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Show NO PRESIDENT A BAPTIST. Nation's Executives nave Been Members Mem-bers of Numerous Religious I Denominations, Although tho Haptlst denomination Is 'one of tho most numerous In tho' United States, thcro has never been a Baptist president. Thero havo been two Congregational presidents John Qulncy Adams, tho second president, nnd John Qulncy Adams, his son. President Itoosavelt is tho second president of tho Reformed Dutch churcn, Martin Van Buren havlng'becn tho first. , Millard Flllmoro win a Unitarian, the only Unitarian prcsldont. Washington, William Henry Harrison, Harri-son, John Tyler and Znchary Taylcr were Episcopalians, as was Chester A. Arthur. There havo been nvo Presbytorian presidents Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Benjamin Harrison Har-rison and .drover Cleveland. President flnrflold vena' n mnmhar nt the Church cf the Disciples. Prlor'to tho civil war there had beon no Methodist president of the United States. Since 1801 tho following presidents presi-dents havo been Methodists: Abraham Lincoln, Johnson, (Jen Grant, R. B. Hayes and William McKInley. |