Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
The Nobel Peace Prize 1906
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Name: Theodore Roosevelt
Birth: 27 October 1858, New York, NY, USA
Death: 6 January 1919, Oyster Bay, NY, USA
Residence at the time of the award: USA
Role: Collaborator of various peace treaties, President of United States of America
Field: Negotiation
President, USA. International Peace Arbitrator, various treaties. Vigorous, businesslike. “We abhor bully, oppressor, in private or public life”. Conservationist, protected 230,000,000 acres of public land.
After camping in Yosemite National Park, “It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by man.”
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In 1919, at the age of sixty, sick with illness and grief regarding his youngest son Quentin’s death in France the previous year in World War I, he died in his sleep.