John Richard Cavanaugh (June 10, 1929 – July 26, 2007)[citation needed] was an American priest, teacher, and scholar.
After graduating from Aquinas Institute of Rochester in 1946, he entered seminary studies for the Congregation of St.
Both his Master's thesis and his doctoral dissertation were studies of certain features of St. Thomas More's writings.
[1][3] In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Cavanaugh enjoyed playing bagpipes, an activity he had to give up when he developed heart problems in 1980.
[3] A bronze statue of Cavanaugh was erected on the east side of the Fisher campus in his honor.