“We’ve had preachers as presidents before. James Garfield was an ordained Presbyterian minister, for example.”
True. And when the news was released that he had won the election, his Mother wept and lamented, “To think that he would stoop from being a Minister of the Gospel to being President.”
I wonder if it would be considered as big a stoop today?
True. And when the news was released that he had won the election, his Mother wept and lamented, “To think that he would stoop from being a Minister of the Gospel to being President.”
According to the Garfield biography on Wikipedia, after graduating from Williams College, "Garfield ruled out becoming a preacher". The rest of the biography doesn't seem to leave any time for his ordination.