, there are 25 Catholics in the United States Senate, and 141 (out of 435) Catholics in the United States House of Representatives, including the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. In 2008, Joe Biden became the first Catholic to be elected Vice President of the United States. His successor Mike Pence was raised Catholic but converted to Protestantism later in life. In 2020, Biden went on to be elected the second Roman Catholic president of the United States.