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American Nobel Peace Prize Winners
POSTED: 12:58 pm PDT October 10, 2007
UPDATED: 4:17 am PDT October 12, 2007
Twenty-two Americans have won the Nobel Prize for Peace since its introduction in 1901, including two standing presidents -- Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson -- and one former president, Jimmy Carter.
- 1906: President Theodore Roosevelt
- 1912: Former Secretary of State Elihu Root
- 1919: President Woodrow Wilson
- 1925: Vice President Charles Gates Dawes and U.K. Foreign Secretay Austen Chamberlain
- 1929: Former Secretary of State Frank Kellogg
- 1931: Sociologist Jane Addams and Columbia University President Nicholas Butler
- 1945: Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull
- 1946: Former history professor Emily Greene Balch and YMCA World Alliance President John Mott
- 1947: Friends Service Council and the American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)
- 1950: Former professor and Acting Mediator in Palestine Ralph Bunche
- 1953: "Marshall Plan" originator anf former Secretary of State and of Defense George Marshall
- 1962: Professor Linus Pauling
- 1964: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1970: Scientist Norman Borlaug
- 1973: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho
- 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- 1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines and its founder Jody Williams
- 2002: Former President Jimmy Carter
- 2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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