The previous fourteen Peter Francisco Awards were presented to: I) John F. Kennedy in 1959, at the time a United States Senator from Massachusetts and later (1960) President of the United States.
The Portuguese Continental Union of USA was founded a Fraternal Benefit Society on November 1, 1925, in Massachusetts with Headquarters in Boston and near ten thousand members in 71 local Lodges in the East Coast from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania until 2002.