Jane Addams - Nobel Peace Prize winner, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and head in woman suffrage and world peace

Jane Addams was the primary American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer declaration worker and founder of, Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher , sociologist, author, and head in woman suffrage and world peace. She was the most famous woman of the Progressive Era and helped turn the nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as the requirements of children, public health and world peace. She emphasize that women have a special duty to clean up their communities and make them better places to live, arguing they wanted the vote to be effective. Addams became a role model for middle class women who volunteered to uplift their community.

She is increasingly being known as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy. Throughout her life Addams was close to several women and was very good at eliciting the participation of women from different classes in Hull House's program. Her closest adult companion and friend was Ellen Gates Starr, who sustain Addams's work at Hull House, and with whom she mutual a romantic friendship. Together they possess a summer house in Bar Harbor, Maine. In 2007, a combined resolution of the Illinois General Assembly renamed the Northwest Tollway as the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway. Jane Addams House is a residence hall construct in 1947, at Connecticut College.

Date Of Birth	September 6, 1860
Place Of Birth	Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	a social and political activist, an author and lecturer, a community organizer, a public intellectual
Parents	John H. Addams, Sarah Weber
Date Of Died	May 21, 1935
Place Of Died	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter was the 39th President of the United States. The recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have got the Prize after leaving office. Carter created two new cabinet-level departments are the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He recognized a national energy policy. Carter powerfully emphasized human rights. He took office during a period of international stagflation, which persisted during his term. On January 20, 1981, minutes after Carter's term in office finished, the 52 United State. captives held at the U.S. embassy in Iran were released, ending the 444-day Iran prisoner crisis. After leaving office, Carter and his wife Rosalynn founded the Carter Center in 1982, a nongovernmental, not for profit association that works to advance human rights. He has traveled widely to conduct peace negotiations, observe elections, and advance disease avoidance and eradication in developing nations.

Born	October 1, 1924
Birth Place	Plains, Georgia
Birth name	James Earl Carter, Jr.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Rosalynn Smith Carter
Profession	Farmer, naval officer
Religion	Baptist

Woodrow Wilson

Born	December 28, 1856
Birth Place	Staunton, Virginia
Birth name	Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Ellen Axson Wilson Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
Profession	Academic
Religion	Presbyterianism
Died	February 3, 1924
Death Place	Washington, D.C.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was one of the 28th President of the United States. Wilson influenced a Democratic Congress to pass the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act and America's primary-ever federal progressive income tax in the Revenue Act of 1913. Narrowly re-elected in 1916, Wilson's second time centered on First World War. Wilson took personal control of conference with Germany, including the armistice. He issued his Fourteen Points, his view of a post-war world that could avoid a new terrible conflict. In 1919 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Theodore Roosevelt

Born	October 27, 1858
Birth Place	New York, New York
Political party	Republican (1897–1912) Progressive Party (1912–1916)
Spouse(s)	Alice Hathaway Lee (married 1880, died 1884) Edith Kermit Carow (married 1886)
Occupation	Statesman, author, historian, explorer, conservationist, civil servant
Religion	Dutch Reformed
Died	January 6, 1919
Death Place	Oyster Bay, New York

Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. He is famous for his energetic personality, variety of interests and achievements, management of the Progressive Movement, model of masculinity, and his "cowboy" image. Roosevelt was the force behind the end of the Panama Canal; he sent out the Great White Fleet to display American power, and he negotiated an end to the Russo-Japanese War, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Roosevelt was the first American to won the Nobel Peace Prize. Roosevelt embarked on a major journey to South America; the river on which he traveled now bears his name.

View this site : San Jose movers, Fashion news, Chicago movers