Post by Charity on Feb 24, 2004 22:49:55 GMT -5
In his book Original Intent David Barton gives an impressive list of these founders that without doubt claimed to be Christian in their faith. I simply include their names and their positions. The chapter that this information comes from comprises about 15 pages of typed material. Below you will find a list of 79 of our founding fathers who embraced Christian principles. I would challenge someone to find a list 79 deist or atheists from among the founding fathers.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN (SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION): Chaplain in the American Revolution for two years.
ALBION PARRIS (GOVERNOR OF MAINE): Manager of the American Sunday School Union.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON (SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION): Proposed formation of the Christian Constitutional Society to spread Christian government to other nations.
ANDREW KIRKPATRICK (CHIEF-JUSTICE OF NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT): Vice-President of the New jersey Bible Society; Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
BENJAMIN LINCOLN (REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL; LT. GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS): Member of the Society for the Propagating of the Gospel among the Indians and Others.
BENJAMIN RUSH (SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION): Founder and manager of the Philadelphia Bible Society.
BUSHROD WASHINGTON (U. S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE): Vice-President of the American Bible Society; Vice-President of the American Sunday School Union.
CALEB STRONG (CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION; U. S. SENATOR; GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS): Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
CHARLES CARROLL, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY (SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION): President of the Charleston Bible Society; Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH (GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND; U. S. REPRESENTATIVE): Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
DANIEL BOONE, REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; LEGISLATOR
DANIEL TOMPKINS (GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK; VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE U. S.): Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
DANIEL WEBSTER
DAVID BREARLEY, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
DAVID LAWRENCE MORRIL (GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE; U. S. SENATOR): Vice-President of the American Bible Society; Manager in the American Sunday School Union.
DEWITT CLINTON (GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK; U. S. SENATOR; INTRODUCED THE TWELFTH AMENDMENT): Manager and Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
ELLAS BOUDINOT (PRESIDENT OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS): Founder and first President of the American Bible Society;President of the New Jersey Bible Society; of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; member of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
FELIX GRUNDY (U. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL; U. S. SENATOR; U. S. CONGRESSMAN): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
FRANCIS DANA (MEMBER OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS; CHIEF JUSTICE OF MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME COURT; U. S. MINISTER TO RUSSIA): Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others.
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY (ATTORNEY; AUTHOR OF 'THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER"): Manager and Vice-President of the American Sunday School Union.
GABRIEL DUVALL, SELECTED AS DELEGATE TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION; U. S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
GEORGE MADISON (GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
GEORGE MASON, FATHER OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS
GEORGE WASHINGTON
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, PENMAN AND SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
GUNNING BEDFORD, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
INCREASE SUMNER (GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS): Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others.
ISAAC SHELBY (REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
JACOB BROOM, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
JAMES BOWDOIN (GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS): Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others.
JAMES BROWN (U. S. SENATOR; DIPLOMAT): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
JAMES BURRILL, JR. (CHIEF-JUSTICE OF RHODE ISLAND SUPREME COURT; U. S. SENATOR): President of the Providence Auxiliary Bible Society.
JAMES IREDELL, U. S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
JAMES KENT, FATHER OF AMERICAN JURISPRUDENCE
JAMES MADISON
JAMES MCHENRY (SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION): President of the Baltimore Bible Society.
JAMES SULLIVAN (GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS; U. S. CONGRESSMAN): Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others.
JOEL BARLOW (DIPLOMAT UNDER WASHINGTON AND ADAMS): Chaplain in the American Revolution for three years.
JOHN ADAMS
JOHN BROOKS (GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS; REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL): President of Middlesex County Bible Society.
JOHN COTTON SMITH (GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT; U. S. CONGRESSMAN): President of the Litchfield County Foreign Missionary Society; first President of the Connecticut Bible Society; President of the American Bible Society; President of the American Board of Foreign Missions.
JOHN DAVENPORT (REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; U. S. CONGRESS): Member of the Missionary Society of Connecticut.
JOHN thingyINSON, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
JOHN HAMILTON (MAJOR~GENERAL IN THE REVOLUTION; U. S. CONGRESS): Member of the New Jersey Bible Society.
JOHN HART, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
JOHN JAY (ORIGINAL CHIEF-JUSTICE OF THE U. S. SUPREME COURT): President of the American Bible Society; member of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
JOHN LANGDON (SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION): Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
JOHN LOWELL (REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; MEMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS): Member of the Society for the Propagating of the Gospel among the Indians and Others.
JOHN MARSHALL (CHIEF-JUSTICE OF THE U. S. SUPREME COURT; SECRETARY OF STATE; REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL): Vice-President of the American Bible Society; officer in the American Sunday School Union.
JOHN MORTON, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: Vice-President of the American Bible Society; of the Massachusetts Bible Society.
JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE, U. S. CONGRESSMAN; U. S. DIPLOMAT
JOHN TREADWELL (GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT; MEMBER OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS): Member of the Missionary Society of Connecticut.
JOHN WITHERSthingy, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
JONAS GALUSHA (GOVERNOR OF VERMONT): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT
JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD (GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY): Member of the New Jersey Bible Society.
JOSEPH NOURSE (REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; U. S. TREASURY): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
JOSIAH BARTLETT, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE (REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL): Member of the American Sunday School Union.
PATRICK HENRY
PETER VROOM (GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY; U. S. CONGRESSMAN): Vice-President of the American Bible Society; member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
RICHARD STOCKTON, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
ROBERT TREAT PAINE (SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION): Military Chaplain.
ROBERT TROUP (FEDERAL JUDGE; SECRETARY OF WAR): Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
ROGER SHERMAN, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION; SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
RUFUS KING (SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION): Selected as manager@ of the American Bible Society.
RUFUS PUTNAM (REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL; FEDERAL JUDGE): President of the Ohio Bible Society.
SAMUEL ADAMS, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
SAMUEL DEXTER (SECRETARY OF WAR UNDER ADAMS; U. S. CONGRESSMAN; U. S. SENATOR): Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others.
SMITH THOMPSON (U. S. SUPREME COURT; SECRETARY OF NAVY): Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
THOMAS POSEY (REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; GOVERNOR OF INDIANA; U. S. SENATOR): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
THOMAS WORTHINGTON (GOVERNOR OF OHIO; U. S. SENATOR): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
TIMOTHY PICKERING, REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL; SECRETARY OF STATE
WILLIAM GASTON (CHIEF-JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT; U. S. REPRESENTATIVE): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
WILLIAM GRAY (LT. GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS; U. S. SENATOR): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
WILLIAM JONES (GOVERNOR OF RHODE ISLAND): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS (LT GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS FOR TERMS): President of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians; President of the Massachusetts Bible Society; member of the American Board of Foreign Missions; Vice-President of the American Bible Society; President of the American Society for Educating Pious Youth for the Gospel Ministry.
WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
WILLIAM TILGHMAN (FEDERAL JUDGE; CHIEF-JUSTICE OF PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
WILLIAM WIRT ( U. S. ATTORNEY-GENERAL UNDER TWO PRESIDENTS): Manager of the American Sunday School Union; Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
ZEPHANIAH SWIFT, AUTHOR OF AMERICA'S FIRST LEGAL TEXT
Although Benjamin Franklin is not in this list and never claimed to be a Christian, he has left us a marvelous testimony of the nature of the people of America.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN (SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION): Chaplain in the American Revolution for two years.
ALBION PARRIS (GOVERNOR OF MAINE): Manager of the American Sunday School Union.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON (SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION): Proposed formation of the Christian Constitutional Society to spread Christian government to other nations.
ANDREW KIRKPATRICK (CHIEF-JUSTICE OF NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT): Vice-President of the New jersey Bible Society; Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
BENJAMIN LINCOLN (REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL; LT. GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS): Member of the Society for the Propagating of the Gospel among the Indians and Others.
BENJAMIN RUSH (SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION): Founder and manager of the Philadelphia Bible Society.
BUSHROD WASHINGTON (U. S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE): Vice-President of the American Bible Society; Vice-President of the American Sunday School Union.
CALEB STRONG (CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION; U. S. SENATOR; GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS): Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
CHARLES CARROLL, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY (SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION): President of the Charleston Bible Society; Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH (GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND; U. S. REPRESENTATIVE): Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
DANIEL BOONE, REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; LEGISLATOR
DANIEL TOMPKINS (GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK; VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE U. S.): Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
DANIEL WEBSTER
DAVID BREARLEY, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
DAVID LAWRENCE MORRIL (GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE; U. S. SENATOR): Vice-President of the American Bible Society; Manager in the American Sunday School Union.
DEWITT CLINTON (GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK; U. S. SENATOR; INTRODUCED THE TWELFTH AMENDMENT): Manager and Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
ELLAS BOUDINOT (PRESIDENT OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS): Founder and first President of the American Bible Society;President of the New Jersey Bible Society; of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; member of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
FELIX GRUNDY (U. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL; U. S. SENATOR; U. S. CONGRESSMAN): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
FRANCIS DANA (MEMBER OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS; CHIEF JUSTICE OF MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME COURT; U. S. MINISTER TO RUSSIA): Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others.
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY (ATTORNEY; AUTHOR OF 'THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER"): Manager and Vice-President of the American Sunday School Union.
GABRIEL DUVALL, SELECTED AS DELEGATE TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION; U. S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
GEORGE MADISON (GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
GEORGE MASON, FATHER OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS
GEORGE WASHINGTON
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, PENMAN AND SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
GUNNING BEDFORD, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
INCREASE SUMNER (GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS): Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others.
ISAAC SHELBY (REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
JACOB BROOM, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
JAMES BOWDOIN (GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS): Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others.
JAMES BROWN (U. S. SENATOR; DIPLOMAT): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
JAMES BURRILL, JR. (CHIEF-JUSTICE OF RHODE ISLAND SUPREME COURT; U. S. SENATOR): President of the Providence Auxiliary Bible Society.
JAMES IREDELL, U. S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
JAMES KENT, FATHER OF AMERICAN JURISPRUDENCE
JAMES MADISON
JAMES MCHENRY (SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION): President of the Baltimore Bible Society.
JAMES SULLIVAN (GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS; U. S. CONGRESSMAN): Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others.
JOEL BARLOW (DIPLOMAT UNDER WASHINGTON AND ADAMS): Chaplain in the American Revolution for three years.
JOHN ADAMS
JOHN BROOKS (GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS; REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL): President of Middlesex County Bible Society.
JOHN COTTON SMITH (GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT; U. S. CONGRESSMAN): President of the Litchfield County Foreign Missionary Society; first President of the Connecticut Bible Society; President of the American Bible Society; President of the American Board of Foreign Missions.
JOHN DAVENPORT (REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; U. S. CONGRESS): Member of the Missionary Society of Connecticut.
JOHN thingyINSON, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
JOHN HAMILTON (MAJOR~GENERAL IN THE REVOLUTION; U. S. CONGRESS): Member of the New Jersey Bible Society.
JOHN HART, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
JOHN JAY (ORIGINAL CHIEF-JUSTICE OF THE U. S. SUPREME COURT): President of the American Bible Society; member of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
JOHN LANGDON (SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION): Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
JOHN LOWELL (REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; MEMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS): Member of the Society for the Propagating of the Gospel among the Indians and Others.
JOHN MARSHALL (CHIEF-JUSTICE OF THE U. S. SUPREME COURT; SECRETARY OF STATE; REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL): Vice-President of the American Bible Society; officer in the American Sunday School Union.
JOHN MORTON, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: Vice-President of the American Bible Society; of the Massachusetts Bible Society.
JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE, U. S. CONGRESSMAN; U. S. DIPLOMAT
JOHN TREADWELL (GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT; MEMBER OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS): Member of the Missionary Society of Connecticut.
JOHN WITHERSthingy, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
JONAS GALUSHA (GOVERNOR OF VERMONT): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT
JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD (GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY): Member of the New Jersey Bible Society.
JOSEPH NOURSE (REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; U. S. TREASURY): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
JOSIAH BARTLETT, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE (REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL): Member of the American Sunday School Union.
PATRICK HENRY
PETER VROOM (GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY; U. S. CONGRESSMAN): Vice-President of the American Bible Society; member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
RICHARD STOCKTON, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
ROBERT TREAT PAINE (SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION): Military Chaplain.
ROBERT TROUP (FEDERAL JUDGE; SECRETARY OF WAR): Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
ROGER SHERMAN, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION; SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
RUFUS KING (SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION): Selected as manager@ of the American Bible Society.
RUFUS PUTNAM (REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL; FEDERAL JUDGE): President of the Ohio Bible Society.
SAMUEL ADAMS, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
SAMUEL DEXTER (SECRETARY OF WAR UNDER ADAMS; U. S. CONGRESSMAN; U. S. SENATOR): Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others.
SMITH THOMPSON (U. S. SUPREME COURT; SECRETARY OF NAVY): Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
THOMAS POSEY (REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; GOVERNOR OF INDIANA; U. S. SENATOR): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
THOMAS WORTHINGTON (GOVERNOR OF OHIO; U. S. SENATOR): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
TIMOTHY PICKERING, REVOLUTIONARY GENERAL; SECRETARY OF STATE
WILLIAM GASTON (CHIEF-JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT; U. S. REPRESENTATIVE): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
WILLIAM GRAY (LT. GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS; U. S. SENATOR): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
WILLIAM JONES (GOVERNOR OF RHODE ISLAND): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS (LT GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS FOR TERMS): President of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians; President of the Massachusetts Bible Society; member of the American Board of Foreign Missions; Vice-President of the American Bible Society; President of the American Society for Educating Pious Youth for the Gospel Ministry.
WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON, SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION
WILLIAM TILGHMAN (FEDERAL JUDGE; CHIEF-JUSTICE OF PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT): Original Officer of the American Bible Society.
WILLIAM WIRT ( U. S. ATTORNEY-GENERAL UNDER TWO PRESIDENTS): Manager of the American Sunday School Union; Vice-President of the American Bible Society.
ZEPHANIAH SWIFT, AUTHOR OF AMERICA'S FIRST LEGAL TEXT
Although Benjamin Franklin is not in this list and never claimed to be a Christian, he has left us a marvelous testimony of the nature of the people of America.