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List of Congressional Gold Medal recipients
| Recipient(s) |
Date of Approval |
Public Law |
| George Washington |
Mar. 25, 1776 |
Continental Congress |
| Major General Horatio Gates |
Nov. 4, 1777 |
Continental Congress |
| Major General Anthony Wayne |
July 26, 1779 |
Continental Congress |
| Major Henry Lee |
Sep. 24, 1779 |
Continental Congress |
| Brigadier General Daniel Morgan |
Mar. 9, 1781 |
Continental Congress |
| Major General Nathaniel Greene |
Oct. 29, 1781 |
Continental Congress |
| John Paul Jones |
Oct. 16, 1787 |
Continental Congress |
| Captain Thomas Truxtun |
Mar. 29, 1800 |
2 Stat. 87 |
| Commodore Edward Preble |
Mar. 3, 1805 |
2 Stat. 346-347 |
| Captain Isaac Hull, Captain Stephen Decatur, and Captain Jacob Jones |
Jan. 29, 1813 |
2 Stat. 830 |
| Captain William Bainbridge |
Mar. 3, 1813 |
2 Stat. 831 |
Captain Oliver Hazard Perry and
Captain Jesse D. Elliott |
Jan. 6, 1814 |
3 Stat. 141 |
| Lieutenant William Burrows and Lieutenant Edward McCall |
Jan. 6, 1814 |
3 Stat. 141-142 |
| Captain James Lawrence |
January 11, 1814 |
3 Stat. 142 |
| Captain Thomas MacDonough , Captain Robert Henley, and Lieutenant Stephen Cassin |
October 20, 1814 |
3 Stat. 245-246 |
| Captain Lewis Warrington |
October 21, 1814 |
3 Stat. 246 |
| Captain Johnson Blakely |
November 3, 1814 |
3 Stat. 246-247 |
| Major General Jacob Brown |
November 3, 1814 |
3 Stat. 247 |
| Major General
Winfield Scott |
November 3, 1814
March 9, 1848 |
3 Stat. 247
9 Stat. 333 |
| Brigadier General Eleazar Ripley ,
Brigadier General James Miller, and Major General Peter Porter |
November 3, 1814 |
3 Stat. 247 |
| Major General
Edmund Gaines |
November 3, 1814 |
3 Stat. 247 |
| Major General Alexander Macomb |
November 3, 1814 |
3 Stat. 247 |
| Major General
Andrew Jackson |
February 27, 1815 |
3 Stat. 249 |
| Captain Charles Stewart |
February 22, 1816 |
3 Stat. 341 |
| Captain James Biddle |
February 22, 1816 |
3 Stat. 341 |
Major General William Henry Harrison and
Governor Isaac Shelby |
April 4, 1818 |
3 Stat. 476 |
| Colonel
George Croghan |
February 13, 1835 |
4 Stat. 792 |
| Major General Zachary Taylor |
July 16, 1846
March 2, 1847 |
9 Stat. 111
9 Stat. 206 |
| Rescuers of the Officers and Crew of the
[[U.S. Brig Somers]] |
March 3, 1847 |
9 Stat. 208 |
| Commander Duncan Ingraham |
August 4, 1854 |
10 Stat. 594-595 |
| Frederick Rose |
May 11, 1858 |
11 Stat. 369 |
| Major General Ulysses S. Grant |
December 17, 1863 |
13 Stat. 399 |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt |
January 28, 1864 |
13 Stat. 401 |
| Captain Creighton,
Captain Low, and Captain Stouffer |
July 26, 1866 |
14 Stat. 365-366 |
| Cyrus Field |
March 2, 1867 |
14 Stat. 574 |
| George Peabody |
March 16, 1867 |
15 Stat. 20 |
| George Robinson |
March 1, 1871 |
16 Stat. 704 |
| Captain Jared Crandall and Others |
February 24, 1873 |
17 Stat. 638 |
| John Horn, Jr. |
June 20, 1874
April 28, 1904 |
18 Stat. 573
33 Stat. 1684-1685 |
| John F. Slater |
February 5, 1883 |
22 Stat. 636 |
| Joseph Francis |
August 27, 1888 |
25 Stat. 1249 |
| Chief Engineer George Wallace Melville and
Others |
September 30, 1890 |
26 Stat. 552-553 |
| First Lieutenant
Frank Newcomb |
May 3, 1900 |
31 Stat. 717 |
| First Lieutenant David Jarvis , Second Lieutenant
Ellsworth Bertholf and Dr. Samuel Call |
June 28, 1902 |
32 Stat. 492 |
| Wright brothers |
March 4, 1909 |
35 Stat. 1627 |
| Captain Arthur Henry Rostron |
July 6, 1912 |
37 Stat. 639 |
| Captain
Paul Kreibohm and Others |
March 19, 1914 |
38 Stat. 769 |
| Domicio da Gama , Romulo Naon ,
and Eduardo Suarez |
March 4, 1915 |
38 Stat. 1228 |
| Charles Lindbergh |
May 4, 1928 |
45 Stat. 490 |
| Lincoln Ellsworth, Roald Amundsen, and
Umberto Nobile |
May 29, 1928 |
45 Stat. 2026-2027 |
| Thomas Edison |
May 29, 1928 |
45 Stat. 1012 |
| First Successful Trans-Atlantic Flight |
February 9, 1929 |
45 Stat. 1158 |
| Major Walter Reed and Associates for Yellow
Fever Experimentations in Cuba |
February 28, 1929 |
45 Stat. 1409-1410 |
| Officers and Men of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition |
May 23, 1930 |
46 Stat. 379 |
| Lincoln Ellsworth |
June 16, 1936 |
49 Stat. 2324 |
| George Cohan |
June 29, 1936 |
49 Stat. 2371 |
| Mrs. Richard Aldrich and
Anna Bouligny |
June 20, 1938 |
52 Stat. 1365 |
| Howard Hughes |
August 7, 1939 |
53 Stat. 1525 |
| Reverend Francis Quinn |
August 10, 1939 |
53 Stat. 1533 |
| William Sinnott |
June 15, 1940 |
54 Stat. 1283 |
| Roland Boucher |
January 20, 1942 |
56 Stat. 1099-1100 |
| George Catlett Marshall , General of the Army, and Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King |
March 22, 1946 |
60 Stat. 1134-1135 |
| John J. Pershing, General of the Armies of
the United States |
August 7, 1946 |
60 Stat. 1297-1298 |
| Brigadier General William Mitchell |
August 8, 1946 |
60 Stat. 1319 |
| Vice President
Alben Barkley |
August 12, 1949 |
P.L. 81-221, 63 Stat. 599 |
| Irving Berlin |
July 16, 1954 |
P.L. 83-536, 68 Stat. A120 |
| Doctor Jonas Salk |
August 9, 1955 |
P.L. 84-297, 69 Stat. 589 |
| Surviving Veterans of the War Between the
States |
July 18, 1956 |
P.L. 84-730, 70 Stat. 577 |
| Rear Admiral
Hyman Rickover |
August 28, 1958 |
P.L. 85-826, 72 Stat. 985 |
| Doctor Robert Goddard |
September 16, 1959 |
P.L. 86-277, 73 Stat. 562-563 |
| Robert Frost |
September 13, 1960 |
P.L. 86-747, 74 Stat. 883 |
| Doctor Thomas Anthony Dooley III |
May 27, 1961 |
P.L. 87-42, 75 Stat. 87 |
| Bob Hope |
June 8, 1962 |
P.L. 87-478, 76 Stat. 93 |
| Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of
Representatives |
September 26, 1962 |
P.L. 87-478, 76 Stat. 605 |
| Douglas MacArthur, General of
the Army |
October 9, 1962 |
P.L. 87-760, 76 Stat. 760 |
| Walt Disney |
May 24, 1968 |
P.L. 90-316, 82 Stat. 130-131 |
| Sir
Winston Churchill |
May 7, 1969 |
P.L. 91-12, 83 Stat. 8-9 |
| Roberto Walker Clemente |
May 14, 1973 |
P.L. 93-33, 87 Stat. 71 |
| Marian Anderson |
March 8, 1977 |
P.L. 95-9, 91 Stat. 19 |
| Lieutenant General Ira Eaker |
October 10, 1978 |
P.L. 95-438, 92 Stat. 1060 |
| Robert Kennedy |
November 1, 1978 |
P.L. 95-560, 92 Stat. 2142 |
| John Wayne |
May 26, 1979 |
P.L. 96-15, 93 Stat. 32 |
| Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson , and Larry Newman |
June 13, 1979 |
P.L. 96-20, 93 Stat. 45 |
| Hubert Humphrey |
June 13, 1979 |
P.L. 96-91, 93 Stat. 46 |
| American Red Cross |
December 12, 1979 |
P.L. 96-138, 93 Stat. 1063 |
| Ambassador Kenneth Taylor |
March 6, 1980 |
P.L. 96-201, 94 Stat. 79 |
| Simon Wiesenthal |
March 17, 1980 |
P.L. 96-211, 94 Stat. 101 |
| Queen Beatrix I of the Netherlands |
March 22, 1982 |
P.L. 97-158, 96 Stat. 18-19 |
| Admiral Hyman George Rickover |
June 23, 1982 |
P.L. 97-201, 96 Stat. 126-127 |
| Fred Waring |
August 26, 1982 |
P.L. 97-246, 96 Stat. 315-316 |
| Joe Louis |
August 26, 1982 |
P.L. 97-246, 96 Stat. 315-316 |
| Louis L'Amour |
August 26, 1982 |
P.L. 97-246, 96 Stat. 315-316 |
| Leo Ryan |
November 18, 1983 |
P.L. 98-159, 97 Stat. 992 |
| Danny Thomas |
November 29, 1983 |
P.L. 98-172, 97 Stat. 1119-1120 |
| Harry Truman |
May 8, 1984 |
P.L. 98-278, 98 Stat. 173-175 |
| Lady Bird Johnson |
May 8, 1984 |
P.L. 98-278, 98 Stat. 173-175 |
| Elie Wiesel |
May 8, 1984 |
P.L. 98-278, 98 Stat. 173-175 |
| Roy Wilkins |
May 17, 1984 |
P.L. 98-285, 98 Stat. 186 |
| George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin |
August 9, 1985 |
P.L. 99-86, 99 Stat. 288-289 |
| Anatoly Shcharansky and Avital Shcharansky |
May 13, 1986 |
P.L. 99-298, 100 Stat. 432-433 |
| Harry Chapin |
May 20, 1986 |
P.L. 99-311, 100 Stat. 464 |
| Aaron Copland |
September 23, 1986 |
P.L. 99-418, Stat. 952-953 |
| Mary Lasker |
December 24, 1987 |
P.L. 100-210, 101 Stat. 1441 |
| Jesse Owens |
September 20, 1988 |
P.L. 100-437, 102 Stat. 1717 |
| Andrew Wyeth |
November 9, 1988 |
P.L. 100-639, 102 Stat.
3331-3332 |
| Laurence Rockefeller |
May 17, 1990 |
P.L. 101-296, 104 Stat. 197-199 |
| General Matthew Ridgeway |
November 5, 1990 |
P.L. 101-510, 104 Stat. 1720-1721 |
| General H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
April 23, 1991 |
P.L. 102-32; 105 Stat. 175-176 |
| General Colin Powell |
April 23, 1991 |
P.L. 102-33; 105 Stat. 177-178 |
| Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson |
November 2, 1994 |
P.L. 103-457, 108 Stat. 4799-4800 |
| Ruth Graham and Billy Graham |
February 13, 1996 |
P.L. 104-111, 110 Stat. 772-773 |
| Frank Sinatra |
May 14, 1997 |
P.L. 105-14, 111 Stat. 32-33 |
| Mother Teresa of Calcutta |
June 2, 1997 |
P.L. 105-16, 111 Stat. 35-36 |
| Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew |
October 6, 1997 |
P.L. 105-51, 111 Stat. 117-1171 |
| Nelson Mandela |
July 29, 1998 |
P.L. 105-215, 112 Stat. 895-896 |
| Little Rock Nine |
October 21, 1998 |
P.L. 105-277, 112 Stat. 2681-597 |
| Gerald Ford and Betty Ford |
October 21, 1998 |
P.L. 105-277, 112 Stat. 2681-598 |
| Rosa Parks |
May 4, 1999 |
P.L. 106-26, 113 Stat. 50-51 |
| Father
Theodore Hesburgh |
December 9, 1999 |
P.L. 106-153, 113 Stat. 1733-1734 |
| John Cardinal O'Connor |
March 3, 2000 |
P.L. 106-175, 114 Stat. 20-21 |
| Charles Schulz |
June 20, 2000 |
P.L. 106-225, 114 Stat.
457-458 |
| Pope John Paul II |
July 27, 2000 |
P.L. 106-250, 114 Stat.
622-623 |
| Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan |
July 27, 2000 |
P.L. 106-251, 114 Stat.
624-625 |
| Navajo Code Talkers |
December 21, 2000 |
P.L. 106-554, 114 Stat.
2763 |
| General Henry Shelton |
January 16, 2002 |
P.L. 107-127, 115 Stat.
2405-2406 |
| British Prime Minister Tony Blair |
July 18, 2003 |
P.L. 108-60, 117, Stat. 862-863 |
| Jackie Robinson |
October 29, 2003 |
P.L. 108-101, 117 Stat. 1195-1197 |
| Dr.
Dorothy Height |
December 6,
2003 |
P. L. 108-162, 117 Stat. 2017 |
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