Nobel Peace Prize Presidents
President Carter speaking with visitors and friends after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. National Park Service The three Presidents who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize all have family ties to the state of Georgia. Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War, reached a Gentleman's Agreement on immigration with Japan, and sent the Great White Fleet on a goodwill tour of the world. His mother, Mittie Bulloch , was born in Hartford, Connecticut but was raised in Savannah, Georgia and then moved to Roswell, Georgia when she was five. Woodrow Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his work to bring peace to all nations but died without seeing the Leagues of Nations happen. Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia but spent the formative years of his childhood in Augusta, years that would affect him for the rest of his life. While living in Augusta Wilson experienced the hardships of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Jimmy Carter was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development. |
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The U. S. Department of Energy was created by Jimmy Carter in 1977. The agency emphasized reducing energy consumption, implementing conservation, and developing alternative energy technologies.