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  1. Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Arthur Henderson. The Nobel Peace Prize 1934. Born: 13 September 1863, Glasgow, Scotland. Died: 20 October 1935, London, United Kingdom. Residence at the time of the award: United Kingdom. Role: ex-Foreign Secretary; President, Disarmament Conference in 1932. Prize motivation: “for his untiring ...

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    In contrast to the vast majority of the Peace Prize Laureates before him, the winner in 1934 had neither upper-class origins nor university training. Arthur Henderson grew up in a working-class family in the Scottish city of Glasgow. Poverty made it impossible for him to complete elementary school, but thanks to participation in trade unions ...

  3. Biographical. Arthur Henderson (September 13, 1863-October 20, 1935) was born in Glasgow, the son of David Henderson, a manual worker. When his father died in 1872, leaving the family in poverty, Arthur left school to work in a photographer’s shop. Upon his mother’s remarriage the family moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where Arthur returned ...

  4. Arthur Henderson (13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935) was a British iron moulder and Labour politician. He was the first Labour cabinet minister, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934 and, uniquely, served three separate terms as Leader of the Labour Party in three different decades. He was popular among his colleagues, who called him "Uncle ...

  5. Oct 16, 2024 · Arthur Henderson (born September 13, 1863, Glasgow, Scotland—died October 20, 1935, London, England) was one of the chief organizers of the British Labour Party. He was Britain’s secretary of state for foreign affairs from June 1929 to August 1931 and won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1934. An iron molder at Robert Stephenson ’s locomotive ...

  6. Arthur Henderson (13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935) was a British iron moulder and Labour politician.He was the first Labour cabinet minister, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934 and, uniquely, served three separate terms as Leader of the Labour Party in three different decades.

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  8. The text is taken from Les Prix Nobel en 1934. 1. A preparatory committee for the Disarmament Conference, set up by the Council of the League of Nations, had been meeting since 1926 before the actual Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments convened on Feb. 2, 1932.

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