| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1931 |
| Number: | 18 - 1 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Arthur Henderson |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1863 |
| Year, Death: | 1935 |
| Profession: | Foreign Secretary (1929-1931). |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1934 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Ramsay MacDonald |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1866 |
| Year, Death: | 1937 |
| Profession: | Prime Minister (1924, 1929-31 and 1931-1935). |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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| Motivation: | Henderson and MacDonald were nominated for their contribution to the conclusion of a naval agreement in London April 22, 1930. The agreement furthered disarmament at sea.
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Nominator 1:
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| Name: | Richard Lindström |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Member of the Swedish parliament |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
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Nominator 2:
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| Name: | Allan Vougt |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Member of the Swedish parliament |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
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| Comments: |
Henderson was one of the chief organizers of the British Labour Party. In 1931 he was elected Chairman of the League of Nations Disarmament Conference.
MacDonald joined the Labour Party in 1894 and he gradually became a well known political writer. Socialism was the subject of most of his books, but he did not encourage revolution. In 1911 he became parliamentary leader of the Labour Party, and in 1924 he became the first Labour prime minister.
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