Chaplain_of_the_United_States_Senate

Chaplain of the United States Senate

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.

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