Linna E. Bresette Biography
- Title:
- Secretary of the Social Action Department (SAD) of the National Catholic Welfare Conference
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Should the Government Allow Immigrants Who Are Here Illegally to Become US Citizens?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of Aug. 20, 2009
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Former Secretary, Social Action Department (SAD), National Catholic Welfare Conference, 1921-1951
- Recipient, Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Medal from Pope Pius XII, 1947
- State Factory Inspector, Kansas, 1913-1921
- Second Vice President and Auditing Committee Member, Fourth Annual Convention of the Governmental Labor Officials, Asheville, NC, Sep. 27, 1917
- Former Secretary-Treasurer, Industrial Welfare Commission of Kansas
- Former Member, Constitution Committee, Association of Governmental Labor Officials
- Co-founder, Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems
- Former teacher
- Recipient, Immaculata Medal for Distinguished Social Service, Conception College
- Education:
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- None found
- Other:
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- Was the subject of a Feb. 26, 1953 Catholics in Action comic strip
- Led a pilgrimage to Rome to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s May 15, 1891 letter on labor titled “Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor,” 1931
- Involved in writing minimum wage and child labor laws of Kansas
- Died on Feb. 25, 1960