Word: cockran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...achieved "such discinction in his field of special endeavor as to reflect glory upon the Catholic faith." Actress Margaret Anglin received the medal for 1927; Edward N. Hurley for 1926. Other Laetare medallists: Patrick V. Hickey, founder of Catholic Review (1888); Theatrical Manager Augustin Daly (1894); Orator William Bourke Cockran (1901); Attorney-General Charles J. Bonaparte (1903); Diplomat Maurice Francis Egan (1910); Essayist Agnes Repplier (1911); Chief Justice Edward Douglas White (1914); Admiral William Shepherd Benson...
...Bourke Cockran, Tammany Congressman, made his last speech in the House of Representatives on his birthday, Feb. 28, and died early the next morning...
...wandering among their reminiscences, recalled that rainy night, 33 years ago, in the old convention building on the Chicago lakefront, when Cockran, on a stage over which rain trickled from the leaky roof, faced a howling gallery full of impatient supporters of Grover Cleveland for the Democratic presidential nomination-and nominated the hated David B. Hill...
Died: W. Bourke Cockran, 69, member of the House of Representatives from New York, in Washington...