This is a list of Americans who have won the Nobel Peace prize. There were no Peace Prizes awarded these years: 1914-1918; 1923-24; 1939-1943; 1948; 1956; 1966-67; 1972.
Al Gore - 2007
Vice President of the United States (1993-2001)Joint prize for peace with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
"for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"
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Jimmy Carter - 2002
39th President of the United States (1977-1981)"for 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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Jody Williams - 1997
Founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), 1992"for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines"
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Henry A. Kissinger - 1973
56th Secretary of State of the United States from 1973 to 1977.Joint prize with Le Duc Tho, Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
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Norman E. Borlaug - 1970
Director, International Wheat Improvement Program, International Maize and Wheat Improvement CenterNobel Details
George Catlett Marshall - 1953
General President, American Red Cross; ex-Secretary of State and of Defense; Originator of "Marshall Plan"Nobel Details
