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The Chaplain of the United States Senate opens each session of the United States Senate with a prayer. The Chaplain is appointed by majority vote of the members of the Senate.
The current Chaplain is Barry C. Black.
[edit] List of Senate chaplains
| Chaplain |
Denomination |
Appointed |
| Samuel Provoost |
Episcopalian |
April 25, 1789 |
| William White |
Episcopalian |
December 9, 1790 |
| Thomas John Claggett |
Episcopalian |
November 27, 1800 |
| Edward Gantt |
Episcopalian |
December 9, 1801 |
| Alexander Thomas McCormick |
Episcopalian |
November 7, 1804 |
| Edward Gantt |
Episcopalian |
December 4, 1805 |
| John Johnson Sayrs |
Episcopalian |
December 3, 1806 |
| A.T. McCormick |
Episcopalian |
November 10, 1807 |
| Robert Elliott |
Presbyterian |
November 10, 1808 |
| James Jones Wilmer |
Episcopalian |
May 24, 1809 |
| Obadiah Bruen Brown |
Baptist |
December 5, 1809 |
| Walter Dulaney Addison |
Episcopalian |
December 12, 1810 |
| John Brackenridge |
Presbyterian |
November 13, 1811 |
| Jesse Lee |
Methodist |
September 27, 1814 |
| John Glendie |
Presbyterian |
December 8, 1815 |
| Sereno Edward Dwight |
Congregationalist |
December 16, 1816 |
| William Dickinson Hawley |
Episcopalian |
December 9, 1817 |
| John Clark |
Presbyterian |
November 19, 1818 |
| Reuben Post |
Presbyterian |
December 9, 1819 |
| William Ryland |
Methodist |
November 17, 1820 |
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine |
Episcopalian |
December 9, 1822 |
| William Staughton |
Baptist |
December 10, 1823 |
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine |
Episcopalian |
December 14, 1824 |
| William Staughton |
Baptist |
December 12, 1825 |
| William Ryland |
Methodist |
December 8, 1826 |
| Henry Van Dyke Johns |
Episcopalian |
December 14, 1829 |
| John Price Durbin |
Methodist |
December 19, 1831 |
| Charles Constantine Pise |
Roman Catholic |
December 11, 1832 |
| Frederick Winslow Hatch |
Episcopalian |
December 10, 1833 |
| Edward Young Higbee |
Episcopalian |
December 23, 1835 |
| John Reinhard Goodman |
Episcopalian |
December 28, 1836 |
| Henry Slicer |
Methodist |
September 11, 1837 |
| George Grimston Cookman |
Methodist |
December 31, 1839 |
| Septimus Tustin |
Presbyterian |
June 12, 1841 |
| Henry Slicer |
Methodist |
December 16, 1846 |
| Clement Moore Butler |
Episcopalian |
January 9, 1850 |
| Henry Slicer |
Methodist |
December 7, 1853 |
| Henry Clay Dean |
Methodist |
December 4, 1855 |
| Stephen P. Hill |
Baptist |
December 8, 1856 |
| Phineas Densmore Gurley |
Presbyterian |
December 15, 1859 |
| Byron Sunderland |
Presbyterian |
July 10, 1861 |
| Thomas Bowman |
Methodist |
May 11, 1864 |
| Edgar Harkness Gray |
Baptist |
March 9, 1865 |
| John Philip Newman |
Methodist |
March 8, 1869 |
| Byron Sunderland |
Presbyterian |
December 8, 1873 |
| Joseph J. Bullock |
Presbyterian |
March 24, 1879 |
| Elia DeWitt Huntley |
Methodist |
December 18, 1883 |
| John George Butler |
Lutheran |
March 15, 1886 |
| William Henry Milburn |
Methodist |
April 6, 1893 |
| F.J. Prettyman |
Methodist |
November 23, 1903 |
| Edward Everett Hale |
Unitarian |
December 14, 1903 |
| Ulysses Grant Baker Pierce |
Unitarian |
June 18, 1909 |
| F.J. Prettyman |
Methodist |
March 13, 1913 |
| Joseph Johnston Muir |
Baptist |
January 21, 1921 |
| ZeBarney Thorne Phillips |
Episcopalian |
December 5, 1927 |
| Frederick Brown Harris |
Methodist |
October 10, 1942 |
| Peter Marshall |
Presbyterian |
January 4, 1947 |
| Frederick Brown Harris |
Methodist |
February 3, 1949 |
| Edward L.R. Elson |
Presbyterian |
January 9, 1969 |
| Richard C. Halverson |
Presbyterian |
February 2, 1981 |
| Lloyd John Ogilvie |
Presbyterian |
March 11, 1995 |
| Barry C. Black |
Seventh-day Adventist |
July 7, 2003 |
[edit] Demographics
| Episcopalian |
19 |
| Methodist |
17 |
| Presbyterian |
13 |
| Baptist |
6 |
| Unitarian |
3 |
| Congregationalist |
1 |
| Lutheran |
1 |
| Roman Catholic |
1 |
| Seventh-day Adventist |
1 |
| Total Christian |
62 |
| Other religions |
0 |
| Total |
62 |
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