Francis Bellamy was born on May 18, 1855 in New York. Best remembered as the author of the United States' Pledge of Allegiance, Bellamy also worked as a minister and allied himself with the nineteenth-century Christian socialist movement.
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About

Best remembered as the author of the United States' Pledge of Allegiance, Bellamy also worked as a minister and allied himself with the nineteenth-century Christian socialist movement.

Before Fame

He earned a theology degree from New York's University of Rochester.

Trivia

He launched an unsuccessful New York gubernatorial campaign.

Family Life

He grew up in Rome, New York as the son of a Baptist minister. In the early 1880s, he married his first wife, Harriet Benton; the union produced sons named David and John (following Benton's death, Bellamy wed Marie Morin).