| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1937 |
| Number: | 18 - 1 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Cordell Hull |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1871 |
| Year, Death: | 1955 |
| Profession: | Secretary of State (1933-44). |
| City: | Washington, DC |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1945 |
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| Motivation: | Hull was nominated for his efforts to improve relations between the USA and Latin America. He initiated the Montevideo Pan-American Conference in 1933 that ratified the principle of non-intervention in other nations' internal affairs. Hull conducted a liberal foreign policy that led to the Philippine Independence Act, the Treaty of Cuba and an act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930. He supported the League of Nations' policy during the Italian-Ethiopian conflict in 1935. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Nicholas Murray Butler |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1862 |
| Year, Death: | 1947 |
| Profession: | Professor. Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1931. |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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