Religious affiliations of vice presidents of the United States

The following is a list of religious affiliations of vice presidents of the United States.

No.	Name	Term	Religious affiliation
1	John Adams	1789–1797	Unitarian, formerly Congregationalist
2	Thomas Jefferson	1797–1801	Christian Deist/Deist. Although raised as an Anglican, Jefferson later in life rejected the idea of the divinity of Jesus and became a deist.^[1]
3	Aaron Burr	1801–1805	Presbyterian, later rejected the Resurrection of Jesus
4	George Clinton	1805–1812	Dutch Reformed
5	Elbridge Gerry	1813–1814	Episcopalian
6	Daniel D. Tompkins	1817–1825	Presbyterian
7	John C. Calhoun	1825–1832	Presbyterian; Unitarian
8	Martin Van Buren	1833–1837	Dutch Reformed
9	Richard M. Johnson	1837–1841	Baptist
10	John Tyler	1841	Episcopalian
11	George M. Dallas	1845–1849	Episcopalian
12	Millard Fillmore	1849–1850	Unitarian
13	William R. King	1853	Protestant
14	John C. Breckinridge	1857–1861	Presbyterian
15	Hannibal Hamlin	1861–1865	Protestant
16	Andrew Johnson	1865	No specific denomination, occasionally attended Methodist services with his wife.^[2]
17	Schuyler Colfax	1869–1873	Protestant
18	Henry Wilson	1873–1875	Congregationalist
19	William A. Wheeler	1877–1881	Presbyterian
20	Chester A. Arthur	1881	Episcopalian
21	Thomas A. Hendricks	1885	Presbyterian; Episcopalian
22	Levi P. Morton	1889–1893	Episcopalian, formerly Congregationalist^[3]
23	Adlai E. Stevenson	1893–1897	Presbyterian
24	Garret A. Hobart	1897–1899	Presbyterian^[4]
25	Theodore Roosevelt	1901	Dutch Reformed
26	Charles W. Fairbanks	1905–1909	Protestant
27	James S. Sherman	1909–1912	Reformed
28	Thomas R. Marshall	1913–1921	Presbyterian
29	Calvin Coolidge	1921–1923	Congregationalist
30	Charles G. Dawes	1925–1929	Presbyterian
31	Charles Curtis	1929–1933	Protestant
32	John Nance Garner	1933–1941	Protestant
33	Henry A. Wallace	1941–1945	Presbyterian; Episcopalian;
34	Harry S. Truman	1945	Baptist
35	Alben W. Barkley	1949–1953	Methodist
36	Richard Nixon	1953–1961	Quaker
37	Lyndon B. Johnson	1961–1963	Disciples of Christ
38	Hubert Humphrey	1965–1969	Lutheran; Methodist; Congregationalist
39	Spiro Agnew	1969–1973	Greek Orthodox; Episcopalian^[5] (baptized Episcopalian)^{[nb 1]}
40	Gerald Ford	1973–1974	Episcopalian
41	Nelson Rockefeller	1974–1977	Baptist
42	Walter Mondale	1977–1981	Presbyterian
43	George H. W. Bush	1981–1989	Episcopalian
44	Dan Quayle	1989-1993	Presbyterian
45	Al Gore	1993–2001	Southern Baptist
46	Dick Cheney	2001–2009	Methodist
47	Joe Biden	2009–2017	Catholic
48	Mike Pence	2017–2021	Evangelical, formerly Catholic^[7]
49	Kamala Harris	2021–2025	Baptist. Attended Hindu services with her mother as a child.^[8]
50	JD Vance	2025–present	Catholic,^[9] formerly Protestant

Affiliation
Protestant (all denominations)^[a]	48
Presbyterian	13
Episcopalian	11
Protestant (unspecified)^[a]	6
Baptist	5
Dutch Reformed	3
Congregationalist	4
Methodist	4
Unitarian	3
Catholic	2
Deist	1
Lutheran	1
Disciples of Christ	1
Evangelical	1
Greek Orthodox	1
Quaker	1

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