President of the United States of America/religious affiliations

1. George Washington – Washington was known to his friends as one who rejected Christianity; his membership in a church was merely formal. Historian Barry Schwartz writes that Washington's "practice of Christianity was limited and superficial, because he was not himself a Christian. In the enlightened tradition of his day, he was a devout Deist--just as many of the clergymen who knew him suspected" (George Washington: The Making of An American Symbol, p.175) Many sources, however, list him as an Episcopalian

2. John Adams – Unitarian

3. Thomas Jefferson – No official affiliations, his beliefs were primarily Deist, and are considered very close to Unitarian. The Famous UUs website at http://www.famousuus.com says:

Like many others of his time (he died just one year after the founding of institutional Unitarianism in America), Jefferson was a Unitarian in theology, though not in church membership. He never joined a Unitarian congregation: there were none near his home in Virginia during his lifetime. He regularly attended Joseph Priestley's Pennsylvania church when he was nearby, and said that Priestley's theology was his own, and there is no doubt Priestley should be identified as Unitarian. Jefferson remained a member of the Episcopal congregation near his home, but removed himself from those available to become godparents, because he was not sufficiently in agreement with the trinitarian theology.

4. James Madison – Episcopalian

5. James Monroe – Episcopalian

6. John Quincy Adams – Unitarian

7. Andrew Jackson – Presbyterian

8. Martin Van Buren – Dutch Reformed

9. William Henry Harrison – Episcopalian

10. John Tyler – Episcopalian; Deist

11. James Knox Polk – Presbyterian

12. Zachary Taylor – Episcopalian

13. Millard Fillmore – Unitarian

14. Franklin Pierce – Episcopalian

15. James Buchanan – Presbyterian

16. Abraham Lincoln – Christian; see Tbc/Abraham Lincoln)

17. Andrew Johnson – none

18. Ulysses S. Grant – Methodist

19. Rutherford B. Hayes – none

20. James Garfield – Disciples of Christ

21. Chester A. Arthur – Episcopalian

22. Grover Cleveland – Presbyterian

23. Benjamin Harrison – Presbyterian

24. Grover Cleveland – Presbyterian

25. William McKinley – Methodist

26. Theodore Roosevelt – Dutch Reformed

27. William Howard Taft – Unitarian

28. Woodrow Wilson – Presbyterian

29. Warren G. Harding – Baptist

30. Calvin Coolidge – Congregationalist

31. Herbert Hoover – Quaker

32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt – Episcopalian

33. Harry S Truman – Baptist

34. Dwight D. Eisenhower – Presbyterian

35. John F. Kennedy – Roman Catholic

36. Lyndon Johnson – Disciples of Christ

37. Richard Nixon – raised as a Quaker

38. Gerald R. Ford – Episcopalian

39. Jimmy Carter – Baptist

40. Ronald Reagan – Disciples of Christ

41. George H. W. Bush – Episcopalian

42. Bill Clinton – Baptist

43. George W. Bush – Methodist

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The Unitarian Church is the religious body extant today that had an ideology most closely resembling those who held by Deism.

Link: John Adams was a Deist (http://www.magicmartini.com/deism/johnadams.htm)

Link: Thomas Jefferson was a Deist (http://www.magicmartini.com/deism/jefferson.htm)

Link: Abraham Lincoln was a Deist (http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/steinlinc.htm)

See also : President of the United States of America