Pentecostal POTUS

As the title says. Have a Pentecostal, preferably practicing, become President.

If possible, he or she should be from the Assemblies Of God, though other denominations will suffice, as long as they answer to the name "Pentecostal". Charismatic Catholics, low-church Episcopalians, or any other "pentecostal-ish" strains in other denominations are not allowed.

And as a side issue, I wonder to what extent things like speaking-in-tongues would create consternation among the more strait-laced variations of conservative Christianity, similar to the reservations about Mitt Romney's Mormonism that prevailed among certain fundamentalists.
 
Jimmy Carter in '76 is kind of this ATL-lite. Before his becoming the Democratic frontrunner, then nominee, then president, the term "born again Christian" was not widely known.
 
As the title says. Have a Pentecostal, preferably practicing, become President.

"Sharpton was licensed and ordained a Pentecostal minister by Bishop F. D. Washington at the age of nine[120] or ten.[121] After Bishop Washington's death in the late 1980s, Sharpton became a Baptist. He was re-baptized as a member of the Bethany Baptist Church in 1994 by the Reverend William Augustus Jones[38] and became a Baptist minister.[120][122]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sharpton

So just have Sharpton (1) remain a Pentecostal and (2) become president. Admittedly, the former is easier than the latter...
 
Jimmy Carter in '76 is kind of this ATL-lite. Before his becoming the Democratic frontrunner, then nominee, then president, the term "born again Christian" was not widely known.

Yeah, Carter would fit the "born-again" criterion, but not the "answers to the name Pentecostal" criterion.

Former Canadian PM Stephen Harper is a member of the Christian And Missionary Alliance, which wikipedia lists as part of the Holiness movement, but I don't think they identify or are identified as Pentecostal.

(Strange name, as it makes it sound like the Christians and the missionaries are two distinct groups.)
 
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