On This Day In History……
On this day in history…November 1st, 1878 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas of Argentina was born. Carlos Saavedra Lamas was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He was born in Buenos Aires and was an outstanding student who received his doctorate in laws from the University of Buenos Aires, and then began a career as a teacher of law and sociology at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, eventually rising to the position of professor at Buenos Aires University. He played a very important role in Argentinian education. His political career began in 1906 and he began to take more important roles, including two terms in the Argentinian parliament beginning in 1908, where his interests were mainly in foreign affairs, sometimes the UN. In 1915, he became Minister for Justice and Education. The achievement for which he received the Nobel Prize was as Argentina’s foreign minister, which he was from 1932 to 1938 , he mediated a treaty that effectively ended the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia. In 1936 he was elected President of the Assembly of the League of Nations.
