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The Congressional Gold Medal is the oldest and highest civilian award in the United States, alongside the Presidential Medal of Freedom. [1] It is bestowed by vote of the United States Congress , signed into law by the president.
The medals' status as official Congressional Gold Medals was unclear until confirmed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives in 2007. [15] Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands: March 22, 1982: P.L. 97-158, 96 Stat. 18–19: In recognition of the 1982 bicentennial anniversary of diplomatic and trade relations between the Netherlands and the ...
English: Picture of Congressional Gold Medal for Raoul Wallenberg from May 9, 2013, news release by U.S. Department of the Treasury, ...
The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden at the U.S. Capitol. Darden watched the ceremony from her ...
The House unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother ...
The U.S. Mint has historically produced only images of the people receiving the Congressional Gold Medal. Baseball greats Larry Doby Jr., Steve Gromek appear on unique Congressional Gold Medal ...
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Law enforcement officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 were honored Tuesday with Congressional Gold Medals, praised as “heroes” for securing democracy when they fought off a ...