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MEMORABLE JAMES GARFIELD QUOTE:

“I resign the highest office in the land to become President of the United States.”

(He went to his reward six months later courtesy of a religious zealot).

See here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=KLglkgCEEB4C&pg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=false

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ONE OTHER NOTABLE RELIGIOUS PRESIDENT:

John Quincy Adams worshiped at three different churches (Unitarian, Presbyterian, and Episcopal) and would attend service even in heavy snow. He was also vice president of the American Bible Society and wrote religious poetry.

THE LEAST RELIGIOUS:

* James Monroe. Attended church infrequently

* Ulysses Grant seems to have refused to ever profess his faith, even when a bishop of his wife’s Methodist denomination pressed him on his deathbed.

[SharpRightTurn]

I believe the “highest office” he was referring to as leaving was an elder in his church.

I don’t doubt Carter’s sincerity as a Christian, but I don’t think he had anything on Garfield.

[Durus]

He was assassinated by a person, who claimed that God spoke to him, that a speech he gave got Garfield elected, that he was close friends with Garfield (though they had never met) and that Garfield had reneged in appointing him to some Federal post. He was more of a delusional psychotic than a religious zealot.

[JediJones]

(He went to his reward six months later courtesy of a religious zealot).

Sounds more like his assassin was a delusional psychotic. He may have been religious or a drinker of milk, but the qualities that led him to kill the president appear to be neither of those.

an assassin, Charles J. Guiteau, an apparently delusional if not wholly psychotic Federal office-seeker who had believed himself to be on close terms with Garfield even though he and Garfield had never spoken to each other. Guiteau also believed himself assured of a Federal appointment as the United States consul in Paris – a position for which he had no qualifications. Guiteau believed as well that a short speech he had partially presented before a small group of people during the presidential election campaign was in fact the cause of Garfield's election to the presidency and which, therefore, justified his appointment. ...Guiteau also believed he would be acquitted of any crime and be elected President after the trial.[