Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1913
Number:23 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Edwin Doak Mead
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1849
Year, Death:1937
Profession:Editor, publisher and peace activist
University:American Peace League
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Lucia True Ames Mead
Gender:F
Year, Birth:1856
Year, Death:1936
Profession:Peace activist
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Motivation:Edwin Mead promoted international justice and peace. Mead and Edwin Ginn successfully managed to open a free peace academy in Boston (The International School of Peace). Mead continued to publish and distribute literature on peace. He also wrote about and lectured on the topic and in 1909 he became Director of the World Peace Foundation. Attended several international peace conferences. Lucia Mead rendered Edwin Mead great assistance in his peace work both through speeches and writings, and she attended most of the conferences and congresses her husband participated in. She was also a peace worker in her own right. President of the peace and arbitration department of the National Women Suffrage Association, vice-president of the American Peace Society and member of the Council of the World Peace Foundation.
 
Nominator:
Name:Samuel Train Dutton
Gender:M
Profession:Professor
University:Columbia University
City:New York
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)