
Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
Year: | 1973 |
Number: | 114 - 0 |
Nominee: |
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Name: | Jeannette Rankin |
Gender: | F |
Year, Birth: | 1880 |
Year, Death: | 1973 |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
Motivation: | Jeannette Rankin was nominated for being the first woman to be elected to the United States congress, as a promoter of the cause of woman suffrage in the state of Washington and for opposing the Vietnam war. |
Nominator: |
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Name: | Mike Mansfield |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1903 |
Year, Death: | 2001 |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |