Theodore Roosevelt - Nobel Peace Prize — 1906
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Theodore Roosevelt

Prize
Nobel Peace Prize — 1906
for his role in bringing to an end the bloody war recently waged between two of the world's great powers, Japan and Russia
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
Italian, English, French, German
date of birth
10/27/1858
place of birth
Manhattan, New York, New York City
date of death
1/6/1919
place of death
Sagamore Hill
Lived
60 years
position held
  • Governor of New York
    • end time: 12/31/1900
    • start time: 1/1/1899
  • member of the New York State Assembly
    • start time: 1/1/1883
    • end time: 12/31/1884
  • Vice President of the United States
    • end time: 9/14/1901
    • start time: 3/4/1901
  • President of the United States
    • start time: 9/14/1901
    • end time: 3/4/1909
  • Assistant Secretary of the Navy
    • end time: 5/10/1898
    • start time: 4/19/1897
  • Governor-General of the Philippines
  • president
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1906
  • Phi Beta Kappa Society
  • Veterans of Foreign Wars
  • American Historical Association
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • Camp Fire Club
educated at
  • Friends Seminary
  • Columbia University
  • Harvard College
  • Columbia Law School
occupation
  • politician
  • historian
  • ornithologist
  • rancher
  • explorer
  • essayist
  • conservationist
  • autobiographer
  • diarist
  • statesperson
  • writer
  • naturalist
  • governor
  • jurist
  • scientific collector
work location
  • New York
  • Washington, D.C.
notable work
  • African game trails : an account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist
  • Hunting trips of a ranchman, sketches of sport on the northern cattle plains;
  • The wilderness hunter; an account of the big game of the United States and its chase with horse, hound, and rifle;
field of work
  • politics of the United States
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