| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1939 |
| Number: | 3 - 1 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Carrie Chapman Catt |
| Gender: | F |
| Year, Birth: | 1859 |
| Year, Death: | 1947 |
| Profession: | Educator. Women's suffrage leader. |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Motivation: | Catt was president of the International Female Suffrage Alliance. She initiated the Women's Peace Party in Washington in 1915, and she was one of the delegates to the International Women's Peace Congress at The Hague in 1915. Catt was chairman of the Committee on the Cause and Cure of War 1925-1932. She worked to create greater understanding between persons from different countries. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Schuyler Wallace |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Professor of Political Science |
| University: | Columbia University |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Comments: |
An address signed by almost all leading women of the Norwegian-American community, including Maria Bang Hohn and Magnhild Schou, was enclosed. It is likely that the nomination was initiated by these women.
Wallace did not state why he wished to nominate Catt.
Catt had close political connections to the most prominent persons of the Democratic Party, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cordell Hull and Woodrow Wilson. She declined to run for Congress when American women won suffrage in 1919; as leader of a suffrage movement that included both Democrats and Republicans, she did not wish to be perceived as disloyal by running as candidate for the Democrarats. |
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