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The topic is also of interest to religious groups and the general public who may appeal to senators of their denomination on religious or moral issues facing the United States Senate. This list reports the religious affiliation of the members of the United States Senate in the 119th United States Congress .
Senator Party Born Occupation(s) Previous elective office(s) Education Assumed office Class Residence [4] Alabama: Tommy Tuberville: Republican September 18, 1954 (age 70) Investment management firm partner
Al Smith is the first Catholic presidential candidate in major parties. In 1928, Al Smith became the first Roman Catholic to gain a major party's nomination for president. [74] His religion became an issue during the campaign and was one of the factors in his loss. Many feared that he would answer to the pope and not the constitution.
Derek Jones – first Mayor of Gaborone, Botswana 1966–68; Fred Nile – New South Wales Legislative Council (Australia) member and Fellowship of Congregational Churches minister; Andrew Young – civil rights activist; former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia; America's first African-American ambassador to the United Nations; United Church of Christ ...
The first United States Secretary of State in the Dalton administration, Vincent Marsh (portrayed by Brian Stokes Mitchell) is a former Senator who had ambitions of being President. He was killed in a plane crash over the Atlantic Ocean in 2014.
Robert John Cornell, O.Praem, (December 16, 1919 – May 10, 2009) was an American Catholic priest, professor, and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin from 1975 to 1979. [1]
Three Catholic priests have been elected to the House of Commons of Canada. Andrew Hogan was the first Catholic priest to serve as a Canadian Member of Parliament. First elected to represent the electoral district of Cape Breton—East Richmond, Nova Scotia, in the 1974 federal election, he was re-elected in 1979 but defeated in 1980.
Richard John Santorum (/ s æ n ˈ t ɔːr ə m / san-TOR-əm; born May 10, 1958) is an American politician, attorney, author, and political commentator who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2007.