{"id":4929,"date":"2023-02-28T21:27:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T21:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/?page_id=4929"},"modified":"2023-03-20T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T17:31:26","slug":"famous-uus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous UUs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Five United States Presidents were Unitarians:\u00a0John Adams,\u00a0Thomas Jefferson,\u00a0John Quincy Adams,\u00a0Millard Fillmore\u00a0and\u00a0William Taft. While he did not specifically identify with any organized religion,\u00a0Abraham Lincoln\u00a0had Universalist leanings. A sample of famous Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists are listed below.\u00a0For more check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Unitarians,_Universalists,_and_Unitarian_Universalists\">Wikipedia<\/a> listing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Horatio<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Alger<\/strong>&nbsp;(1832-1899), writer of rags-to-riches books for boys.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lousia<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>May<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Alcott<\/strong>&nbsp;(1832-1888), author of&nbsp;<em>Little Women<\/em>&nbsp;and other books.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Susan B. Anthony<\/strong>\u00a0(1820-1906), organizer of the women\u2019s suffrage movement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>P.T. Barnum<\/strong>\u00a0(1810-1891), well-known showman, owner of the Barnum and Bailey Circus, and a founder of Tufts University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Clara Barton&nbsp;<\/strong>(1821-1912), founder of the American Red Cross.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Alexander Graham Bell<\/strong>&nbsp;(1847-1922), inventor of the telephone; founder of Bell Telephone Company.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ray Bradbury\u00a0<\/strong>(1920-2012), science fiction writer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>William Cullen Bryant<\/strong>&nbsp;(1794-1878), author and newspaper editor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Luther Burbank&nbsp;<\/strong>(1849-1926), American Botanist of the early 20th century.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Robert Burns<\/strong>&nbsp;(1759-1796), Scottish poet and songwriter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>William Ellery Channing<\/strong>&nbsp;(1780-1842), abolitionist, founder of Unitarianism in America.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Judy Chu <\/strong>(1953- ), U.S. Representative from California&#8217;s 28th District<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>William Cohen&nbsp;<\/strong>(1940- ), U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1979-1997.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nathaniel Currier&nbsp;<\/strong>(1813-1888), lithographer, partner of James Merritt Ives.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>e.e.cummings<\/strong>&nbsp;(1894-1962), 20th century American Poet, noted for his unorthodox style and technique.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Charles Darwin<\/strong>&nbsp;(1809-1882), scientist and evolutionist, author of<em>&nbsp;Origin of the Species<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Charles Dickens<\/strong>&nbsp;(1812-1870), English novelist.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dorothea Dix<\/strong>&nbsp;(1802-1887), crusader for the reform of institutions for the mentally ill.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/strong>\u00a0(1803-1882), Unitarian minister, philosopher, essayist.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fannie Farmer\u00a0<\/strong>(1857-1915), cooking expert.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Benjamin Franklin<\/strong>&nbsp;(1706-1790), scientist, writer, statesman, printer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Margaret Fuller<\/strong>&nbsp;(1810-1850), a feminist before her time. Leading figure in the Transcendentalist movement and an editor of&nbsp;<em>The Dial<\/em>, along with Ralph Waldo Emerson.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>William Lloyd Garrison<\/strong>&nbsp;(1805-1879), abolitionist, editor of&nbsp;<em>The Liberator<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Horace Greeley<\/strong>&nbsp;(1811-1872), journalist, politician, editor and owner of the&nbsp;<em>New York Tribune<\/em>, champion of labor unions and cooperatives.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Edward Everett Hale<\/strong>&nbsp;1822-1909), Unitarian minister and author of&nbsp;<em>The Man Without a Country<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nathaniel Hawthorne\u00a0<\/strong>(1804-1864), 19th century American novelist, author of\u00a0<em>The Scarlet Letter<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>John Haynes Holmes<\/strong>&nbsp;(1879-1964), co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.<\/strong>&nbsp;(1841-1935), lawyer and member of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1902-32.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Julia Ward Howe<\/strong>&nbsp;(1819-1910), composer of&nbsp;<em>Battle Hymn of the Republic<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/strong>\u00a0(1807-1882), poet, author of\u00a0<em>Paul Revere\u2019s Ride<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>James Russell Lowell<\/strong>&nbsp;(1819-1891), noted 19th century poet, anti-slavery leader, and Unitarian minister.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>John Marshall<\/strong>&nbsp;(1755-1835), Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Herman Melville<\/strong>&nbsp;(1819-1891), writer, author of&nbsp;<em>Moby Dick<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Samuel Morse<\/strong>&nbsp;(1791-1872), inventor of the telegraph and Morse Code.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Florence Nightingale<\/strong>&nbsp;(1820-1910), British nurse and hospital reformer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Thomas Paine<\/strong>&nbsp;(1737-1809), editor and publisher of&nbsp;<em>Common Sense<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Theodore Parker<\/strong>&nbsp;(1810-1860), a renegade Unitarian minister of the mid-19th century and a leading figure of the Abolitionist movement in the Boston area.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Linus Pauling<\/strong>&nbsp;(1901-1994), chemist, won the Nobel Peace Prize, 1962.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>William Perry&nbsp;<\/strong>(1927 \u2013 ), former Secretary of Defense<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Beatrix Potter<\/strong>&nbsp;(1866-1943), author of&nbsp;<em>Peter Rabbit<\/em>&nbsp;and other children\u2019s stories.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Joseph Priestly<\/strong>&nbsp;(1733-1804), discoverer of oxygen.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Christopher Reeve<\/strong>&nbsp;(1952-2004), actor, best known for his portrayal of&nbsp;<em>Superman<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Paul Revere<\/strong>&nbsp;(1735-1818), silversmith and patriot.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Benjamin Rush<\/strong>&nbsp;(1745-1813), signer of the Declaration of Independence; physician, considered to be the \u201cFather of American Psychiatry.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pete Seeger&nbsp;<\/strong>(1919-2014), songwriter, singer, and social activist.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ted Sorenson&nbsp;<\/strong>(1928-2010), speech writer and aide to John F. Kennedy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Adlai Stevenson\u00a0<\/strong>(1900-1965), Governor of Illinois, candidate for President, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Henry David Thoreau<\/strong>&nbsp;(1817-1862), essayist and naturalist, author of&nbsp;<em>Walden Pond<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kurt Vonnegut<\/strong>&nbsp;(1922-2007), writer, author of&nbsp;<em>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five United States Presidents were Unitarians:\u00a0John Adams,\u00a0Thomas Jefferson,\u00a0John Quincy Adams,\u00a0Millard Fillmore\u00a0and\u00a0William Taft. While he did not specifically identify with any organized religion,\u00a0Abraham Lincoln\u00a0had Universalist leanings. A sample of famous Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists are listed below.\u00a0For more check out the Wikipedia listing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1705,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4929","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Famous UUs - UU Fellowship of Franklin, NC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Famous UUs - UU Fellowship of Franklin, NC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Five United States Presidents were Unitarians:\u00a0John Adams,\u00a0Thomas Jefferson,\u00a0John Quincy Adams,\u00a0Millard Fillmore\u00a0and\u00a0William Taft. While he did not specifically identify with any organized religion,\u00a0Abraham Lincoln\u00a0had Universalist leanings. A sample of famous Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists are listed below.\u00a0For more check out the Wikipedia listing.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UU Fellowship of Franklin, NC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-20T17:31:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/\",\"name\":\"Famous UUs - UU Fellowship of Franklin, NC\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-28T21:27:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-20T17:31:26+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"About Us\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Famous UUs\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/\",\"name\":\"UU Fellowship of Franklin, NC\",\"description\":\"&quot;A Light for Liberal Religion in the Mountains&quot;\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Famous UUs - UU Fellowship of Franklin, NC","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Famous UUs - UU Fellowship of Franklin, NC","og_description":"Five United States Presidents were Unitarians:\u00a0John Adams,\u00a0Thomas Jefferson,\u00a0John Quincy Adams,\u00a0Millard Fillmore\u00a0and\u00a0William Taft. While he did not specifically identify with any organized religion,\u00a0Abraham Lincoln\u00a0had Universalist leanings. A sample of famous Unitarians, Universalists and Unitarian Universalists are listed below.\u00a0For more check out the Wikipedia listing.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/","og_site_name":"UU Fellowship of Franklin, NC","article_modified_time":"2023-03-20T17:31:26+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/","url":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/","name":"Famous UUs - UU Fellowship of Franklin, NC","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-02-28T21:27:14+00:00","dateModified":"2023-03-20T17:31:26+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/famous-uus\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"About Us","item":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/about-us\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Famous UUs"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/","name":"UU Fellowship of Franklin, NC","description":"&quot;A Light for Liberal Religion in the Mountains&quot;","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5345,"href":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4929\/revisions\/5345"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}