List of Baptists - Politicians

Politicians

  • Carter, Jimmy, Nobel Peace Prize recipient; 39th President of the United States
  • Clinton, Bill, 42nd President of the United States
  • Colson, Chuck, former top aide to President Richard Nixon
  • Gore, Al, Vice-President of the United States from 1993 – 2001; 2000 Democratic presidential candidate, Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
  • Harding, Warren G., 29th President of the United States
  • Yukio Hatoyama, 60th Prime Minister of Japan.
  • Huckabee, Mike, (R) former governor of Arkansas and 2008 Presidential candidate
  • Jackson, Jesse Louis,American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997.
  • Johnson, Andrew, 17th President of the United States
  • Johnson, Richard M., United States Vice President under Martin Van Buren (1837–41)
  • Claude Kirkpatrick, former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and director of his state's department of public works; involved in various Baptist activities within Louisiana and through the Southern Baptist Convention
  • Lincoln, Abraham, 16th President of the United States. Lincoln was a Baptist but,for the sake of the country he kept it to himself as an adult
  • McCain, John, United States Senator (R) Arizona, Presidential candidate
  • Paul, Ron, United States Congressman (R) and former Libertarian Party Presidential candidate, who is known for his libertarian leanings.
  • Rockefeller, Nelson, U.S. Vice-President under Gerald Ford (1974–77)
  • Truman, Harry, 33rd President of the United States

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