The first U. S. citizen recognized for his contribution to world peace was Theodore Roosevelt, who as president, convened the summit conference in Portsmouth, NH that resulted in a brokered peace treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. The twentieth (and most recent) citizen of this country recognized as a Nobel Laureate for Peace is Al(bert) A. Gore, who joins Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Dawes as the trio of former VPs to win the Peace Prize. TR, unlike Dawes and Gore, also served as POTUS. TR is a member of the trio of POTUS Peace Prize winners: TR, Woodrow Wilson, and Jimmy Carter. Among the 20 U. S. Peace Laureates are two women: Jane Addams and Emily Balch. A reader(?) of this blog, armed with this information, can win bar bets galore over the weekend. BTW, the greatest number of officeholders who won the Peace Prize is found in the State Department. Five Secretaries of State have been recognized: Elihu Root, Frank B. Kellogg, Cordell Hull, George C. Marshall, and Henry Kissinger. If this is (fair & balanced) trivia, so be it.
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All Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 95 individuals and 20 organizations since 1901. (Comité International de la Croix Rouge was awarded the prize in 1917, 1944 and 1963; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was awarded the prize in 1954 and 1981.)
* 2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Albert (Al) Gore,
Jr., (USA.
* 2006 - Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
* 2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
* 2004 - Wangari Maathai
* 2003 - Shirin Ebadi
* 2002 - Jimmy Carter, USA.
* 2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan
* 2000 - Kim Dae-jung
* 1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières
* 1998 - John Hume, David Trimble
* 1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
* 1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
* 1995 - Joseph Rotblat
* 1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
* 1993 - Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk
* 1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum
* 1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi
* 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev
* 1989 - The 14th Dalai Lama
* 1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
* 1987 - Oscar Arias Sánchez
* 1986 - Elie Wiesel, USA.
* 1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
* 1984 - Desmond Tutu
* 1983 - Lech Walesa
* 1982 - Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
* 1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
* 1980 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
* 1979 - Mother Teresa
* 1978 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
* 1977 - Amnesty International
* 1976 - Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
* 1975 - Andrei Sakharov
* 1974 - Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato
* 1973- Henry Kissinger, USA.; Le Duc Tho, Democratic Republic of Viet
Nam. (Declined the prize.)
* 1972 - The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund
* 1971 - Willy Brandt
* 1970 - Norman Borlaug, USA.
* 1969 - International Labour Organization
* 1968 - René Cassin
* 1967 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to
the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1966 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1965 - United Nations Children's Fund
* 1964 - Martin Luther King, USA.
* 1963 - International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
* 1962 - Linus Pauling, USA.
* 1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld
* 1960 - Albert Lutuli
* 1959 - Philip Noel-Baker
* 1958 - Georges Pire
* 1957 - Lester Bowles Pearson
* 1956 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to
the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1955 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1954 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
* 1953 - George C. Marshall, USA.
* 1952 - Albert Schweitzer
* 1951 - Léon Jouhaux
* 1950 - Ralph Bunche, USA.
* 1949 - Lord Boyd Orr
* 1948 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to
the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1947 - Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee,
Washington. The society's first official meeting was held in 1672.
* 1946 - Emily Greene Balch, USA.; John R. Mott, USA.
* 1945 - Cordell Hull, USA.
* 1944 - International Committee of the Red Cross
* 1943 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to
the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to
the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to
the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to
the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1939 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to
the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1938 - Nansen International Office for Refugees
* 1937 - Robert Cecil
* 1936 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas
* 1935 - Carl von Ossietzky
* 1934 - Arthur Henderson
* 1933 - Sir Norman Angell
* 1932 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1931 - Jane Addams, USA.; Nicholas Murray Butler, USA.
* 1930 - Nathan Söderblom
* 1929 - Frank B. Kellogg, USA.
* 1928 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1927 - Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde
* 1926 - Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
* 1925 - Sir Austen Chamberlain; Charles G. Dawes, USA.
* 1924 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1923 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1922 - Fridtjof Nansen
* 1921 - Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange
* 1920 - Léon Bourgeois
* 1919 - Woodrow Wilson, USA.
* 1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1917 - International Committee of the Red Cross
* 1916 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1915 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1914 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1913 - Henri La Fontaine
* 1912 - Elihu Root, USA.
* 1911 - Tobias Asser, Alfred Fried
* 1910 - Permanent International Peace Bureau
* 1909 - Auguste Beernaert, Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant
* 1908 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer
* 1907 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault
* 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt, USA.
* 1905 - Bertha von Suttner
* 1904 - Institute of International Law
* 1903 - Randal Cremer
* 1902 - Élie Ducommun, Albert Gobat
* 1901 - Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy
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