Rev. George M. Docherty Who Helped Get “Under God” in Pledge Dies

Pastor who helped get “under God” in Pledge dies

AP News – ALEXANDRIA, Pa. – A church official says the clergyman credited with helping to push Congress to insert the phrase “under God” into the Pledge of Allegiance has died in Alexandria, Pa. The Rev. George M. Docherty was 97.

Nancy Taylor, historian for the Huntingdon Presbyterian Church, says Docherty died on Thanksgiving at his home in Alexandria, with his wife, Sue, by his side.

Docherty delivered a sermon saying the pledge should acknowledge God in 1952 at Washington’s New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, just blocks from the White House.

On Feb. 7, 1954, he delivered it again after learning that President Dwight Eisenhower would be at the church.

Congress inserted the words a few months later.

Ken Maddox of OneAngryMan.com

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