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iographical sketches of
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Senator Richard Durbin
2006 Co-Recipient |
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Congressman Ray LaHood
2006 Co-Recipient |
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Harold Holzer
2005 Recipient |
| Harold Holzer is a former newspaper editor, professor, political campaign press secretary, and is among our nation's leading authorities on Civil War society and politics. Author of dozens of books on Abraham Lincoln, he has been profiled on C-SPAN's Booknotes, highlighting his career as a Civil War author, collector, and historical consultant. |
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Velma Cherwek
2004 Recipient |
| For her contributions to the evolution of the modern LGDC. For over 20 years she dedicated herself to keeping the Group alive by acting as Corresponding Secretary, dinner coordinator, and central contact for the group's activities. |
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Steven Lee Carson
2003 Recipient |
| International Lincoln lecturer, writer, editor and playwright; senior member in service on many Lincoln related boards and advisory committees. Chairman, White House Conference on Presidential Children. Steve's contributions during his term as president brought the LGDC into modern times financially, legally, and organizationally. |
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Hon. Frank Williams
2002 Recipient |
| Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, Chairman of The Lincoln Forum, Commissioner on the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, former President of the Abraham Lincoln Association and renown Lincoln lecturer and author. |
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Prof. Gabor Boritt
2001 Recipient |
| Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College; former Director of the Civil War Institute; renown author of such seminal works as Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream and The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory and History. Member, LGDC Board. |
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James Getty
2000 Recipient |
| One of America's leading Lincoln impersonators, he has dramatically brought the story of Lincoln to America at historical celebrations, on television, and at educational seminars. |
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Dr. Edward Steers
1999 Recipient |
| He has revolutionized the study of the Lincoln assassination in his widely praised classic work, Blood On the Moon and related works, noted Lincoln lecturer, former President of the LGDC, and he is the co-founder of the modern LGDC Lincolnian newsletter. |
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Edwin C. Bearss
1998 Recipient |
| Chief Historian of the National Park Service, Emeritus; battlefield lecturer with an encyclopedic knowledge of battlefields and personalities. At age 82 he continues to tirelessly lead regular tours through Civil War terrain, followed by his devoted "Iron Bladder Brigade." Chairman of the Board of the LGDC. |
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James O. Hall
1997 Recipient |
| Revered as a diligent and thorough research pioneer in the study of the Lincoln assassination; the research center and library at the Surratt House and Society in Clinton, Maryland, is named in his honor. He is co-author of the classic Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln. |
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