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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (847488)4/3/2015 7:52:19 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 1577030
 
And we owe that to our mostly Christian founding fathers.

Signers of the Constitution:

Religious Affiliation# of
delegates% of
delegates
Episcopalian/Anglican3156.4%
Presbyterian1629.1%
Congregationalist814.5%
Quaker35.5%
Catholic23.6%
Methodist23.6%
Lutheran23.6%
Dutch Reformed23.6%
TOTAL55100%

Name of SignerStateReligious Affiliation
Daniel CarrollMaryland Catholic
Thomas FitzsimonsPennsylvania Catholic
Roger ShermanConnecticut Congregationalist
Nathaniel GorhamMassachusetts Congregationalist
John LangdonNew Hampshire Congregationalist
Nicholas GilmanNew Hampshire Congregationalist
Abraham BaldwinGeorgia Congregationalist; Episcopalian
William Samuel JohnsonConnecticut Episcopalian; Presbyterian
James Madison Jr.Virginia Episcopalian
George ReadDelaware Episcopalian
Daniel of St. Thomas JeniferMaryland Episcopalian
David BrearlyNew Jersey Episcopalian
Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr.North Carolina Episcopalian
Robert MorrisPennsylvania Episcopalian
Gouverneur MorrisPennsylvania Episcopalian
John RutledgeSouth Carolina Episcopalian
Charles Cotesworth PinckneySouth Carolina Episcopalian
Charles PinckneySouth Carolina Episcopalian
Pierce ButlerSouth Carolina Episcopalian
George WashingtonVirginia Episcopalian
Benjamin FranklinPennsylvania Episcopalian (Deist)
William BlountNorth Carolina Episcopalian; Presbyterian
James WilsonPennsylvania Episcopalian; Presbyteran
Rufus KingMassachusetts Episcopalian; Congregationalist
Jacob BroomDelaware Lutheran
William FewGeorgia Methodist
Richard BassettDelaware Methodist
Gunning Bedford Jr.Delaware Presbyterian
James McHenryMaryland Presbyterian
William LivingstonNew Jersey Presbyterian
William PatersonNew Jersey Presbyterian
Hugh WilliamsonNorth Carolina Presbyterian
Jared IngersollPennsylvania Presbyterian
Alexander HamiltonNew York Huguenot; Presbyterian; Episcopalian
Jonathan DaytonNew Jersey Presbyterian; Episcopalian
John BlairVirginia Presbyterian; Episcopalian
John DickinsonDelaware Quaker; Episcopalian
George ClymerPennsylvania Quaker; Episcopalian
Thomas MifflinPennsylvania Quaker; Lutheran

Name of Non-Signing DelegateStateReligious Affiliation
Oliver EllsworthConnecticut Congregationalist
Caleb StrongMassachusetts Congregationalist
John Lansing, Jr.New York Dutch Reformed
Robert YatesNew York Dutch Reformed
William HoustounGeorgia Episcopalian
William Leigh PierceGeorgia Episcopalian
Luther MartinMaryland Episcopalian
John F. MercerMaryland Episcopalian
Elbridge GerryMassachusetts Episcopalian
George MasonVirginia Episcopalian
Edmund J. RandolphVirginia Episcopalian
George WytheVirginia Episcopalian
James McClurgVirginia Presbyterian
William C. HoustonNew Jersey Presbyterian
William R. DavieNorth Carolina Presbyterian
Alexander MartinNorth Carolina Presbyterian


Counting signers of the Declaration, Articles of Confederation and Constitution:

Religious Affiliation
of U.S. Founding Fathers# of
Founding
Fathers% of
Founding
Fathers
Episcopalian/Anglican8854.7%
Presbyterian3018.6%
Congregationalist2716.8%
Quaker74.3%
Dutch Reformed/German Reformed63.7%
Lutheran53.1%
Catholic31.9%
Huguenot31.9%
Unitarian31.9%
Methodist21.2%
Calvinist10.6%
TOTAL204

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