1825-1829 | John Quincy Adams | Unitarian |
| 7 | 1829-1837 | Andrew Jackson | Unitarian |
| 8 | 1837-1841 | Martin Van Buren | Dutch Reformed |
| 9 | 1841 | William Henry Harrison | Episcopalian |
| 10 | 1841-1845 | John Tyler | Episcopalian |
| 11 | 1845-1849 | James Know Polk | Presbyterian |
| 12 | 1849-1850 | Zachary Taylor | Episcopalian |
| 13 | 1850-1853 | Millard Fillmore | Unitarian |
| 14 | 1853-1857 | Franklin Pierce | Episcopalian |
| 15 | 1857-1861 | James Buchanan | Presbyterian |
| 16 | 1861-1865 | Abraham Lincoln | No formal affiliation |
| 17 | 1865-1869 | Andrew Johnson | No formal affiliation |
| 18 | 1869-1877 | Ulysses Simpson Grant | Methodist |
| 19 | 1877-1881 | Rutherford Birchard Hayes | No formal affiliation |
| 20 | 1881 | James Abram Garfield | Disciples of Christ |
| 21 | 1881-1885 | Chester Alan Arthur | Episcopalian |
| 22 | 1885-1889 | Grover Cleveland | Presbyterian |
| 23 | 1889-1893 | Benjamin A. Harrison | Presbyterian |
| 24 | 1893-1897 | Grover Cleveland | Presbyterian |
| 25 | 1897-1901 | William McKinley | Methodist |
| 26 | 1901-1909 | Theodore Roosevelt | Dutch Reformed |
| 27 | 1909-1913 | William Howard Taft | Unitarian |
| 28 | 1913-1921 | Woodrow Wilson | Presbyterian |
| 29 | 1921-1923 | Warren Gamaliel Harding | Baptist |
| 30 | 1923-1929 | Calvin Coolidge | Congregationalist |
| 31 | 1929-1933 | Herbert Clark Hoover | Society of Friends (Quakers) |
| 32 | 1933-1945 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Episcopalian |
| 33 | 1945-1953 | Harry S. Truman | Baptist |
| 34 | 1953-1961 | Dwight David Eisenhower | Presbyterian |
| 35 | 1961-1963 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | Roman Catholic |
| 36 | 1963-1969 | Lyndon Baines Johnson | Disciples of Christ |
| 37 | 1969-1974 | Richard Milhous Nixon | Society of Friends (Quakers) |
| 38 | 1974-1977 | Gerald Rudolph Ford | Episcopalian |
| 39 | 1977-1981 | James Earl Carter, Jr. | Baptist |
| 40 | 1981-1989 | Ronald WIlson Reagan | Disciples of Christ |
| 41 | 1989-1993 | George Herbert Walker Bush | Episcopalian |
| 42 | 1993-2001 | William Jefferson Clinton | Baptist |
| 43 | 2001-2009 | George W. Bush | Methodist |
| 44 | 2009- | Barack Hussein Obama | United Church of Christ |
Source: the Internet Public Library, "POTUS Presidents of the United States" (http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/)
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