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Noe I. All said...
James K. Polk was elected POTUS, eventually baptised Methodist, then died a week later.
William Jennings Bryan actually won his case versus Clarence Darrow, but he died less than a week later.
Unitarian Universalists in the U.S. population comprise just 0.2% of the population (one in every 500 Americans). Yet there have been 4 Unitarian presidents. Adams, Adams, Filmore, Taft.
JQ Adams (N.B. one of the founding members of the All Souls Unitarian congregation in Washington) regularly swam nude in the Potomac River. Anne Royall knew of Adams' 5 A.M. swims. After being refused interviews with the president time after time, she went to the river, gathered his clothes and sat on them until she had her interview. Before this, no female had interviewed a president.
Judge's ruling: While Thomas Jefferson was raised Anglican (later, Episcopalian), his writings and beliefs --esp. those regarding Jesus --were very Unitarian. In 1822 he wrote that "there is not a young man now living in the US who will not die an Unitarian." True, he never joined a Unitarian congregation. There was no Unitarian congregation in Virginia in his lifetime. Make that 5 presidents?
Noe I. All said...
James K. Polk was elected POTUS, eventually baptised Methodist, then died a week later.
William Jennings Bryan actually won his case versus Clarence Darrow, but he died less than a week later.
Unitarian Universalists in the U.S. population comprise just 0.2% of the population (one in every 500 Americans). Yet there have been 4 Unitarian presidents. Adams, Adams, Filmore, Taft.
JQ Adams (N.B. one of the founding members of the All Souls Unitarian congregation in Washington) regularly swam nude in the Potomac River. Anne Royall knew of Adams' 5 A.M. swims. After being refused interviews with the president time after time, she went to the river, gathered his clothes and sat on them until she had her interview. Before this, no female had interviewed a president.
Judge's ruling: While Thomas Jefferson was raised Anglican (later, Episcopalian), his writings and beliefs --esp. those regarding Jesus --were very Unitarian. In 1822 he wrote that "there is not a young man now living in the US who will not die an Unitarian." True, he never joined a Unitarian congregation. There was no Unitarian congregation in Virginia in his lifetime. Make that 5 presidents?
posted by Elizabeth at
12:53 PM
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Other famous UU who were NOT president:
Paul Newman
Rad Bradbury
Rod Serling
Keith Olbermann
You sure Rad Brad was an Unitarian?
http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/indexl.html
Hahvahd says so! Others say Vonnegut was too!
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