| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1929 |
| Number: | 6 - 2 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Édouard Herriot |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1872 |
| Year, Death: | 1957 |
| Profession: | Mayor of Lyon (1905-1940). Member of parliament. Former Prime Minister. Author |
| City: | Lyon |
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Ramsay MacDonald |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1866 |
| Year, Death: | 1937 |
| Profession: | Member of the British parliament. Prime Minister 1924, 1929-31 and 1931-1935 |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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| Motivation: | Herriot was the leader of the French Radical Party from 1919, and he was Prime Minister 1924-1925 and 1926. He was nominated for his contribution to the Geneva Protocol during the assemblies of the League of Nations 1924-1925. Proponent of disarmament, international law and arbitration.
MacDonald joined the Labour Party in 1894 and he gradually became a well known political writer. Socialism was the subject of most of his books, but he did not encourage revolution. In 1911 he became parliamentary leader of the Labour Party, and in 1924 he became the first Labour prime minister. MacDonald presided over the negotiations on US Secretary of State Dawes' Plan for the payment of German war reparations 1924. He was also instrumental in the process that resulted in the Geneva Protocol on collective security, disarmament and compulsory arbitration. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | The Danish Inter-Parliamentary Group (Thorvald Stauning) |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Members of parliament |
| City: | Copenhagen |
| Country: | DENMARK (DK) |
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| Comments: |
MacDonald was also on the short list, but no new evaluation was requested. |
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