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There have been two Catholic President of the United States, John F. Kennedy and Joe Biden and two Vice Presidents of the United States, Joe Biden and JD Vance; however, Mike Pence was raised Catholic, but later described himself as an Evangelical Catholic. [89] First Lady Melania Trump was the first Catholic to live in the White House since ...
Catholic Democrats President Krueger, who conceived the event, was quoted in the National Catholic Reporter, saying it "was intended to be a bridge between Catholic involvement in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the unfinished business of the 1963 march today based on the Catholic social justice tradition. It is a 'next first step ...
Smith was the first Roman Catholic to be nominated for president of the United States by a major party. His 1928 presidential candidacy mobilized both Catholic and anti-Catholic voters. [2] Many Protestants (including German Lutherans and Southern Baptists) feared his candidacy, believing that the Pope in Rome would dictate his policies.
Trump decisively won Catholic vote in 2024. The pitch paid off. The Trump campaign won the group handily, carrying Catholics by an estimated 20-point margin, according to exit polls, flipping the ...
However, despite the anti-Catholic prejudice every presidential candidate since 1960 has honored Smith by going to the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner and in 1960 John F. Kennedy the first Catholic president said "When this happens then the bitter memory of 1928 will begin to fade, and all that will remain will be the figure of Al ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services Secretary, isn’t a practicing Catholic but is famously part of one of the nation’s most well-known family of Catholic Democrats.
Alfred E. Smith, for whom the foundation is named, was the former governor of New York and the first Catholic to win a major party nomination for president. Smith was elected to the governor's ...
Smith was the first Catholic nominated by a major party for President of the United States and the first non-incumbent Democrat to win his party's nomination on the first ballot since 1908.