I'll Just Leave This Here

[Gravekeeper]

It should be noted that the huge influence of religion in politics in the US is a relatively recent thing and you can largely thank the 50s for it. >.>

The Founding Fathers really weren't that big on it at all.

[SkullKing]

Could that be because before that there were fewer openly diverging faiths in the U.S., and thus pople assumed they were on the same -ish faith.

And because they had the "godless" Sovietic union as a commom enemy.

[Kheldarson]

It could be. Then again, maybe not. Consider that during that time period we had the first non-Protestant Christian elected...but after showing that he wasn't really a true papist. Being anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic was definitely in vogue during that time and before then. So...there's an argument in your statement, but would need a bit more support.

[SkullKing]

So another reason for not asking about religion would be because Catholics and Jews wouldn´t go that far?, and therefore religion in presidential candidates was more uniform?

[Kheldarson]

Possibly. You'd have to look at lists of candidates throughout time for a position and see if anybody besides a Protestant ran...if their religion is mentioned at all.

[KabeRinnaul]

Well, Jefferson and Lincoln were deists who didn't believe in the divinity of Christ. And Kennedy was Catholic, as was John Floyd, a third-party candidate in 1832. I've been looking for others who ran but weren't elected.

But here are the rest of the presidents.