U.S. Senator from Maine (1979–1997) Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) — American suffragist, activist, writer Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) – American historian and biographer of Theodore Parker Kent Conrad (born 1948) – U.S. Senator from North Dakota (1992–2013) Maria Cook (1779–1835) – first woman to be recognized as a Universalist preacher. William David Coolidge (1873–1975) – inventor, physician, research director Peter Cooper (1791-1883) - industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and politician; founder of The Cooper Union. Norman Cousins (1915–1990) – editor and writer, Unitarian friend * E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) – poet and painter William Cushing (1732–1810) – one of the original US Supreme Court Justices, appointed by Geo. Washington and longest serving of the original justices (1789–1810). D Cyrus Dallin (1861–1944) – American sculptor Charles Darwin (1809–1882) – English naturalist and biologist Ferenc Dávid (born as Franz David Hertel, often rendered as Francis David or Francis Davidis) (1510–1579) – Transylvanian priest, minister and bishop, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania, first to use the word "Unitarian" to describe his faith George de Benneville (1703–1793) – Universalist Morris Dees (born 1936) – attorney, cofounder, chief legal counsel of Southern Poverty Law Center Karl W. Deutsch (1912–1992) – international political scientist John Dewey (1859–1952) – author of A Common Faith, Unitarian friend Charles Dickens (1812–1870) – English novelist. Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) – prison reformer in New England. John H. Dietrich (1878–1957) – Unitarian minister James Drummond Dole (1877–1958) – entrepreneur Emily Taft Douglas (1899–1994) – U.S. Representative, Illinois Paul Douglas (1892–1976) – U.S. Senator, also a Quaker Madelyn Dunham (1922–2008) – grandmother of U.S. President Barack Obama Stanley Armour Dunham (1918–1992) – grandfather of Barack Obama Stanley Ann Dunham (1942–1995) – mother of Barack Obama E Richard Eddy (1828–1906) – minister and author of 1886 book Universalism in America. James Chuter Ede (1882-1965) - British teacher, trade unionist and politician, Home Secretary (1945-1951) and President of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches Charles William Eliot (1834–1926) – landscape architect Samuel Atkins Eliot (1862–1950) – first president of the Unitarians Thomas H. Eliot (1907–1991) – legislator and educator Thomas Lamb Eliot (1841–1936) – minister, founder of First Unitarian Church in Portland, Oregon, and Reed College Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) – Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist William Emerson (1873 – 1957) – MIT dean of architecture Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935) – historian and educator Marc Estrin (born 1939) – American novelist and political activist