Who added under god in the pledge of allegiance?
Louis Albert Bowman, an attorney from Illinois, was the first to suggest the addition of "under God" to the pledge. The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution gave him an Award of Merit as the originator of this idea. He spent his adult life in the Chicago area and was chaplain of the Illinois Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. At a meeting on February 12, 1948, he led the society in reciting the pledge with the two words "under God" added. He said that the words came from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Although not all manuscript versions of the Gettysburg Address contain the words "under God", all the reporters' transcripts of the speech as delivered do, as perhaps Lincoln may have deviated from his prepared text and inserted the phrase when he said "that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom." Bowman repeated his revised version of the Pledge at other meetings.
Who first suggested adding under god in the pledge of allegiance?
Louis Albert Bowman
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At the suggestion of a correspondent, Representative Louis C. Rabaut (D-Mich.), of Michigan sponsored a resolution to add the words "under God" to the Pledge in 1953.
Who sponsored a resolution to add under god in the pledge of allegiance in 1953?
Louis Charles Rabaut Louis C. Rabaut Representative Louis C. Rabaut
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The phrase "under God" was incorporated into the Pledge of Allegiance on June 14, 1954, by a Joint Resolution of Congress amending § 4 of the Flag Code enacted in 1942.
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Congress added "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, while Louis Albert Bowman, an attorney from Illinois, first suggested adding "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, and Representative Louis C. Rabaut of Michigan sponsored a resolution to do so in 1953. The phrase "under God" was incorporated into the Pledge of Allegiance on June 14, 1954, by a Joint Resolution of Congress.