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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: /articles/article/theodore_roosevelt_and_the_nobel_peace_prize13807/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: President Obama isn’t the first American president to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The first president, as well as the first American, to receive that coveted honor was a one-time member of the Montana Stock Grower’s Association. Theodore Roosevelt was also the first and only future president to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. Roosevelt was awarded the peace prize for successfully mediating the end to the bloody Russo – Japanese War. He received the Medal of Honor for leading his Rough Riders in their hell-for-leather assault on San Juan Hill.