The Monroe Journal

Religious Views and Church Connections of Our Presidents.

George Washington was a member of the Episcopal Church.

John Adams was a Congregationalist.

Thomas Jefferson's ideas on religion are difficult to classify. He was denounced from New England pulpits as a "Godless man." He belonged to no church.

John Quincy Adams was a Congregationalist.

Madison and Monroe were both Episcopalians in good standing.

Andrew Jackson was notoriously irreligious in his early manhood and mature life. After his retirement from the Presidency he became converted and joined the Presbyterian Church, his dying words being: "My dear children and friends and servants, I hope and trust to meet you all in Heaven, both white and black."

Martin Van Buren never made any religious profession, but was a man of irreproachable morality.

William Henry Harrison was an Episcopalian.

John Tyler was an Episcopalian.

James K. Polk made no confession but was sprinkled by a Methodist clergyman on his death bed.

Zachary Taylor gave the matter of religion no thought but contributed to the Episcopal Church to which his wife belonged.

Millard Fillmore affiliated with the Baptists.

Franklin Pierce was an Episcopalian.

James Buchanan became a Presbyterian after his Presidency.

Abraham Lincoln's parents were both Baptists.

Andrew Johnson inclined to Methodism.

Ulysses Grant was a Methodist.

Rutherford B. Hayes was a Methodist.

James A. Garfield was member of the Church of Christ.

Chester A. Arthur was an Episcopalian.

Benjamin Harrison was a Presbyterian.

Grover Cleveland was a Presbyterian.

William McKinley was a Methodist.

Theodore Roosevelt is a member of the Reformed Dutch Church and sometimes preaches from its pulpit.

William H. Taft is a Unitarian.

Hon. Woodrow Wilson is a highly respected Presbyterian.