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Ryan, (Michael) John Augustine

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Ryan, (Michael) John Augustine (1869-1945)

US Catholic priest and social reformer. Ryan's social activism included lobbying for the minimum wage for women and children in Wisconsin and Minnesota in 1913. He taught at various Catholic colleges, founded the Catholic Charities Review in 1917, and directed the National Catholic Welfare Council's social action department, 1920-45. He showed Catholic Americans a means of integrating Catholic principles of social justice into an industrial American society.
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