Howard Dean and 4 past presidents are members of Obama's church (Wikipedia)

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From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ#List_of_famous_UCC_members_or_attendees

List of famous UCC members or attendees
This section lists notable people known to have been raised in or current members of the United Church of Christ or its predecessor denominations.

Abigail Adams (1744–1818)
John Adams (1735–1826)
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)
Daniel Akaka — U.S. Senator from Hawaii (Democrat)
Max Baucus — U.S. Senator from Montana (Democrat)
Julian Bond — Chair NAACP (2004–present)
Walter Brueggemann — contemporary theologian, poet, and UCC minister, retired professor at Columbia Theological Seminary
William Sloane Coffin — Late Presbyterian/UCC minister and activist; 'pastor, prophet, poet'; former Chaplain at Yale University and Senior Pastor of Riverside Church, New York City
Common — Rapper, recording artist, member of Trinity UCC, Chicago
Jon Corzine — Governor of New Jersey (Democrat)
Howard Dean — Former Governor of Vermont (Democrat)
Mark Fernald — Former New Hampshire State senator pg 10
Donald Hall — United States US Poet Laureate <47>
Mills Godwin — Former Governor of Virginia
Bob Graham — Former U.S. Senator from Florida (Democrat)
Judd Gregg — U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (Republican)
Jim Jeffords — Former U.S. Senator from Vermont (Independent)
Dean Koontz - American writer and author. Raised UCC, now is Catholic. <48>
John Williamson Nevin — notable 19th-century theologian <49>
Barack Obama- U.S. Senator, 2008 presidential candidate, member of Trinity UCC Chicago
Robert Orr — Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations <50>
H. Richard Niebuhr — notable 20th-century theologian
Reinhold Niebuhr — notable 20th-century theologian
Sally Pederson — former Lieutenant Governor of Iowa (Democrat)
Leonard Pitts — Nationally syndicated Pulitzer prize–winning (2004) columnist
Marilynne Robinson — Pulitzer prize-winning (2005) author of the novel Gilead
Philip Schaff — notable 19th-century theologian <51>
George Smathers — Democratic Senator from Florida <52>
Max L. Stackhouse — public theologian and professor at Princeton Theological Seminary
William "Bill" McKinney — President of Pacific School of Religion, since 1996
Paul Tillich — notable 20th-century theologian
Andrew Young — Civil rights leader, ordained UCC pastor, and former member of Congress, UN ambassador, and mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ#List_of_famous_UCC_members_or_attendees

Unitarian Presidents:
Unitarian John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Millard Fillmore
William Howard Taft

http://www.adherents.com/adh_presidents.html

[ClassWarrior]

1. UCC and Unitarian are two different denominations.

NGU.

[Renew Deal]

2. This definitely could be a Wikipedia mistake

Do they fall under the same umbrella?

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3. I don't think so...

This is Obama, and Oprah's church...might want to take a look around the site...quite a different church...

http://www.tucc.org/home.htm

[ClassWarrior]

4. No. UCC is a fairly mainline Christian denomination, while Unitarian...

...has expanded from Christian roots to accepting a wide range of faith traditions.

NGU.