Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
Year: | 1923 |
Number: | 8 - 1 |
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Nominee:
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Name: | Warren Gamaliel Harding |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1865 |
Year, Death: | 1923 |
Profession: | President of the USA 1921-23 |
City: | Washington, DC |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Motivation: | President Harding had initiated the Washington Conference on Limitation of Armaments. The treaties on disarmament at sea adopted by the conference were later ratified by the US Senate. The nominator emphasized the treaties' importance in order to prevent war in Asia. |
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Nominator:
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Name: | Fannie Fern Andrews |
Gender: | F |
Profession: | Member of the Commission of the International Peace Bureau |
City: | Boston |
State: | MA |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Comments: |
Warren Harding died August 2, 1923. |
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