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2 unusual facts about John Lancaster Spalding


Coal Strike of 1902

The employers were willing to accept a union leader as the "eminent sociologist," so Roosevelt named E. E. Clark, head of the railway conductors' union, as the "eminent sociologist" and, after Catholics exerted pressure, added a sixth, Catholic bishop John Lancaster Spalding, and Commissioner Wright as the seventh member.

John Spalding

John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916), first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria (1877–1908)



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