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The Liberty Medal is an annual award administered by the National Constitution Center (NCC) of the United States to recognize leadership in the pursuit of freedom. It was founded by the Philadelphia Foundation. In 2006 an agreement was made with the National Constitution Center (NCC) that the NCC would take over the organizing, selecting and ...
Medal of Honor John Joseph McVeigh (September 26, 1921 – August 29, 1944) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor —for his actions during the Battle for Brest in World War II .
On July 4, 2003, the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia awarded O'Connor the Liberty Medal. In her acceptance speech she stated, "one of our greatest judges, Learned Hand, explained: 'Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.'
Before 1963, the Medal of Honor could be received for actions not involving direct combat with enemy or opposing foreign forces and 193 men earned the medal in this way. [25] Most of these medals were presented to members of the United States Navy for rescuing or attempting to rescue someone from drowning. [ 25 ]
He was the first recipient of the Liberty Medal, on 4 July 1989 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [4] and that same year received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. [5] He is the third foreigner and the first non-head-of-state to have addressed a joint session of the United States Congress (15 November 1989). [3]
Bill Clinton presented Mandela with the Philadelphia Liberty Medal on 4 July 1993. Received Gleitsman Foundation International Activist Award, Johannesburg, 12 May; Received Philadelphia Liberty Medal. Presented by President of the United States Bill Clinton, Philadelphia, US, 4 July; Honorary Degree conferred, Clark Atlanta University, 10 July
In 1998, he was named chair of the Philadelphia Foundation, which at that time awarded the Philadelphia Liberty Medal. He also was on the board of Aria Health, which operates three hospitals in the Philadelphia region, and the Philadelphia Zoo. [5] He died of a heart attack in Loblolly Bay on a vacation to the British Virgin Islands in 2013.
Daub is the first sculptor since Daniel Chester French, in 1919, to have sculpted more than one medal for the American Numismatic Society. [9] Notable medals Statue of Liberty Medal, American Numismatic Society 1986; Philadelphia Liberty Medal, 1986; Helsinki delegation medal, FIDEM convention 1991