Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
Year: | 1931 |
Number: | 9 - 3 |
Nominee: |
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Name: | Nicholas Murray Butler |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1862 |
Year, Death: | 1947 |
Profession: | Professor of Philosophy. President of Columbia University. President of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. |
University: | Columbia University |
City: | New York |
State: | NY |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1931 | |
Motivation: | Butler advocated peace, international cooperation and arbitration. He supported the Briand-Kellogg Pact, and he promoted international understanding. Butler also assisted in the establishment of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, of which he was a trustee and later president (1925-45). |
Nominator: |
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Name: | Aristide Pierre Henri Briand |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1862 |
Year, Death: | 1932 |
Profession: | Former foreign minister. Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1926. |
City: | Paris |
Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
Comments: | Butler was on the short list, but no new evaluation was requested. |
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