Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) - Prominent Members

Prominent Members

  • Jesse Moren Bader, evangelist
  • Steve Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, December 2007 - current
  • Edgar Cayce, psychic and healer
  • Fred Craddock, professor and preacher
  • Russell Errett, former Congressman (R) from Pennsylvania's 22nd Congressional District.
  • J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator from Arkansas
  • James Garfield, 20th President of the United States. He was an ordained minister having received his ordination, while serving as president of Hiram College. During the period he preached almost every Sunday in congregations around the Western Reserve
  • David Lloyd George, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who delivered open air sermons on temperance
  • Murry Hammond and Grey DeLisle, singers
  • W.H. "Boss" Hoover, founder of The Hoover Company, also a founding member and ordained minister of Community Christian Church in North Canton, Ohio
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States, who taught Sunday School as a young man and regularly attended National City Christian Church on Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C. during his time as President (his wife Lady Bird Johnson was a devoted Episcopalian. The President's grandfather Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr. was raised as a Baptist. Subsequently, in his early manhood, he became a member of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In his later years he became a Christadelphian. According to Lady Bird Johnson, President Johnson's father also joined the Christadelphian Church toward the end of his life.)
  • James Warren "Jim" Jones, founder of the Peoples Temple of Jonestown, Guyana, best known for the 1978 death of over 900 members in a ritualized mass suicide. He had been disaffiliated with the church before founding the People's Temple.
  • Ken Lucas, former Congressman (D) candidate for Kentucky's 4th Congressional District.
  • Frances McDormand, Oscar-winning actress
  • James Clark McReynolds, United States Supreme Court Justice (1914–1941)
  • John Muir, Scottish founder of the environmental movement. Raised in the church, but later left it.
  • Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (baptized into the Disciples as a youth, and graduated from the Disciples' Eureka College, but a member of Bel Air Presbyterian Church in his later years. He was married to Nancy at The Little Brown Church, Studio City, CA, a Disciples Church.
  • Gene Robinson, raised in a Disciples church, but now a bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America
  • Colonel Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
  • Tim Warner, former Independent Fundamental Bible Church leader turned Christian Church leader, founder of Pristine Faith Restoration Society and a strong voice for historic premillennialism.
  • Tom Selleck, actor
  • John Ben Shepperd, Texas attorney general (1953–1957)
  • Ike Skelton, congressman from Missouri's 4th Congressional District
  • John Stamos, actor
  • John Tanner, congressman from Tennessee's 8th Congressional District
  • William Thomas, Jr., actor
  • Lew Wallace, author and Civil War general; his membership in the Disciples is somewhat uncertain, but his stepmother, Zerelda G. Wallace, was a founding member of Central Christian in Indianapolis and active in the WCTU, with her portrait still in the Indiana Statehouse. Wallace himself, though, claimed no denominational filliation
  • John Wooden, legendary UCLA basketball coach, raised in a Disciple Church in Martinsville, Indiana.
  • Bruce Zager, Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

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