James J. Horgan

Who is James J. Horgan?

James J. Horgan, PhD was a history professor at St. Leo College in San Antonio, Florida for 35 years, a historical society president, a Florida Historical Society board member, a prolific author and an NAACP chapter founder. He is listed as a Great Floridian. He was head of the History Department at Saint Leo College from the 1960s through the mid 1990s until just before his death due to cancer. Dr Horgan was loved and cherished as professor, friend, neighbor, intellectual, Civil Rights leader and philanthropist.

Horgan authored "Pioneer College: The Centennial History of Saint Leo College, Saint Leo Abbey, and Holy Name Priory", chronicling with insightful anecdotes and personal relationship details, the history of the founding of Saint Leo in 1889 as a boys' preparatory school and its evolution over the following century to college status.