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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 ...
James Renshaw Cox – US Presidency candidate and Catholic priest; Robert Drinan – Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, lawyer, human rights activist, and Democratic US Representative from Massachusetts; Jerome D'Souza – Indian Jesuit, member of the Constituent Assembly of India 1946–50; José Manuel Gallegos – Priest and New Mexico delegate ...
Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts was vying to become the nation's first Catholic president. A key factor that was hurting Kennedy in his campaign was the widespread prejudice against his Roman Catholic religion; some Protestants believed that, if he were elected president, Kennedy would have to take orders from the Pope in Rome .
The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. This list includes all senators serving in the 119th United States Congress.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton – the sole Catholic signatory of the American Declaration of Independence [18] Bob Casey Jr. – US Senator and former Pennsylvania state treasurer; Robert P. Casey – former Pennsylvania governor [19] Bill Cassidy – US Senator; Jerome Cavanagh – Detroit mayor; John Michael Clancy – US Congressman [20]
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 ...
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 .
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.