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What other US presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize
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Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peacce Prize award, but what other U.S. Presidents have won the award.
In 1906, Theodore Roosevel, the 26th U.S. President was the first sitting president to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the bloody 1905 war between two of the world's great powers, Japan and Russia. The result was the Treaty of Portsmouth signed by Russia and Japan on Sept. 5, 1905, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Woodrow Wilson was the second sitting President to win the nobel peace Prize award in 1919 in recognition of his Fourteen Points peace programme and work in achieving inclusion of the Covenant of the League of Nations in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War One. "The President succeeded in bringing a design for a fundamental law of humanity into present-day international politics," the Nobel Committee said.
Jimmy Carter is the only other United States President who has won the distinguished honor of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for what the Nobel prize committee said were "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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