Has a US president won the Nobel Prize? See past winners.

Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this story included an incorrect year for the end of WWI. The correct year is 1918.

While the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal was recently presented to President Donald Trump by its winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, he is not officially the recipient of the coveted award and will not join the long list of winners over the last century.

However, that does not mean a United States president has never won the prize, which is awarded by the Nobel Foundation annually "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses," according to the prize's website.

Four United States presidents and two vice presidents have won the award since 1901, most recently in 2009. Here's a look back at past winners from the Executive Office.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Nobel Peace Prize 1906

President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906, "for his role in bringing to an end the bloody war recently waged between two of the world's great powers, Japan and Russia," according to the Nobel Prize's website.

This referred to Roosevelt's role in negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War that took place in 1904-05.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Nobel Peace Prize 1919

Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919 "for his role as founder of the League of Nations." Wilson primarily created the League of Nations to promote peace following World War I, which ended in November 1918.

However, Wilson received the prize in 1920. According to the award's website, the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided that none of the nominations for the year met the criteria outlined in Alfred Nobel's will during the 1919 selection process. The foundation's statutes outline that the prize can therefore be reserved for the next year, which is when Wilson technically won.

Charles Dawes, Nobel Peace Prize 1925

Charles Dawes, the 30th vice president, won the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for “having contributed to reducing the tension between Germany and France after the First World War,” according to the Nobel Prize site.

His Dawes Plan helped address German reparations after WWI. It provided information and facts on Germany’s budget and resources, outlined methods needed to stabilize the currency, and suggested a schedule of payments on a sliding scale, the Nobel Prize said.

He received his award a year later in 1926.

Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize 2002

Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, over 20 years after leaving the presidency.

Carter won the award "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," according to the site.

The Chairman of the Nobel Committee added at the time that Carter "ought to have been awarded the Prize" as early as 1978 while he was serving as the 39th president for his successful mediation of the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel.

Al Gore Jr., Nobel Peace Prize 2007

Vice President Al Gore received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize jointly alongside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "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."

Elected vice president in 1992, Gore worked to "put the climate crisis on the political agenda," and was recognized by the Nobel Committee as "probably the single individual who has done most to rouse the public and the governments that action had to be taken to meet the climate challenge," according to the website.

Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize 2009

President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, less than a year after taking office as the 44th U.S. president, "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Obama is the most recent U.S. president or vice president to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

This included his support "in word and deed" for a world free of nuclear weapons, an emphasis on human rights and democracy, and the setting in motion of his plan to withdraw U.S. occupying forces from Iraq, according to the Nobel website.

(This story has been updated to correct an error.)

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