Table:
Year | Laetare Medalist | Position | Year.1 | Laetare Medalist.1 | Position.1
1883 | John Gilmary Shea | Historian | 1949 | Irene Dunne Griffin | Actress
1884 | Patrick Charles Keely | Architect | 1950 | General Joseph L. Collins | Soldier
1885 | Eliza Allen Starr | Art Critic | 1951 | John Henry Phelan | Philanthropist
1886 | General John Newton | Engineer | 1952 | Thomas E. Murray | Member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
1887 | Edward Preuss | Publicist | 1953 | I.A. O'Shaughnessy | Philanthropist
1888 | Patrick V. Hickey | Founder and Editor of The Catholic Review | 1954 | Jefferson Caffery | Diplomat
1889 | Anna Hanson Dorsey | Novelist | 1955 | George Meany | Labor Leader
1890 | William J. Onahan | Organizer of the American Catholic Congress | 1956 | General Alfred M. Gruenther | Soldier
1891 | Daniel Dougherty | Orator | 1957 | Clare Boothe Luce | Diplomat
1892 | Henry F. Brownson | Philosopher and Author | 1958 | Frank M. Folsom | Industrialist
1893 | Patrick Donohue | Founder of the Boston Pilot | 1959 | Robert Daniel Murphy | Diplomat
1894 | Augustin Daly | Theatrical Producer | 1960 | George N. Shuster | Educator
1895 | Mary Anne Sadlier | Novelist | 1961 | John F. Kennedy | President of the United States
1896 | General William Starke Rosencrans | Soldier | 1962 | Francis J. Braceland | Psychiatrist
1897 | Thomas Addis Emmet | Physician | 1963 | Admiral George Whelan Anderson, Jr. | Chief of Naval Operations
1898 | Timothy Edward Howard | Jurist | 1964 | Phyllis McGinley | Poet
1899 | Mary Gwendolin Caldwell | Philanthropist | 1965 | Frederick D. Rossini | Scientist
1900 | John A. Creighton | Philanthropist | 1966 | Patrick F. & Patricia Caron Crowley | Founders of The Christian Movement
1901 | William Bourke Cockran | Orator | 1967 | J. Peter Grace | Industrialist
1902 | John Benjamin Murphy | Surgeon | 1968 | Robert Sargent Shriver | Diplomat
1903 | Charles Jerome Bonaparte | Lawyer | 1969 | William J. Brennan Jr. | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
1904 | Richard C. Kerens | Diplomat | 1970 | Dr. William B. Walsh | Physician
1905 | Thomas B. Fitzpatrick | Philanthropist | 1971 | Walter Kerr & Jean Kerr | Drama Critic and Author
1906 | Francis J. Quinlan | Physician | 1972 | Dorothy Day | Founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
1907 | Katherine Eleanor Conway | Journalist and Author | 1973 | Rev. John A. O'Brien | Author
1908 | James C. Monaghan | Economist | 1974 | James A. Farley | Business Executive and Former Postmaster General
1909 | Frances Tieran (Christian Reid) | Novelist | 1975 | Sr. Ann Ida Gannon, BMV | President of Mundelein College
1910 | Maurice Francis Egan | Author and Diplomat | 1976 | Paul Horgan | Author
1911 | Agnes Repplier | Author | 1977 | Mike Mansfield | Former Senate Majority Leader
1912 | Thomas M. Mulry | Philanthropist | 1978 | Msgr. John Tracy Ellis | Church Historian
1913 | Charles George Herbermann | Editor of the Catholic Encyclopedia | 1979 | Helen Hayes | Actress
1914 | Edward Douglass White | Chief Justice of the United States | 1980 | Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr. | Speaker of the House
1915 | Mary V. Merrick | Philanthropist | 1981 | Edmund Sixtus Muskie | Secretary of State
1916 | James Joseph Walsh | Physician and Author | 1982 | John Francis Cardinal Dearden | Archbishop Emeritus of Detroit
1917 | Admiral William Shepherd Benson | Chief of Naval Operations | 1983 | Edmund & Evelyn Stephan | Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees and his wife
1918 | Joseph Scott | Lawyer | 1984 | John T. Noonan, Jr. | Lawyer
1919 | George L. Duval | Philanthropist | 1985 | Guido Calabresi | Dean of the Yale Law School
1920 | Lawrence Francis Flick | Physician | 1986 | Thomas & Mary Elizabeth Carney | Chairman of the Board of Trustees and his wife
1921 | Elizabeth Nourse | Artist | 1987 | Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC | President of the University of Notre Dame
1922 | Charles Patrick Neill | Economist | 1988 | Eunice Kennedy Shriver | Founder & Chairwoman of the Special Olympics
1923 | Walter George Smith | Lawyer | 1989 | Walker Percy | Novelist
1924 | Charles Donagh Maginnis | Architect | 1990 | Sister Thea Bowman (posthumously) | Educator
1925 | Albert Francis Zahm | Scientist | 1991 | Corinne Lindy Boggs | Former Louisiana Congresswoman
1926 | Edward Nash Hurley | Businessman | 1992 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | U.S. Senator from New York
1927 | Margaret Anglin | Actress | 1993 | Donald R. Keough | Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees
1928 | John Johnson Spaulding | Lawyer | 1994 | Sidney Callahan | Educator and Journalist
1929 | Alfred Emmanuel Smith | Statesman | 1995 | Joseph Cardinal Bernardin | Archbishop of Chicago
1930 | Frederick Philip Kenkel | Publicist | 1996 | Sister Helen Prejean | Death Penalty Abolitionist
1931 | James J. Phelan | Businessman | 1997 | Rev. Virgilio Elizondo | Theologian and Activist
1932 | Stephen J. Maher | Physician | 1998 | Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino | Medical Ethicist and Educator
1933 | John McCormack | Artist | 1999 | Philip Gleason | Professor Emeritus of History, Notre Dame
1934 | Genevieve Garvan Brady | Philanthropist | 2000 | Andrew McKenna | Chairman of the Board of Trustees
1935 | Francis Hamilton Spearman | Novelist | 2001 | Msgr. George G. Higgins | Priest and Labor Activist
1936 | Richard Reid | Journalist and Lawyer | 2002 | Father John Smyth | Executive Director of Maryville Academy
1937 | Jeremiah D. M. Ford | Scholar | 2003 | Peter and Margaret O'Brien Steinfels | Editors of Commonweal
1938 | Irvin William Abell | Surgeon | 2004 | Father J. Bryan Hehir | President of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Boston
1939 | Josephine Van Dyke Brownson | Catechist | 2005 | Dr. Joseph E. Murray | Surgeon & Nobel Prize Winner
1940 | General Hugh Aloysius Drum | Soldier | 2006 | Dave Brubeck | Jazz Pianist
1941 | William Thomas Walsh | Journalist and Author | 2007 | Patrick McCartan | Chairman of the Board of Trustees
1942 | Helen Constance White | Author and Teacher | 2008 | Martin Sheen | Actor
1943 | Thomas Francis Woodlock | Editor | 2009 | NOT AWARDED (SEE BELOW) | 
1944 | Anne O'Hare McCormick | Journalist | 2010 | Dana Gioia | Former Chairman of National Endowment for the Arts
1945 | Gardiner Howland Shaw | Diplomat | 2011 | Sister Mary Scullion, R.S.M., & Joan McConnon | Social Advocates
1946 | Carlton J. H. Hayes | Historian and Diplomat | 2012 | Ken Hackett | Former President of Catholic Relief Services
1947 | William G. Bruce | Publisher and Civic Leader | 2013 | Sister Susanne Gallagher, S.P. / Sister Mary Therese Harrington, S.H. / Rev. James H. McCarthy | Founders of S.P.R.E.D. (Special Religious Education Development Network)
1948 | Frank C. Walker | Postmaster General and Civic Leader | 2014 | Kenneth R. Miller | Professor of Biology at Brown University

Question: how many times does philanthropist appear in the position column on this chart?
Answer: 9

Question: who won the medal after thomas e. murray in 1952?
Answer: I.A. O'Shaughnessy

Question: how many lawyers have won the award between 1883 and 2014?
Answer: 5

Question: how many laetare medalists were philantrohpists?
Answer: 2

Question: who has won this medal and the nobel prize as well?
Answer: Dr. Joseph E. Murray

Question: what are the total number of times soldier is listed as the position on this chart?
Answer: 4

Question: how many are or were journalists?
Answer: 5

Question: who was the previous winner before john henry phelan in 1951?
Answer: General Joseph L. Collins

Question: what is the name of the laetare medalist listed before edward preuss?
Answer: General John Newton

Question: what are the number of laetare medalist that held a diplomat position?
Answer: 8