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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 in 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 [42]
  
• 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. [43]
  
• John Williamson Nevin — notable 19th-century theologian [44]
  
• Barack Obama — U.S. Senator, 2008 presidential candidate
  
• Robert Orr — Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations [45]
  
• 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 [46]
  
• George Smathers — Democratic Senator from Florida [47]
  
• 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

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