U.S. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15231381&ft=1&f=1001
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That's quite a list Al!
1906: Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States.
1912: Elihu Root, Former Secretary of State.
1919: Thomas Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States.
1925: Charles Gates Dawes, Vice President of the United States.
1929: Frank Billings Kellogg, Former Secretary of State.
1931: Jane Adams, Sociologist.
1945: Cordell Hull, Former Secretary of State.
1946: Emily Greene Balch, Former Professor of History and Sociology; Honorary International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
1947: American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers). Washington, D.C. First official meeting 1672. (Shared with the Friends Service Council (The Quakers) in London, U.K. Founded in 1647.)
1950: Ralph Bunche, Professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1953: George Catlett Marshall, General President American Red Cross.
1962: Linus Carl Pauling, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
1964: Martin Luther King, Jr., Leader of Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
1965: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York, N.Y.
1970: Norman E. Borlaug, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico City.
1973: Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State, State Department. (Shared with Le Duc Tho, Democratic Republic of Vietnam.)
1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Boston, Mass.
1986: Elie Wiesel, Chairman, The President's Commission on the Holocaust.
1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Launched in 1992. Jody Williams, Putney, Vermont.
2002: Jimmy Carter, Former President of the United States.
2007: Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., Former Vice President of the United States. For efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. (Shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Founded in 1988.)
1906: Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States.
1912: Elihu Root, Former Secretary of State.
1919: Thomas Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States.
1925: Charles Gates Dawes, Vice President of the United States.
1929: Frank Billings Kellogg, Former Secretary of State.
1931: Jane Adams, Sociologist.
1945: Cordell Hull, Former Secretary of State.
1946: Emily Greene Balch, Former Professor of History and Sociology; Honorary International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
1947: American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers). Washington, D.C. First official meeting 1672. (Shared with the Friends Service Council (The Quakers) in London, U.K. Founded in 1647.)
1950: Ralph Bunche, Professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1953: George Catlett Marshall, General President American Red Cross.
1962: Linus Carl Pauling, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
1964: Martin Luther King, Jr., Leader of Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
1965: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York, N.Y.
1970: Norman E. Borlaug, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico City.
1973: Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State, State Department. (Shared with Le Duc Tho, Democratic Republic of Vietnam.)
1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Boston, Mass.
1986: Elie Wiesel, Chairman, The President's Commission on the Holocaust.
1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Launched in 1992. Jody Williams, Putney, Vermont.
2002: Jimmy Carter, Former President of the United States.
2007: Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., Former Vice President of the United States. For efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. (Shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Founded in 1988.)
