American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Warren Earl Burger (September 17, 1907-June 25, 1995) was Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1969-86. He had served on the faculty of William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, 1931-48; assistant U.S. Attorney General, 1953-56; and judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, 1956-69. He delivered the court's opinion in the case of Marsh v. Chambers, 675 F. 2d 228, 233 (8th Cir. 1982); review allowed, 463 U.S. 783 (1982), regarding chaplains opening Legislative sessions with prayer: <The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as...

John Wayne (May 26, 1907-June 11, 1979) born Marion Michael Morrison, was an Oscar winning actor. Of Presbyterian Scots-Irish descent, his grandfather, Marion Mitchell Morrison, fought in the Civil War. John Wayne played football for U.S.C. and worked behind-the-scenes at Fox Studios, before being discovered by director John Ford, who cast him in epic western and war films. A January 2011 Harris Poll ranked John Wayne third among America's favorite film stars. On May 26, 1979, Jimmy Carter said: <I have today approved...a specially struck gold medal to John Wayne. For nearly half a century, the Duke has symbolized the...

Virginia (1906) religious affiliation, as reported in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XV, Copyright 1912 by Robert Appleton Company, stated as of 1906, a census listed Church membership as 793,546, consisting of: <Baptists-415,987 members Methodists-200,771 members Presbyterians-39,628 members  Catholics-28,700 members Protestant Episcopal-28,487 members Disciples-26,248 members Lutherans-15,010 members Dunkers, Christians, and other denominations had small percentages, such as Quakers, who were the first to call for an end to slavery.> 1906VA001 http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15451a.htm The 1906 religious affilition of Virginia was reported in The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition:, published 1911: <Out of the total of 793,546 members of religious denominations in 1906, more than half,...

Vermont (1906) religious affiliation, as reported in The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, stated of Vermont: <Of 147,223 communicants of all Churches in 1906, the largest number, 82,272, were Roman Catholics; 22,109 were Congregationalists; 17,471 Methodist Episcopalians; 8,450 Baptists; 1,501 Free Baptists; and 5,278 Protestant Episcopalians.> 1906VT001 http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Vermont#Population The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XV, Copyright 1912 by Robert Appleton Company, stated as of 1906, a census listed Vermont as: <Catholic-77,389 members divided between Irish and Canadians, with two Polish congregations and a few others, in 97 Churches and 25 missions Congregationalists-20,271 with 186 ministers in 197 Churches Methodists-16,067 members with 161 ministers in...

South Carolina (1906) religious affiliation, as recorded in The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, published in 1911, stated: <In 1906 there were in the state 655,933 members of different religious denominations, of whom the Baptist bodies were the strongest with 341,456 communicants; the Methodist bodies had 249,169 members; 35,533 were Presbyterians; 12,652 were Lutherans; 10,317 were Roman Catholics; and 8557 were Protestant Episcopalians.> 1906SC001 The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XV, Copyright 1912 by Robert Appleton Company, stated as of 1908, a census listed South Carolina as: <Baptist-118,217 in 1,003 Churches & 410 ministers Methodist Episcopal-85,441 in 798 Churches & 357 ministers Presbyterian-23,442 in...