Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1923
Number:8 - 1
 
Nominee:
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)
 
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.
 
Nominator:
Name:Fannie Fern Andrews
Gender:F
Profession:Member of the Commission of the International Peace Bureau
City:Boston
State:MA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Comments: Warren Harding died August 2, 1923.