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This list reports the religious affiliation of the members of the United States Senate in the 119th United States Congress. In most cases, in addition to specific sources, the senators' religious affiliations are those mentioned by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life at the Pew Research Center , which publishes a report at the beginning ...
Still, Catholics were among the Founding Fathers and they were also a part of the First Congress; Daniel Carroll serving Maryland's 6th congressional district, [8] and Charles Carroll of Carrollton serving as the first senator from Maryland. [9] [10] Presidential candidates did not seek Catholic votes until Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay did so ...
William Tolbert- Member of the Liberian House of Representatives, Vice-President of Liberia, and last President of Liberia who represented the True Whig Party and the old Americo-Liberian aristocracy. Baptist minister and first African president of the Baptist World Alliance; Raphael Warnock – United States Senator from Georgia, elected ...
Jane Swift – first woman to serve as Massachusetts governor; William Howard Taft – 27th President of the United States; James Tate – first Catholic mayor of Philadelphia; George Taylor – signatory to the Declaration of Independence; Charles Thomson – secretary to the Continental Congress; Matthew Thornton – signatory to the ...
The following list reports the religious affiliation of the members of the United States House of Representatives in the 119th Congress.In most cases, besides specific sources, the current representatives' religious affiliations are those mentioned in regular researches by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life at the Pew Research Center.
Drinan went on to win election to the House of Representatives, and was re-elected four times, serving from 1971 until 1981. He was the first of two Catholic priests (the other being Robert John Cornell of Wisconsin) to serve as a voting member of Congress.
In that role, he directed Senate Republicans' communications operations and was a frequent party spokesperson. He was the youngest member of the Senate leadership and the first Pennsylvanian to hold such a prominent position since Senator Hugh Scott was Republican leader in the 1970s.
Fr. Cornell had a very pro-life record in congress, opposing abortion in all stages and situations, with strong support for the Hyde Amendment. [11] He was the second (after Father Robert Drinan) of only two Roman Catholic priests to serve as a voting representative in the United States Congress. [12]