2007-04-11 09:51:24 · 5 answers · asked by Miriam F 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
TEDDY ROOSEVELT 26th president of the United States (1901-09) and writer, explorer, and soldier, who expanded the powers of the presidency and of the federal government on the side of public interest in conflicts between big business and big labour. He also engaged the nation in affairs of Asia and Europe. He won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906 for mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War, and he promoted the construction of the Panama Canal (1904-14).
2007-04-12 00:32:05 · answer #1 · answered by Retired 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize for his negotiations at the peace table discussing the conditions to settle the peace after Japan defeated the Russians in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905.
2007-04-11 17:46:43 · answer #2 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theodore Roosevelt. See:http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1906/roosevelt-bio.html
2007-04-11 16:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by kt 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
It was Teddy Roosevelt. Whether he won a Nobel Prize I dunno. He brokered the Treaty of Portsmouth, on the Presidential Yacht, the Sequoia, in the U.S., ending the Russo-Japanese War.
2007-04-11 17:34:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jimmy Carter?
2007-04-11 16:55:07 · answer #5 · answered by dewhatulike 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋