List of notable American Presbyterians

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The following are notable American Presbyterians:

• Jay E. Adams, pastor, author and founder of Nouthetic method of Christian counseling
• Dick Armey, former U.S. Representative; Republican from Texas
• Greg L. Bahnsen, philospher and theologian
• Kenneth B. Bell, Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
• L. Nelson Bell, missionary to China
• Lloyd Bentsen, former U.S. Senator and Representative from Texas; 1988 Democratic Party Vice Presidential nomeniee
• David Ross Boyd, first president of the University of Oklahoma
• John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States under Buchanan
• William Jennings Bryan of the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Tennessee 1925 and three times U.S. Presidential nominee for the Democratic Party
• James Buchanan, 15th U.S. President
• Frederick Buechner, author of fantasy novels and non-fiction religious books
• Aaron Burr, Jr., U.S. Vice-President under Jefferson
• Rev. Aaron Burr, Sr., co-founder of Princeton University
• John C. Calhoun, U.S. Vice-President under Adams and Jackson
• Andrew Carnegie, richest man in the world in the late 19th century
• Gordon Clark, philosopher and theologian
• Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th U.S. President
• Robert Lewis Dabney, Southern Presbyterian theologian
• Bob Dole, 1996 Republican nominee for President
• Elizabeth Dole, senior United States senator from North Carolina
• John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State in the Eisenhower Administration
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President
• John Frame, philosopher and theologian
• Bill Frist, current Senate Majority Leader
• Lamar Alexander, junior United States Senator from Tennessee
• Jay Rockefeller, junior United States Senator from West Virginia
• Mel Watt, Congressman from North Carolina and Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
• John L. Giradeau, Southern Presbyterian pastor
• John Glenn, Astronaut, United States Senator
• Ruth Bell Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham (her parents were Presbyterian missionaries)
• William Henry Green, Hebrew scholar
• John Marshall Harlan, Supreme Court Justice
• Katherine Harris, Florida Secretary of State during the 2000 election crisis and current congresswoman (R)
• Benjamin Harrison, 23rd U.S. President
• Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th U.S. President
• Patricia Heaton, famous portrayal of Debra Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond
• A. A. Hodge, Princeton Theological Seminary professor
• Charles Hodge, Princeton Theological Seminary professor
• Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President
• Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, General of the Confederate States of America
• Jack Kemp, former AFL and NFL pro football quarterback, U.S. Representative, Cabinet Secretary (HUD) under George H.W. Bush, 1996 running mate to GOP Presidential candidate Robert Dole, founder of Empower America
• D. James Kennedy, pastor and social conservative activist
• C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General
• Madeleine L'Engle, author, "A Wrinkle in Time" and other books
• David Letterman, famous talk show host who was raised a Presbyterian
• J. Gresham Machen, founder of Westminster Theological Seminary and one of the founders of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church
• Norman Maclean, author and academic
• James Russell Miller (1840-1912), author, editor and pastor
• William M. Miller, missionary to Persia (Iran)
• James Knox Polk, 11th U.S. President (converted from Presbyterianism to Methodism)
• Benjamin Morgan Palmer, Southern Presbyterian pastor
• John Murray, theologian, Westminster Theological Seminary professor
• Robert G. Rayburn, founding president of Covenant College
• Reverend John Rankin, American minister and abolitionist
• Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State (2005- )
• Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. President
• Fred Rogers, television presenter Mister Rogers, an ordained Presbyterian Minister
• Kenneth L. Ryskamp, Senior Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• Francis A. Schaeffer, pastor, philosopher and founder of the L'Abri community
• William Henry Sheppard, one of the earliest African-American Presbyterian missionaries, champion of indigenous rights in the Congo Free State
• R. C. Sproul, theologian
• Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America and later Governor of Georgia
• Jimmy Stewart, actor
• James Talent, former Senator from Missouri
• Gilbert Tennent, colonial religious leader and educator
• William Tennent, colonial religious leader and educator
• Norman Thomas ran for President as the Socialist Party candidate in 1928
• Robert M. Thompson (1849–1930), financier, patron of the United States Naval Academy
• James Henley Thornwell, Southern Presbyterian theologian
• Daniel D. Tompkins, U.S. Vice-President under Monroe
• Mark Twain, American author (but was a Congregationalist when he lived in Hartford in his later life)
• Dick Van Dyke, television and movie actor.
• Cornelius Van Til, philosopher, Westminster Theological Seminary professor
• Henry A. Wallace, U.S. Vice-President under F.D. Roosevelt
• Helen Walton, wife of late Sam Walton and heiress to the Wal-Mart fortune
• Jim Walton, heir of Wal-Mart Stores
• John Walton, heir of Wal-Mart Stores
• Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart Stores
• S. Robson Walton, Sam Walton's eldest son, Chairman & President of Wal-Mart Stores
• Brian Wansink -- Cornell University Professor and author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
• Mark Warner, former Democratic governor of Virginia
• Derek Webb, singer-songwriter
• Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Princeton Theological Seminary professor
• Robert Dick Wilson, Princeton Theological Seminary professor
• John Wayne, lived his life as a Presbyterian until converted on his deathbed by his family
• William A. Wheeler, U.S. Vice-President under Hayes
• Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey
• Woodrow Wilson, 28th President, and son of a Presbyterian Minister
• John Witherspoon, only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence