Patrick E. Gorman | |
Office1: | 3rd International Secretary-Treasurer of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America |
Term Start1: | 1942 |
Term End1: | 1976 |
Predecessor1: | Dennis Lane |
Successor1: | Samuel J. Talarico |
Office2: | President of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America |
Leader2: | Dennis Lane |
Predecessor2: | Cornelius J. Hayes |
Successor2: | Earl Jimerson |
Term Start2: | 1923 |
Term End2: | 1946 |
Occupation: | Trade unionist |
Nationality: | American |
Patrick Emmet "Pat" Gorman (November 27, 1892 – 1980) was an American lawyer and trade unionist affiliated with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. 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.[1]
His papers are held at the Chicago History Museum.
Gorman was born the youngest of 10 sons in a family of 11 children in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Maurice Gorman born in 1840, was an Irish emigrant from Clonmel, County Tipperary 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.[2] In 1970, he was awarded the Eugene V. Debs Award for industrial unionism by the Eugene V. Debs Foundation.