We’ve had preachers as presidents before. James Garfield was an ordained Presbyterian minister, for example.
Sorry, he was not a Presbyterian minister. He was a minister and elder in the Christian Church denomination.
“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?