The first iteration of the Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist minister, Francis Bellamy, in 1892. Congress adopted the pledge in 1942 during World War II and amended it in 1954 to ...
In 1892, Francis Bellamy, a minister from upstate New York, reportedly wrote the pledge as an expression of fealty to the U.S. It read: "I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which ...