Patrick E. Gorman

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.

Patrick E. Gorman
3rd International Secretary-Treasurer of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
In office 1942–1976
Preceded by	Dennis Lane
Succeeded by	Samuel J. Talarico
President of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
In office 1923–1946
Leader	Dennis Lane
Preceded by	Cornelius J. Hayes
Succeeded by	Earl Jimerson
Personal details
Nationality	American
Occupation	Trade unionist

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.

Personal

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.