Patrick Emmet "Pat" Gorman (November 27, 1892 – 1980) was an American lawyer and trade unionist affiliated with the

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. Gorman served as the union's highest-ranking official (secretary-treasurer) from 1942 to 1976. He was extremely committed to economic and social justice and was considered to be the "social conscience" of the labor movement. His papers are held at the

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Gorman was born the youngest of 10 sons in a family of 11 children in

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. His father, Maurice Gorman born in 1840, was an Irish emigrant from

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from a "long line of Irish patriots". He traveled to the United States in 1870, entering in New York before settling in Louisville. He was a labor activist as well.Hanna, Hilton Edward, and Joseph Belsky. Picket and the Pen: The Pat Gorman Story--. American Institute of Social Science, 1960.
/ref> In 1970, he was awarded the Eugene V. Debs Award for industrial unionism by the Eugene V. Debs Foundation.

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1892 births 1980 deaths Amalgamated Meat Cutters people Activists from Louisville, Kentucky Trade unionists from Kentucky American trade union leaders United Food and Commercial Workers people {{Worker-activist-stub