Herbert Hoover is the other Quaker President. As to Quaker I also retell the story told by Hugh Henry Brackenridge, a lawyer involved in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. The Hugh Henry Brackenridge made the comment that the only person convicted of Treason in the Whiskey Rebellion, was convicted do to bad lawyering. The man's attorney opted for an all Quaker Jury. Hugh Henry Brackenridge said Quakers were good to have on juries when it comes to regular crimes, Quakers would tend to want to minimize the sentence BUT AS TO TREASON OR ANY OTHER CRIME INVOLVING REBELLION OR CIVIL UNREST THEY WILL CONVICT QUICKER THEN ANYONE ELSE. Thus Hugh Henry Brackenridge kept Quakers off the juries his client faced, and they all walked, the one man who faced an all Quaker Jury was the only man convicted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Henry_Brackenridge
Quakers tend to opt for ORDER, the Quakers and the Anglicans (Anglicans) were the two "Groups" at the time of the American Revolution that were the most likely to be pro-British for both (at that time period, we are discussing the late 1700s) prefer stability to radical change. Presbyterians and Congregationalists were the most supportive of the Revolution (Through in the Whiskey Rebellion, tended to oppose the Revolt, which came out of the Militia as oppose to the Churches, most secular social groups had not yet developed by the 1790s, thus any movement came out of the Churches prior to the 1790s (The Churches were the one thing most people belonged to, so often people divided on Religious grounds, even on non-religious issues for they support group were the other members of their Church). The Whiskey Rebellion is the first time a movement came out of something other then the Churches (Through some of the earlier Indian conflicts came out of a combination of Churches and Militia for in all Colonial Governments, the Militia formation was tied in with what ever church was in the area).
Just a comment on Quakers of the 1790s, that they prefer ORDER to CIVIL UNREST and to a degree that survives to this day.
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