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McKinley is the only president to include exclusively Christian language in his Thanksgiving Day proclamation. [81] Theodore Roosevelt – Dutch Reformed [82] Roosevelt always stated that he was Dutch Reformed; however, he attended Episcopal churches where there was no Reformed church nearby.
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.He was the first Democrat to win the presidency after the Civil War and was one of only two presidents to be elected to serve non-consecutive terms.
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
No. Name Term Religious affiliation 1: John Adams: 1789–1797: Unitarian originally Congregationalist: 2: Thomas Jefferson: 1797–1801: Christian Deist/Deist.Although raised as an Anglican, Jefferson later in life rejected the idea of the divinity of Jesus and became a deist.
Hanson died only days after his only term as President ended, and many soon forgot him. His Maryland home was torn down in the 1980s and later replaced with a replica, according to Yahoo.
Barack Obama is thus far the only president to have ancestry from outside of Europe; his paternal family is of Kenyan Luo ancestry. He is also believed to be a direct descendant of John Punch, a colonial-era slave born in modern-day Cameroon. [2] There is no evidence that any president has had Indigenous American ancestry.
[16] [17] Only former President John F. Kennedy and President Joe Biden were raised in Roman Catholic families. Two former presidents, Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover, were raised as Quakers. All the rest were raised in families affiliated with Protestant Christianity. However, many presidents have themselves had only a nominal affiliation ...
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were one of America's most beloved and widely recognized couples — but their marriage wasn't without scandal — even before they wed. It's ...