United States
Jane Addams
1860–1935 Chairman, Woman's Peace Party; president, International Congress of Women, 1915
Born in Cedarville, Illinois, Addams co-founded Hull House in Chicago in 1889, a settlement house serving poor, largely immigrant families. In January 1915 she became national chairman of the Woman's Peace Party, and in April she presided over the International Congress of Women at The Hague, which drew over a thousand women from 12 countries. Her opposition to the war brought attacks in the press and expulsion from the Daughters of the American Revolution, though she worked as an assistant to Herbert Hoover in providing food relief to women and children of the enemy nations. She led the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom until 1929 and shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. She died on 21 May 1935.