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Home Town Cincinnati, Ohio
Last Address Former Governor Gilligan died at his home in Cincinnati, age 92. His body was donated to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
Major Honorary doctor of laws degree, U. Notre Dame
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Last Updated:Nov 5, 2013
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Other Memories In May of 1979 he received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Notre Dame in recognition of "his belief that government exists to serve those persons in society who are least able to speak for themselves."
Gilligan joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1979 as the Thomas and Alberta White Professor of Law, exulting in his inaugural lecture that "a tremendous opportunity lies before our University today, simply because under divine Providence it has achieved, at precisely this moment in time, a unique preeminence and influence in American life" and that Notre Dame could play an instrumental role in "bringing into being what Jacques Maritain described as 'a new humanism, a theocentric, more integral humanism which would consider man in all his natural grandeur and weakness, in the entirety of his wounded being inhabited by God, in the full reality of nature, sin and sainthood." Seven years later, appointed the first director of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Gilligan was able to provide conspicuous detail to Maritain's vision.