List of House Chaplains
Information regarding past and current House Chaplains, taken from the official House of Representatives website, includes the following:
Number | Date of Appointment | Chaplain | Photo | Christian Denomination |
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1. | May 1, 1789 | William Linn | Presbyterian | |
2. | December 10, 1790 | Samuel Blair | Presbyterian | |
3. | November 5, 1792 | Ashbel Green | Presbyterian | |
4. | November 27, 1800 | Thomas Lyell | Methodist | |
5. | December 10, 1801 | William Parkinson | Baptist | |
6. | November 30, 1804 | James Laurie | Presbyterian | |
7. | December 4, 1806 | Robert Elliott | Presbyterian | |
8. | October 30, 1807 | Obadiah Bruen Brown | Baptist | |
9. | May 27, 1809 | Jesse Lee | Methodist | |
10. | November 13, 1811 | Nicholas Sneathen | Methodist | |
11. | November 6, 1812 | Jesse Lee | Methodist | |
12. | September 23, 1814 | Obadiah Bruen Brown | Baptist | |
13. | December 7, 1815 | Spencer Houghton Cone | Baptist | |
14. | December 5, 1816 | Burgiss Allison | Baptist | |
15. | November 16, 1820 | John Nicholson Campbell | Presbyterian | |
16. | December 10, 1821 | Jared Sparks | Unitarian | |
17. | December 5, 1822 | John Brackenridge, D.D. | Presbyterian | |
18. | December 8, 1823 | Henry Bidleman Bascom | Methodist | |
19. | December 9, 1824 | Reuben Post | Presbyterian | |
20. | December 13, 1830 | Ralph Randolph Gurley | Presbyterian | |
21. | December 13, 1831 | Reuben Post | Presbyterian | |
22. | December 12, 1832 | William Hammett | Methodist | |
23. | December 9, 1833 | Thomas H. Stockton | Methodist | |
24. | December 10, 1834 | Edward Dunlap Smith | Presbyterian | |
25. | December 24, 1835 | Thomas H. Stockton | Methodist | |
26. | December 20, 1836 | Oliver C. Comstock | Baptist | |
27. | September 12, 1837 | Septimus Tustin | Presbyterian | |
28. | December 11, 1837 | Levi R. Reese | Methodist | |
29. | February 4, 1840 | Joshua Bates | Congregationalist | |
30. | December 15, 1840 | Thomas W. Braxton | Baptist | |
31. | June 9, 1841 | John W. French | Episcopalian | |
32. | December 13, 1841 | John Newland Maffitt | Methodist | |
33. | December 14, 1842 | Frederick T. Tiffany | Episcopalian | |
34. | December 16, 1843 | Isaac S. Tinsley | Baptist | |
35. | December 4, 1844 | William Mitchel Daily | Methodist | |
36. | December 1, 1845 | William Henry Milburn | Methodist | |
37. | December 7, 1846 | William T.S. Sprole | Presbyterian | |
38. | December 6, 1847 | Ralph Gurley | Presbyterian | |
39. | December 1, 1851 | Littleton F. Morgan | Methodist | |
40. | December 6, 1852 | James Gallagher | Presbyterian | |
41. | December 5, 1853 | William Henry Milburn | Methodist | |
N/A | March 4, 1855 | None | N/A | |
42. | July 4, 1861 | Thomas H. Stockton | Methodist | |
43. | December 7, 1863 | William Henry Channing | Unitarian | |
44. | December 4, 1865 | Charles B. Boynton | Congregationalist | |
45. | March 4, 1869 | John George Butler | Lutheran | |
46. | December 6, 1875 | S.L. Townsend | Episcopalian | |
47. | October 15, 1877 | John Poise | Methodist | |
48. | December 3, 1877 | W.P. Harrison | Methodist | |
49. | December 5, 1881 | Frederick Dunglison Power | Disciples of Christ | |
50. | December 3, 1883 | John Summerfield Lindsay | Episcopalian | |
51. | December 7, 1885 | William Henry Milburn | Methodist | |
52. | August 7, 1893 | Samuel W. Haddaway | Methodist | |
53. | December 4, 1893 | Edward B. Bagby | Christian | |
54. | December 2, 1895 | Henry N. Couden | Universalist | |
55. | April 11, 1921 | James Shera Montgomery | Methodist | |
56. | January 3, 1950 | Bernard Braskamp | Presbyterian | |
57. | January 10, 1967 | Edward G. Latch | Methodist | |
58. | January 15, 1979 | James D. Ford | Lutheran | |
59. | March 23, 2000 | Daniel P. Coughlin | Roman Catholic | |
60. | May 25, 2011 | Patrick J. Conroy | Roman Catholic (Jesuit) |
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