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The '''chaplain''' is a clergyman elected by the [[United States Senate|Senate]] to open its daily sessions with a prayer. The chaplain is also available as an adviser and counselor to Senators, Senators' families, and congressional employees.<ref>[https://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/chaplain.htm] US Senate Reference</ref>
 
The '''chaplain''' is a clergyman elected by the [[United States Senate|Senate]] to open its daily sessions with a prayer. The chaplain is also available as an adviser and counselor to Senators, Senators' families, and congressional employees.<ref>[https://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/chaplain.htm] US Senate Reference</ref>
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The inclusion of a prayer before the opening of each session of both the House and the Senate, traces its origins back to the days of the Continental Congress
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The chaplain is a clergyman elected by the Senate to open its daily sessions with a prayer. The chaplain is also available as an adviser and counselor to Senators, Senators' families, and congressional employees.[1]

The inclusion of a prayer before the opening of each session of both the House and the Senate, traces its origins back to the days of the Continental Congress


References

  1. ↑ [1] US Senate Reference

List of Senate chaplains

The website for the U.S. Senate includes the following list of past and present Senate Chaplains:[1]

Number Chaplain Photo Religion Denomination Appointed
1. Samuel Provoost Samuel Provoost-Bishop Episcopal Church USA.jpg Christian Episcopal April 25, 1789
2. William White 50px Christian Episcopal December 9, 1790
3. Thomas John Claggett 50px Christian Episcopal November 27, 1800
4. Edward Gantt Christian Episcopal December 9, 1801
5. A. T. McCormick Christian Episcopal November 7, 1804
6. Edward Gantt Christian Episcopal December 4, 1805
7. John Johnson Sayrs Christian Episcopal December 3, 1806
8. A. T. McCormick Christian Episcopal November 10, 1807
9. Robert Elliott Christian Presbyterian November 10, 1808
10. James Jones Wilmer Christian Episcopal May 24, 1809
11. Obadiah Bruen Brown 50px Christian Baptist December 5, 1809
12. Walter Dulaney Addison 50px Christian Episcopal December 12, 1810
13. John Brackenridge, D.D. Christian Presbyterian November 13, 1811
14. Jesse Lee 50px Christian Methodist September 27, 1814
15. John Glendy Christian Presbyterian December 8, 1815
16. Sereno Edwards Dwight Christian Congregationalist December 16, 1816
17. William Dickinson Hawley Christian Episcopal December 9, 1817
18. John Clark Christian Presbyterian November 19, 1818
19. Reuben Post Christian Presbyterian December 9, 1819
20. William Ryland Christian Methodist November 17, 1820
21. Charles Pettit McIlvaine 50px Christian Episcopal December 9, 1822
22. William Staughton 50px Christian Baptist December 10, 1823
23. Charles Pettit McIlvaine 50px Christian Episcopal December 14, 1824
24. William Staughton 50px Christian Baptist December 12, 1825
25. William Ryland Christian Methodist December 8, 1826
26. Henry Van Dyke Johns Christian Episcopal December 14, 1829
27. John Price Durbin 50px Christian Methodist December 19, 1831
28. Charles Constantine Pise 50px Christian Roman Catholic December 11, 1832
29. Frederick Winslow Hatch Christian Episcopal December 10, 1833
30. Edward Young Higbee Christian Episcopal December 23, 1835
31. John Reinhard Goodman Christian Episcopal December 28, 1836
32. Henry Slicer 50px Christian Methodist September 11, 1837
33. George Grimston Cookman Christian Methodist December 31, 1839
34. Septimus Tustin Christian Presbyterian June 12, 1841
35. Henry Slicer 50px Christian Methodist December 16, 1846
36. Clement Moore Butler Christian Episcopal January 9, 1850
37. Henry Slicer 50px Christian Methodist December 7, 1853
38. Henry Clay Dean Christian Methodist December 4, 1855
39. Stephen P. Hill Christian Baptist December 8, 1856
40. Phineas Densmore Gurley 50px Christian Presbyterian December 15, 1859
41. Byron Sunderland 50px Christian Presbyterian July 10, 1861
42. Thomas Bowman 50px Christian Methodist May 11, 1864
43. Edgar Harkness Gray 50px Christian Baptist March 9, 1865
44. John Philip Newman 50px Christian Methodist March 8, 1869
45. Byron Sunderland 50px Christian Presbyterian December 8, 1873
46. Joseph J. Bullock Christian Presbyterian March 24, 1879
47. Elias DeWitt Huntley 50px Christian Methodist December 18, 1883
48. John George Butler 50px Christian Lutheran March 15, 1886
49. William Henry Milburn 50px Christian Methodist April 6, 1893
50. F.J. Prettyman 50px Christian Methodist November 23, 1903
51. Edward Everett Hale 50px Christian Unitarian December 14, 1903
52. Ulysses Grant Baker Pierce Christian Unitarian June 18, 1909
53. F.J. Prettyman 50px Christian Methodist March 13, 1913
54. Joseph Johnston Muir Christian Baptist January 21, 1921
55. ZeBarney Thorne Phillips 50px Christian Episcopal December 5, 1927
56. Frederick Brown Harris 50px Christian Methodist October 10, 1942
57. Peter Marshall 50px Christian Presbyterian January 4, 1947
58. Frederick Brown Harris 50px Christian Methodist February 3, 1949
59. Edward L.R. Elson 50px Christian Presbyterian January 9, 1969
60. Richard C. Halverson 50px Christian Presbyterian February 2, 1981
61. Lloyd John Ogilvie 50px Christian Presbyterian March 11, 1995
62. Barry C. Black 50px Christian Seventh-day Adventist July 7, 2003

Denomination Totals:

Episcopalian = 19 Methodist = 17 Presbyterian = 14 Baptist = 6 Unitarian = 2 Congregationalist = 1 Lutheran = 1 Roman Catholic = 1 Seventh-day Adventist = 1

Total: 62

  1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named first
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