| 1 | Name: | Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh | |
| Institution: | University of Notre Dame | ||
| Year Elected: | 1974 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1917 | ||
| Death Date: | February 26, 2015 | ||
The Rev. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC was a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross and President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. He served the longest tenure (1952-87) of a president in the university's history and is credited with building the institution to its present position. As a humanitarian, Rev. Hesburgh participated effectively in many national and international organizations. He served as a member of the United States Civil Rights Commission from 1957 and as Chairman from 1969-72, and he had been actively involved on issues including peaceful uses of atomic energy; campus unrest; treatment of Vietnam offenders; and Third World development and immigration reform, to name only a few. He had been an endorser of the Genocide Intervention Network. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Rev. Hesburgh was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1964, and the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor in 2000. He has published three books as well as an autobiography entitled God, Country, Notre Dame (1990). He died February 26, 2015, at the age of 97, on the university campus in South Bend, Indiana. | |||